Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-06 15:00:53.368102+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:23:32.823387
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Case: 22-1335    Document: 56           Page: 1       Filed: 10/06/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

  JODI A. SCHWENDIMANN, FKA JODI A. DALVEY,
                  Appellant

                                  v.

                     STAHLS’, INC.,
                         Appellee
                  ______________________

       2022-1335, 2022-1336, 2022-1429, 2022-1431
                ______________________

     Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. IPR2020-
 00633, IPR2020-00635, IPR2020-00641, IPR2020-00644.

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  JODI A. SCHWENDIMANN, FKA JODI A. DALVEY,
                  Appellant

                                  v.

                     STAHLS’, INC.,
                         Appellee
                  ______________________

                        2022-1652
                  ______________________
Case: 22-1335     Document: 56     Page: 2    Filed: 10/06/2023

 2                             SCHWENDIMANN v. STAHLS’, INC.

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2020-
 01122.
                  ______________________

     Before PROST, CLEVENGER, and CUNNINGHAM, Circuit
                         Judges.

 CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge.

                          ORDER
     Jodi A. Schwendimann owns U.S. Patent Nos.
 RE41,623 (the “’623 patent”), 7,754,042 (the “’042 patent”),
 7,766,475 (the “’475 patent”), and 7,749,581 (the “’581 pa-
 tent”) (collectively, the “Appealed Patents”). Stahls’, Inc.
 (“Stahls’”) petitioned for inter partes review of claims 1–5
 and 6–14 and 16 of the ’623 patent, claims 16–22 of the ’042
 patent, claims 1–16 and 18–19 of the ’475 patent, and
 claims 1–2, 4–6, 8, and 11–12 of the ’581 patent. In its final
 written decisions, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
 (“Board”) held claims 1–3 and 5 1 and 6–7, 9–14, and 16 2 of
 the ’623 patent, claims 16–22 of the ’042 patent, 3 claims 1–
 15 and 18 of the ’475 patent, 4 and claims 1–2, 4–6, 8, and
 11–12 of the ’581 patent 5 unpatentable. Ms. Schwend-
 imann appeals the Board’s decisions.

      1 Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
 00641, 2021 WL 4877584 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 1, 2021).
    2   Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
 00633, 2021 WL 4860346 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 1, 2021).
    3   Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
 00635, 2021 WL 6300440 (P.T.A.B. Sept. 10, 2021).
    4   Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
 01122, 2021 WL 6340143 (P.T.A.B. Dec. 14, 2021).
    5   Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
 00644, 2021 WL 6297786 (P.T.A.B. Sept. 10, 2021).
Case: 22-1335      Document: 56    Page: 3    Filed: 10/06/2023

 SCHWENDIMANN v. STAHLS’, INC.                              3

     In a decision issued today in an appeal from separate
 inter partes reviews on the Appealed Patents, we affirmed
 the Board’s decisions holding all claims of the ’623 patent,
 the ’042 patent, and the ’475 patent and claims 1–6, 8–21,
 and 24–31 of the ’581 patent unpatentable. Schwend-
 imann v. Neenah, Inc., No. 2022-1333, slip op. 22, ––– F.4th
 –––, ––– (Fed. Cir. Oct. 6, 2023). Thus, these appeals are
 moot in light of that decision. See Already, LLC v. Nike,
 Inc., 568 U.S. 85, 91 (2013) (“A case becomes moot—and
 therefore no longer a Case or Controversy for purposes of
 Article III—when the issues presented are no longer live or
 the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the out-
 come.” (cleaned up)); see also ArcelorMittal v. AK Steel
 Corp., 856 F.3d 1365, 1370 (Fed. Cir. 2017); Cisco Sys., Inc.
 v. TQ Delta, LLC, 928 F.3d 1359, 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2019);
 Lone Star Silicon Innovations, LLC v. Nanya Tech. Corp.,
 810 F. App’x 878, 879 (Fed. Cir. 2020) (nonprecedential).

     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
      Accordingly, these appeals are dismissed as moot in
 light of our affirmance in Schwendimann v. Neenah, Inc.,
 No. 2022-1333, slip op. 22, ––– F.4th –––, ––– (Fed. Cir.
 Oct. 6, 2023), which renders unpatentable all of the claims
 at issue in these appeals.

                                         FOR THE COURT

 October 6, 2023
      Date