Court Opinion

ID: 3202019
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-05-10 15:01:04.304927+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:32:36.753300
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
                    ______________________

                 TROY R. NORRED, M.D.,
                       Appellant

                                   v.

  MEDTRONIC, INC., MEDTRONIC VASCULAR,
    INC., MEDTRONIC COREVALVE, LLC,
                   Appellees
            ______________________

                          2015-1731
                    ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2014-
00110.

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                 TROY R. NORRED, M.D.,
                       Appellant

                                   v.

  MEDTRONIC, INC., MEDTRONIC VASCULAR,
    INC., MEDTRONIC COREVALVE, LLC,
                   Appellees
            ______________________

                          2015-1874
                    ______________________
2                                 NORRED     v. MEDTRONIC, INC.

    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, in No. IPR2014-
00111.

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                  TROY R. NORRED, M.D.,
                        Appellant

                                    v.

    MEDTRONIC, INC., MEDTRONIC VASCULAR,
      INC., MEDTRONIC COREVALVE, LLC,
                     Appellees
              ______________________

                           2016-1031
                     ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, in No. IPR2014-
00395.
                 ______________________

                     Decided: May 10, 2016
                     ______________________

    JAMES J. KERNELL, Erickson, Kernell, Derusseau &
Kleypas, LLC, Leawood, KS, argued for appellant. Also
represented by DAVID LOUIS MARCUS, Bartle & Marcus
LLC, Kansas City, MO.

    JOHN C. O’QUINN, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington,
DC, argued for appellees. Also represented by WILLIAM H.
BURGESS; JACK S. BARUFKA, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman LLP, McLean, VA; EVAN FINKEL, Los Angeles,
CA.
NORRED   v. MEDTRONIC, INC.                            3

    THOMAS W. KRAUSE, Office of the Solicitor, United
States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, for
intervenor Michelle K. Lee. Also represented by SCOTT
WEIDENFELLER, MARY L. KELLY, FARHEENA YASMEEN
RASHEED, MONICA BARNES LATEEF.
                ______________________

   Before PROST, Chief Judge, DYK and REYNA, Circuit
                        Judges.
PER CURIAM.
    Having heard and considered case numbers 2015-
1731, 2015-1874, and 2016-1031, we affirm the decisions
of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in case numbers
2015-1731 and 2015-1874. Based on the affirmance of
those two cases, we dismiss as moot case number 2016-
1031.
    AFFIRMED AS TO 2015-1731, 2015-1874 AND
         DISMISSED AS TO 2016-1031