Court Opinion

ID: 9395668
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-18 16:01:12.912916+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:10.504395
License: Public Domain

Case: 22-1785   Document: 47     Page: 1   Filed: 05/18/2023

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

     XR COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, DBA VIVATO
              TECHNOLOGIES,
              Plaintiff-Appellant

                            v.

        D-LINK SYSTEMS, INC., BELKIN
  INTERNATIONAL, INC., NEWO CORPORATION,
    ARUBA NETWORKS, INC., NETGEAR, INC.,
  RUCKUS WIRELESS, INC., UBIQUITI INC., AKA
  UBIQUITINETWORKS, INC., ARUBA NETWORKS
                    LLC,
                  Defendants

   ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL, ASUSTEK
     COMPUTER, INC., CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.,
          EXTREME NETWORKS, INC.,
              Defendants-Appellees
             ______________________

 2022-1785, 2022-1787, 2022-1789, 2022-1790, 2022-1791,
                       2022-1792
                ______________________

     Appeals from the United States District Court for the
 Central District of California in Nos. 2:17-cv-02948-AG-
 JCG, 2:17-cv-02951-AG-JCG, 2:17-cv-02953-AG-JCG, 8:17-
 cv-00596-DOC-JDE, Judge David O. Carter.
                  ______________________
Case: 22-1785      Document: 47   Page: 2      Filed: 05/18/2023

 2              XR COMMUNICATIONS, LLC   v. D-LINK SYSTEMS, INC.

                    Decided: May 18, 2023
                    ______________________

    MARC A. FENSTER, Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles,
 CA, for plaintiff-appellant. Also represented by MINNA
 CHAN, BRIAN DAVID LEDAHL, REZA MIRZAIE, JAMES
 PICKENS.

    JONATHAN K. WALDROP, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP,
 Redwood Shores, CA, for defendants-appellees ASUS Com-
 puter International, Asustek Computer, Inc. Also repre-
 sented by MARCUS BARBER, JOHN DOWNING.

    SARAH E. PIEPMEIER, Perkins Coie LLP, San Francisco,
 CA, for defendant-appellee Cisco Systems, Inc. Also repre-
 sented by RYAN BRODIE HAWKINS, San Diego, CA.

     DANIEL W. RICHARDS, Ropes & Gray LLP, East Palo
 Alto, CA, for defendant-appellee Extreme Networks, Inc.
 Also represented by ANDREW N. THOMASES.
                  ______________________

     Before PROST, REYNA, and STARK, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
     XR Communications, LLC dba Vivato Technologies
 (“Vivato”) appeals a judgment of the U.S. District Court for
 the Central District of California (“C.D. Cal. District
 Court”) holding claims 1–9 and 12 of U.S. Patent
 No. 6,611,231 invalid as indefinite. The C.D. Cal. District
 Court based its judgment on the collateral-estoppel effect
 of a judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Northern
 District of California (“N.D. Cal. District Court”)—the lat-
 ter of which is the subject of companion appeals Nos.
 22-1125 and 22-1141 (as consolidated, the “companion ap-
 peal”).
Case: 22-1785    Document: 47      Page: 3    Filed: 05/18/2023

 XR COMMUNICATIONS, LLC   v. D-LINK SYSTEMS, INC.           3

     Today we issued an opinion and judgment in the com-
 panion appeal affirming the N.D. Cal. District Court’s judg-
 ment. There is no dispute that our affirmance in the
 companion appeal compels affirming in this appeal. Ac-
 cordingly, having affirmed in the companion appeal, we
 likewise affirm in this appeal.
                        AFFIRMED