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Kutt v. Apple Inc., No. 20-1757 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 9, 2022)

Affirmed
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 20-1757
Decided
November 9, 2022
Judge
Per curiam (Rule 36)
Document
Rule 36 Judgment
Length
4 pages

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.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

for the Federal Circuit

MERS KUTT,

Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

APPLE INC., INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

MACHINES CORPORATION, INTEL

CORPORATION, NVIDIA CORPORATION,

GOOGLE LLC, LENOVO GROUP LIMITED, ACER,

INC., DELL, INC., TOSHIBA CORPORATION,

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC., SPRINT

CORPORATION, AT&T CORP., T-MOBILE USA,

INC., BLACKBERRY LIMITED, FKA RESEARCH IN MOTION INC., BEST BUY CO., INC, SCOTIABANK, FKA BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, JPMORGAN CHASE

& CO., JONES DAY, SEASONS CONDOMINIUMS, THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC., PAMELA

MARY DEVINS, ELLEN AZEVEDO, CAROL CLAY, BRANCH BANKING & TRUST CO., NKA TRUIST BANK, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, ARM LTD.,

Defendants-Appellees

ARM HOLDINGS PLC, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS

CO., LTD., MICROSOFT CORPORATION,

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, QUALCOMM

INCORPORATED, HTC CORPORATION, NOKIA CORPORATION, ASUSTEK COMPUTER, INC.,

SONY CORPORATION, FUJITSU LIMITED,

AMAZON.COM, INC., EBAY, INC., ATMEL

CORPORATION, EDWARD FRANCIS

2OCONNOR,LLP, CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, STORAGE POST INC, ROBERT GREENE, RHEA

GREENE, MR. STUART SMITH LLP, UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA GOVERNMENTS,

Defendants

2020-1757

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in No. 2:19-cv-00316-RWS, Judge Robert Schroeder, III.

JUDGMENT

MERS KUTT, North York, Ontario, Canada, pro se.

BENJAMIN ELACQUA, Fish & Richardson P.C., Houston, TX, for defendant-appellee Apple Inc. Also represented by ASHLEY BOLT, Atlanta, GA; ANDREW THOMPSON GORHAM, Gillam & Smith LLP, Tyler, TX; MELISSA R. SMITH, Marshall, TX. MICHAEL EDWIN JONES, Potter Minton, Tyler, TX, for defendants-appellees International Business Machines Corporation, Verizon Communications, Inc. DAN L. BAGATELL, Perkins Coie LLP, Hanover, NH, for defendant-appellee Intel Corporation. Also represented by DAVID FOLSOM, Jackson Walker LLP, Texarkana, TX. DAVID M. HOFFMAN, Fish & Richardson P.C., Austin, TX, for defendant-appellee NVIDIA Corporation. Also represented by ASHLEY BOLT, Atlanta, GA.

3MICHAEL SOONUK KWUN, Kwun Bhansali Lazarus LLP, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Google LLC. ERIC H. FINDLAY, Findlay Craft PC, Tyler, TX, for defendants-appellees Lenovo Group Limited, Acer, Inc., Best Buy Co., Inc. Defendants-appellees Lenovo Group Limited, Best Buy Co., Inc. also represented by ROGER BRIAN CRAFT. MICHAEL HAWES, Baker Botts, LLP, Houston, TX, for defendants-appellees Dell, Inc., Toshiba Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices. Defendant-appellee Dell, Inc. also represented by ROGER FULGHUM. MARTIN GILMORE, Perkins Coie LLP, Austin, TX, for defendants-appellees Sprint Corporation, T-Mobile USA, Inc. SCOTT W. BREEDLOVE, Carter Arnett, PLLC, Dallas, TX, for defendant-appellee AT&T Corp. Also represented by MINGHUI YANG, Carmichael IP, PLLC, Tysons Corner, VA.

SHAUN WILLIAM HASSETT, Potter Minton PC, Tyler, TX, for defendant-appellee BlackBerry Limited. Also represented by JASON W. COOK, McGuireWoods LLP, Dallas, TX; BRIAN DAVID SCHMALZBACH, Richmond, VA. ERIC JOSEPH KLEIN, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, TX, for defendant-appellee Scotiabank. Also represented by MATTHEW WALTER MORAN, JEFFREY R. SWIGART.

ROSE CORDERO PREY, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee JPMorgan Chase & Co. Also represented by JOSHUA LEE RASKIN. MARGARET ISABEL LYLE, Jones Day, Dallas, TX, for defendant-appellee Jones Day.

4MIA BREAUX LORICK, Robert Markel Weinberg Butler Hailey PC, Houston, TX, for defendants-appellees Seasons Condominiums, Pamela Mary Devins, Ellen Azevedo, Carol Clay. ALAN I. BECKER, Litchfield Cavo LLP, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellee The Travelers Companies, Inc. MATIAS FERRARIO, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Winston-Salem, NC, for defendant-appellee Branch Banking and Trust Company. KEVIN PAUL ANDERSON, Duane Morris LLP, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee ARM Ltd.

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, REYNA, and CHEN, Circuit

Judges).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

November 9, 2022 /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner

Date Peter R. Marksteiner

Clerk of Court

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