Court Opinion

ID: 2673155
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-05-10 00:02:10.869455+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:34:17.909928
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

      ACTELION PHARMACEUTICALS, LTD.,
              Plaintiff-Appellant,

                            v.

 MICHELLE K. LEE, Deputy Director, U.S. Patent
 and Trademark Office, Under Secretary of Com-
        merce for Intellectual Property,
               Defendant-Appellee.
            ______________________

                       2014-1086
                 ______________________

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
District of Columbia in No. 1:10-cv-01145-RJL, Judge
Richard J. Leon.
                 ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________

   THOMAS HOXIE, Hoxie & Associates, LLC, of Millburn,
New Jersey, argued for plaintiff-appellant.

    ABBY C. WRIGHT, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Divi-
sion, United States Department of Justice, of Washington,
DC, argued for defendant-appellee. With her on the brief
were STUART F. DELERY, Assistant Attorney General,
RONALD C. MACHEN, JR., SCOTT MCINTOSH, and DANA
KAERSVANG, Attorneys. Of counsel on the brief were
NATHAN K. KELLEY, Deputy General Counsel for Intellec-
tual Property Law and Solicitor, MICHAEL S. FORMAN and
BRIAN T. RACILLA, Associate Solicitor, United States
Patent and Trademark Office, of Alexandria, Virginia.
                ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

  May 9, 2014                      /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
   Date                           Daniel E. O’Toole
                                  Clerk of Court