Court Opinion

ID: 4204690
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-09-20 15:02:00.710015+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:09:53.003645
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
                ______________________

             NFC TECHNOLOGY, LLC,
                    Appellant

                           v.

JOSEPH MATAL, PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS
 AND DUTIES OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF
 COMMERCE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
AND DIRECTOR, U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK
                 OFFICE,
                 Intervenor
           ______________________

                      2016-1809
                ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2014-
01199.
                 ______________________

                     JUDGMENT
                ______________________

   JON WRIGHT, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, PLLC,
Washington, DC, argued for appellant. Also represented
by ADAM LAROCK, BRIAN LEE; ROBERT AUCHTER, McKool
Smith, P.C., Washington, DC.
    BENJAMIN T. HICKMAN, Office of the Solicitor, United
States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA,
argued for intervenor Joseph Matal. Also represented by
NATHAN K. KELLEY, THOMAS W. KRAUSE, JOSEPH GERARD
PICCOLO, SCOTT WEIDENFELLER.
                 ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

 September 20, 2017              /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
        Date                     Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court