Court Opinion

ID: 4650706
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-01-12 16:00:41.500269+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:01:34.771969
License: Public Domain

Case: 20-1411   Document: 68     Page: 1   Filed: 01/12/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
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    VELLIYUR NOTT MALLIKARJU RAO, ALLEN
              CAPRON SIEVERT,
                  Appellants

                            v.

  JOHN W. SMITH, CLAIRE MCGUINESS, ANDREW
                 P. SHARRATT,
                     Appellees
              ______________________

                       2020-1411
                 ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. 106,099.
                   ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________

     DIPU A. DOSHI, Blank Rome LLP, Washington, DC, ar-
 gued for appellants. Also represented by MEGAN R. WOOD;
 JAY PHILIP LESSLER, New York, NY.

    BLAIR A. SILVER, Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Washington,
 DC, argued for appellees. Also represented by JOSEPH J.
 BERGHAMMER, KEVIN DAM, ERIC J. HAMP, MICHAEL L.
 KRASHIN, Chicago, IL.
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Case: 20-1411     Document: 68   Page: 2    Filed: 01/12/2021

 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

      PER CURIAM (PROST, Chief Judge, CLEVENGER and
 DYK, Circuit Judges).
                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

       January 12, 2021          /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
            Date                 Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court