Court Opinion

ID: 4666750
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-03-11 16:00:55.857282+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:02:51.487161
License: Public Domain

Case: 20-1699    Document: 67           Page: 1       Filed: 03/11/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                    UNILOC 2017 LLC,
                        Appellant

                                  v.

                         APPLE INC.,
                           Appellee

   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
             ______________________

                        2020-1699
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2018-
 00289.

           -------------------------------------------------

                    UNILOC 2017 LLC,
                        Appellant

                                  v.
Case: 20-1699   Document: 67    Page: 2    Filed: 03/11/2021

   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
             ______________________

                       2020-1801
                 ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2018-
 01664.
                  ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________

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

    ABIGAIL COLELLA, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP,
 New York, NY, argued for appellee. Also represented by
 MELANIE L. BOSTWICK, MARK S. DAVIES, Washington, DC.

    PETER JOHN SAWERT, Office of the Solicitor, United
 States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, ar-
 gued for intervenor. Also represented by MAI-TRANG DUC
 DANG, THOMAS W. KRAUSE, WILLIAM LAMARCA, FARHEENA
 YASMEEN RASHEED.
                  ______________________

 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is
Case: 20-1699     Document: 67   Page: 3    Filed: 03/11/2021

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

        March 11, 2021           /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
            Date                 Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court