DOCUMENT SECURITY SYSTEMS INC v. Andrew Hirshfeld, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Intervenor (2021)

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

DOCUMENT SECURITY SYSTEMS, INC., Appellant v. NICHIA CORPORATION, Cree, Inc., Appellees Andrew Hirshfeld, Performing the Functions and Duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Intervenor

2020-1383

Decided: May 14, 2021

(Newman, Reyna, and Stoll, Circuit Judges). Brian David Ledahl, Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles, CA, argued for appellant. Also represented by Amy Hayden, Paul Anthony Kroeger. Thomas R. Makin, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, argued for appellee Nichia Corporation. Also represented by David Jeffrey Cooperberg, Eric Sebastian Lucas; Matt Berkowitz, Patrick Robert Colsher, Menlo Park, CA. Blaney Harper, Jones Day, Washington, DC, for appellee Cree, Inc. Also represented by Joshua R. Nightingale, Pittsburgh, PA. Mary L. Kelly, Office of the Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, for intervenor. Also represented by Thomas W. Krause, Maureen Donovan Queler, Farheena Yasmeen Rasheed.

JUDGMENT

This Cause having been heard and considered, it is Ordered and Adjudged:

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

Per Curiam