Court Opinion

ID: 616990
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2011-11-10 16:08:23+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:59:31.143069
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NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
             ______________________

               OLE K. NILSSEN,
                   Plaintiff,

                      and

          GEO FOUNDATION, LTD.,
             Plaintiff-Appellant.

                        v.

          WAL-MART STORES, INC.,
             Defendant-Appellee,

                      and

        COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP.,
            Defendant-Appellee.

                      and

   MENARD, INC., ACE HARDWARE CORP.,
 TRUSERV CORPORATION, AND HOME DEPOT,
                   INC.,
                Defendants,

                      and

       LOWE’S HOME CENTERS, INC.,
            Defendant-Appellee.

                      and

            IKEA ILLINOIS, LLC.,
              Defendant-Appellee,

              ___________________

                   2010-1139
             ______________________
   Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois in No. 04-CV-5363, Judge
Robert W. Gettleman.
                ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
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    LELAND W. HUTCHINSON, JR., Freeborn & Peters, LLP,
of Chicago, Illinois, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With
him on the brief was JONATHAN HILL.

     ANTHONY J. FITZPATRICK, Duane Morris, LLP, of
Boston, Massachusetts, argued for all defendants-
appellees. With him on the brief was CHRISTOPHER S.
KROON for Costco Wholesale Corporation. Also on the
brief were GARY W. SMITH, Posternak Blankstein & Lund,
LLP, of Boston, Massachusetts, for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.;
KIMBALL R. ANDERSON, and KATHLEEN B. BARRY, Winston
& Strawn, LLP, of Chicago, Illinois, for Lowes’s Home
Centers, Inc., and BUREDEN J. WARREN, McDermott Will
& Emery, LLP, of Washington, DC, for IKEA, Illinois,
LLC. Of counsel was MARGARET M. DUNCAN, for IKEA,
Illinois, LLC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (LOURIE, LINN, and PROST, Circuit
Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                       ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

November 10, 2011          /s/ Jan Horbaly
    Date                       Jan Horbaly
                                  Clerk