Court Opinion

ID: 4177005
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-06-13 15:05:13.120956+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:56:34.939737
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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 GARMIN INTERNATIONAL, INC., GARMIN USA,
       INC., GARMIN CORPORATION,
                 Appellants

                          v.

     INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION,
                 Appellee

       NAVICO INC., NAVICO HOLDING AS,
                   Intervenors
             ______________________

                     2016-2584
               ______________________

   Appeal from the United States International Trade
Commission in Investigation No. 337-TA-921.
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               Decided: June 13, 2017
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   NICHOLAS P. GROOMBRIDGE, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, argued for
appellants. Also represented by JENNIFER H. WU,
JENNIFER DIANE CIELUCH; DAVID J. BALL, JR., DAVID K.
STARK, Washington, DC.
2                         GARMIN INTERNATIONAL, INC.   v. ITC

    MEGAN MICHELE VALENTINE, Office of General Coun-
sel, United States International Trade Commission,
Washington, DC, argued for appellee. Also represented by
DOMINIC L. BIANCHI, WAYNE W. HERRINGTON, SIDNEY A.
ROSENZWEIG.

   KIRK T. BRADLEY, Alston & Bird LLP, Charlotte, NC,
argued for intervenors. Also represented by MATTHEW S.
STEVENS, CHRISTOPHER CHARLES ZIEGLER.
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     Before PROST, Chief Judge, DYK, and REYNA, Circuit
                         Judges.
REYNA, Circuit Judge.

    In one of three appeals from a Section 337 investiga-
tion, Garmin International, Inc., Garmin USA, Inc., and
Garmin Corporation (collectively, “Garmin”) appeal from
a Modified Limited Exclusion Order (“Modified Order”) of
the United States International Trade Commission
(“Commission”) prohibiting entry into the United States of
products and components of products infringing various
claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,305,840 (“’840 patent”) and
U.S. Patent No. 8,605,550 (“’550 patent”).

    Our decision today in a related case, Garmin Interna-
tional, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, No. 16-
1572, reverses the Commission’s finding of validity and
finds all of the patent claims referenced by the Modified
Order invalid as obvious over the prior art. Because we
have already reversed the Commission’s underlying
decision, we dismiss this appeal as moot.
                        DISMISSED
                          COSTS
    No costs.