Court Opinion

ID: 9383881
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-03-31 15:01:04.060686+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:48.821297
License: Public Domain

Case: 23-1281     Document: 16    Page: 1    Filed: 03/27/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

           In re: AMO DEVELOPMENT, LLC,
                         Appellant
                  ______________________

                        2023-1470
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2021-
 00856.
            -------------------------------------------------

    ALCON INC., ALCON VISION, LLC, ALCON
  LABORATORIES, INC., ALCON RESEARCH, LLC,
                  Appellants

                             v.

                AMO DEVELOPMENT, LLC,
                         Appellee
                  ______________________

 2023-1281, 2023-1282, 2023-1284, 2023-1286, 2023-1287,
 2023-1288, 2023-1289, 2023-1290, 2023-1291, 2023-1292,
                 2023-1293, 2023-1294
                ______________________

     Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. IPR2021-
 00817, IPR2021-00823, IPR2021-00824, IPR2021-00825,
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 2                              IN RE: AMO DEVELOPMENT, LLC

 IPR2021-00835,      IPR2021-00839,     IPR2021-00840,
 IPR2021-00841,      IPR2021-00853,     IPR2021-00856,
 IPR2021-00858, and IPR2021-00862.
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                      ON MOTION
                  ______________________

 Before WALLACH, Circuit Judge.
                         ORDER
     The court construes the parties’ notice of agreement,
 ECF No. 15 in Appeal No. 2023-1281, as a joint motion to
 dismiss Appeal Nos. 2023-1281, -1282, -1284, -1286, -1287,
 ‑1288, -1289, -1290, -1291, -1292, -1293, and -1294, pursu-
 ant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 42(b), and for
 Alcon Inc., Alcon Vision, LLC, Alcon Laboratories, Inc., and
 Alcon Research, LLC to withdraw from Appeal
 No. 2023-1470.
     Upon consideration thereof,
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 IN RE: AMO DEVELOPMENT, LLC                                3

     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The motion is granted. The appeals are deconsoli-
 dated to the extent that Appeal Nos. 2023-1281, -1282,
 -1284, ‑1286, -1287, -1288, -1289, -1290, -1291, -1292,
 -1293, and -1294 are dismissed, and the official captions
 and the short caption for Appeal No. 2023-1470 are revised
 as reflected above.
     (2) Each party shall bear its own costs relative to the
 dismissed appeals.
     (3) The briefing schedule for Appeal No. 2023-1470 is
 stayed.
     (4) Within 30 days from the date of filing of this order,
 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is
 directed to inform this court whether it intends to inter-
 vene in Appeal No. 2023-1470.
     (5) If the PTO elects to participate as intervenor in Ap-
 peal No. 2023-1470, its docketing statement is due within
 14 days of the date of filing of its notice of intervention.
                                    FOR THE COURT

 March 27, 2023                     /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
     Date                           Peter R. Marksteiner
                                    Clerk of Court

 ISSUED AS A MANDATE (as to Appeal Nos. 2023-1281,
 ‑1282, -1284, -1286, -1287, -1288, -1289, -1290, ‑1291,
 ‑1292, ‑1293, and -1294 only): March 27, 2023

 cc: United States Patent and Trademark Office