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Xerox Corporation v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 23-1714 (Fed. Cir. June 17, 2025)

Dismissed
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 23-1714
Decided
June 17, 2025
Judge
Stoll, J.
Document
Nonprecedential Opinion
Length
2 pages

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.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

for the Federal Circuit

XEROX CORPORATION,

Appellant

v.

META PLATFORMS, INC., FKA FACEBOOK, INC.,

Appellee

2023-1714

Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2021-01264.

Decided: June 17, 2025

KYLE N. RYMAN, McKool Smith, P.C., Austin, TX, argued for appellant. Also represented by JAMES ELROY QUIGLEY; KEVIN L. BURGESS, Marshall, TX; ALEXANDRA FIGARI EASLEY, DAVID SOCHIA, Dallas, TX. HEIDI LYN KEEFE, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, CA, argued for appellee. Also represented by DANIEL JEDEDIAH KNAUSS, MARK R. WEINSTEIN.

22 XEROX CORPORATION v. META PLATFORMS, INC.

Before STOLL, CLEVENGER, and CUNNINGHAM, Circuit

Judges.

In our opinion in Xerox Corp. v. X Corp., No. 23-1913 (Fed. Cir. June 17, 2025), issued concomitantly with this opinion, we affirmed the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board holding all claims (1–18) of U.S. Patent No. 7,043,475 unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103. The instant appeal involves a subset of those very claims: 1–3, 5, 7, 10–12, and 15–16. For the reasons we explained in Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com, Inc., 976 F.3d 1316, 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2020), this appeal is rendered moot in light of our decision in X Corp. Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal.

DISMISSED

COSTS

No costs.

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