NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential. United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
DSS, INC.,
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
NICHIA CORPORATION, NICHIA AMERICA
CORPORATION,
Defendants-Appellees
2024-2122
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California in No. 2:19-cv-08172-JVS-JEM, Judge James V. Selna.
Decided: March 9, 2026
MATTHEW J. SMITH, Remenick PLLC, Edwards, CO, argued for plaintiff-appellant. Also represented by JAMES REMENICK; CHRISTOPHER B. MEAD, Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears LLP, Washington, DC; KARIN G. PAGNANELLI, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, Los Angeles, CA. THOMAS R. MAKIN, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP, New York, NY, argued for defendants-appellees. Also
22 DSS, INC. v. NICHIA CORPORATION
represented by DAVID JEFFREY COOPERBERG, ERIC SEBASTIAN LUCAS, ADI WILLIAMS.
Before HUGHES and CUNNINGHAM, Circuit Judges, and
PER CURIAM.
The judgment is affirmed on the ground that the asserted claims (claims 1–8 and 11 of United States Patent No. 6,879,040) are invalid as indefinite under 35 U.S.C. § 112.
AFFIRMED
Footnotes
- ↩ 1 Honorable Allison D. Burroughs, District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, sitting by designation.