Opinion
Nos 2022-2257 2022-2258 2022-2259 2022-2260
04-11-2024
GUI GLOBAL PRODUCTS, LTD., DBA GWEE, Appellant v. APPLE INC., Appellee
This order is nonprecedential.
Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. IPR2021-00470, IPR2021-00471, IPR2021-00472, IPR2021-00473.
Before PROST, SCHALL, and REYNA, Circuit Judges.
ORDER
PROST, CIRCUIT JUDGE
Apple Inc. petitioned for inter partes review of claims 1-10 and 16-19 of U.S. Patent No. 10,259,020 ("the '020 patent"), claims 1, 2, 4-10, 12, 14-17, and 19 of U.S. Patent No. 10,259,021 ("the '021 patent"), claims 1-5 and 7-13 of U.S. Patent No. 10,562,077 ("the '077 patent"), and claims 1-5 and 7-13 of U.S. Patent No. 10,589,320 ("the '320 patent"). In four final written decisions, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") determined that the challenged claims were unpatentable over the asserted prior art. Apple Inc. v. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd., No. IPR2021-00470, 2022 WL 3331044 (P.T.A.B. Aug. 11, 2022); Apple Inc. v. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd., No. IPR2021-00471, 2022 WL 2960347 (P.T.A.B. July 26, 2022); Apple Inc. v. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd., No. IPR2021-00472, 2022 WL 2959606 (P.T.A.B. July 26, 2022); Apple Inc. v. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd., No. IPR2021-00473, 2022 WL 3219668 (P.T.A.B. Aug. 9, 2022). GUI Global Products, Ltd. ("Gwee") timely appealed each final written decision, and we have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(4)(A).
In a decision issued today in consolidated companion appeals, we affirmed the Board's determination that all claims of the '020, '021, '077, and '320 patents were unpatentable. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd. v. Samsung Elecs. Co., Nos. 22-2156, 22-2157, 22-2158, 22-2159. Gwee's appeals here are moot in light of that decision. Cisco Sys., Inc. v. TQ Delta, LLC, 928 F.3d 1359, 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2019).
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
These appeals are dismissed as moot in light of our affirmance in GUI Global Products, Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Nos. 22-2156, 22-2157, 22-2158, 22-2159.