Court Opinion

ID: 9910806
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-12-18 17:01:15.842035+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:54:32.795508
License: Public Domain

Case: 23-1055    Document: 25      Page: 1    Filed: 12/18/2023

            NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                   ______________________

                THORNE RESEARCH, INC.,
                       Appellant

                              v.

       TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE,
                     Appellee
              ______________________

                         2023-1055
                   ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2021-
 00491.
                  ______________________

    Before PROST, HUGHES, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                         ORDER
     The parties file a joint statement noting that this ap-
 peal is moot in view of ChromaDex, Inc. v. Elysium Health,
 Inc., 59 F.4th 1280 (Fed. Cir. 2023), cert. denied
 (Oct. 16, 2023) (affirming patent-ineligibility of the claims
 at issue here). The parties also request that “the decision
 on appeal . . . be vacated and remanded with instructions”
 to dismiss. ECF No. 24 at 3; see Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com,
 Inc., 976 F.3d 1316, 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2020).
Case: 23-1055    Document: 25     Page: 2   Filed: 12/18/2023

 2 THORNE RESEARCH, INC. v. TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

    Upon consideration thereof,
    IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The appeal is dismissed as moot, the final written
 decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in IPR2021-
 00491 is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United
 States Patent and Trademark Office with instructions to
 dismiss IPR2021-00491 as moot.
    (2) Each party shall bear its own costs.
                                               FOR THE COURT

 December 18, 2023
      Date

 ISSUED AS A MANDATE: December 18, 2023