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Dragon Intellectual Property v. Unified Patents, Inc., No. 16-1813 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 1, 2017)

Dismissed
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 16-1813
Decided
November 1, 2017
Judge
Stoll, J.
Document
Nonprecedential Opinion
Length
2 pages

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential. United States Court of Appeals

for the Federal Circuit

DRAGON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LLC,

Appellant

v.

UNIFIED PATENTS, INC.,

Appellee

2016-1813

Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2014-01252.

Decided: November 1, 2017

LEI MEI, Mei & Mark LLP, Washington, DC, argued for appellant. Also represented by LAURENCE M. SANDELL.

MICHAEL KIKLIS, Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP, Alexandria, VA, argued for appellee. Also represented by LISA MANDRUSIAK, CHRISTOPHER RICCIUTI; JONATHAN RUDOLPH KOMINEK STROUD, Unified Patents Inc., Washington, DC.

22 DRAGON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY v. UNIFIED PATENTS, INC.

Before MOORE, MAYER, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.

Dragon Intellectual Property appeals the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s determination that claims 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 13, and 14 of U.S. Patent No. 5,930,444 are invalid. Our decision today in a related case, Dragon Intellectual Property, LLC v. DISH Network LLC et al., Nos. 2016-2468, -2492, affirms the Board’s determination that claims 1–4, 7–10, 13, and 14 of the ’444 patent are invalid. Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal as moot.

DISMISSED AS MOOT

COSTS

No costs.

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