Court Opinion

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Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-03-06 16:01:23.709523+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:10.806267
License: Public Domain

Case: 23-118     Document: 28     Page: 1   Filed: 03/06/2023

          NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
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    In re: PATENT QUALITY ASSURANCE LLC,
                      Petitioner
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                         2023-118
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   On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States
Patent and Trademark Office in No. IPR2021-01229.
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               ON PETITION AND MOTION
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      Before DYK, REYNA, and CHEN, Circuit Judges.
DYK, Circuit Judge.
                        ORDER
     Patent Quality Assurance LLC (PQA) moves to volun-
tarily dismiss its petition for a writ of mandamus “with the
following terms: PQA bears costs and each Party bears its
own fees.” ECF No. 26 at 3. PQA states that the Director
of the United States Patent and Trademark Office “does
not oppose the motion to dismiss the petition and to bear
its own costs and fees” and that VLSI Technology LLC
“does not oppose PQA’s dismissal but respectfully submits
that PQA should be ordered to pay VLSI’s fees and costs.”
Id.
    Upon consideration thereof,
Case: 23-118    Document: 28   Page: 2   Filed: 03/06/2023

2                     IN RE: PATENT QUALITY ASSURANCE LLC

    IT IS ORDERED THAT:
    The motion is granted. The petition is dismissed. PQA
shall bear costs. Each side shall bear its own fees.
                                 FOR THE COURT

March 6, 2023                    /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
    Date                         Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court