Court Opinion

ID: 4685378
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-05-10 15:00:59.082116+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:04:27.707362
License: Public Domain

Case: 20-1306   Document: 93     Page: 1   Filed: 05/10/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

                  UNILOC 2017 LLC,
                      Appellant

                            v.

                      APPLE INC.,
                     Cross-Appellant

          HTC CORP., HTC AMERICA, INC.,
                     Appellees

   ANDREW HIRSHFELD, PERFORMING THE
    FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE UNDER
       SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR
 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DIRECTOR OF
 THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK
                   OFFICE,
                   Intervenor
             ______________________

            2020-1306, 2020-1317, 2020-1326
                ______________________

     Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. IPR2018-
 00424, IPR2018-01028, IPR2018-01631, IPR2018-01653.
                  ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________
Case: 20-1306     Document: 93   Page: 2    Filed: 05/10/2021

        JEFFREY A. STEPHENS, Etheridge Law Group, South-
 lake, TX, argued for appellant. Also represented by JAMES
 ETHERIDGE, RYAN S. LOVELESS, BRETT MANGRUM.

     ELIZABETH MOULTON, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
 LLP, Menlo Park, CA, argued for cross-appellant and ap-
 pellees. Cross-appellant also represented by MELANIE L.
 BOSTWICK, BENJAMIN PAUL CHAGNON, MARK S. DAVIES,
 Washington, DC.

    FRED WILLIAMS, Williams Simons & Landis PLLC,
 Austin, TX, for appellees. Also represented by TODD ERIC
 LANDIS, Dallas, TX.

     ROBERT MCBRIDE, Office of the Solicitor, United States
 Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, for interve-
 nor. Also represented by THOMAS W. KRAUSE, FARHEENA
 YASMEEN RASHEED, MOLLY R. SILFEN.
                 ______________________

 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

     PER CURIAM (DYK, MAYER, and HUGHES, Circuit
 Judges).
                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

         May 10, 2021            /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
            Date                 Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court