Court Opinion

ID: 4686948
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-05-14 15:01:21.59816+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:04:37.387590
License: Public Domain

Case: 20-1383   Document: 72     Page: 1   Filed: 05/14/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

       DOCUMENT SECURITY SYSTEMS, INC.,
                  Appellant

                            v.

        NICHIA CORPORATION, CREE, INC.,
                   Appellees

   ANDREW HIRSHFELD, PERFORMING THE
    FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE UNDER
       SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR
 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DIRECTOR OF
 THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK
                   OFFICE,
                   Intervenor
             ______________________

                       2020-1383
                 ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. IPR2018-
 01166, IPR2019-00506.
                  ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________

      BRIAN DAVID LEDAHL, Russ August & Kabat, Los Ange-
 les, CA, argued for appellant. Also represented by AMY
Case: 20-1383     Document: 72   Page: 2    Filed: 05/14/2021

 HAYDEN, PAUL ANTHONY KROEGER.

     THOMAS R. MAKIN, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New
 York, NY, argued for appellee Nichia Corporation. Also
 represented by DAVID JEFFREY COOPERBERG, ERIC
 SEBASTIAN LUCAS; MATT BERKOWITZ, PATRICK ROBERT
 COLSHER, Menlo Park, CA.

     BLANEY HARPER, Jones Day, Washington, DC, for ap-
 pellee Cree, Inc. Also represented by JOSHUA R.
 NIGHTINGALE, Pittsburgh, PA.

     MARY L. KELLY, Office of the Solicitor, United States
 Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, for interve-
 nor. Also represented by THOMAS W. KRAUSE, MAUREEN
 DONOVAN QUELER, FARHEENA YASMEEN RASHEED.
                 ______________________

 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

         May 14, 2021            /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
            Date                 Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court