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Xerox Corp. v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 23-1969 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 17, 2025)

Dismissed
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 23-1969
Decided
April 17, 2025
Judge
Moore, C.J.
Document
Nonprecedential Opinion
Length
2 pages

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.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

for the Federal Circuit

XEROX CORP.,

Appellant

v.

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

Appellee

2023-1969

Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2021-01461.

Decided: April 17, 2025

KEVIN L. BURGESS, McKool Smith, P.C., Marshall, TX, for appellant. Also represented by ALEXANDRA FIGARI EASLEY, DAVID SOCHIA, Dallas, TX; JAMES ELROY QUIGLEY, Austin, TX. HEIDI LYN KEEFE, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for appellee. Also represented by ANDREW CARTER MACE, MARK R. WEINSTEIN; PHILLIP EDWARD MORTON, Washington, DC.

22 XEROX CORP. v. META PLATFORMS, INC.

Before MOORE, Chief Judge, PROST and STARK, Circuit

Judges.

Xerox Corporation (Xerox) appeals a final written decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) holding claims 1–5, 7–11, 13–17, 19, and 20 of U.S. Patent No. 9,208,439 unpatentable. Because we affirm the Board’s decision holding all claims of the ’439 patent unpatentable as obvious in Xerox Corporation v. Snap, Inc., No. 2023-1967 (Fed. Cir. April 17, 2025), we dismiss this appeal as moot.

DISMISSED

COSTS

No costs.

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