VIRNETX INC. v. MANGROVE PARTNERS MASTER FUND, LTD.

Nos. 2017-1368, 2017-1383.

VIRNETX INC., Appellant, v. THE MANGROVE PARTNERS MASTER FUND, LTD., APPLE INC., Appellees. VIRNETX INC., Appellant, v. THE MANGROVE PARTNERS MASTER FUND, LTD., APPLE INC., BLACK SWAMP IP, LLC, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: July 8, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

NAVEEN MODI , Paul Hastings LLP, Washington, DC, argued for appellant. Also represented by STEPHEN BLAKE KINNAIRD , JOSEPH PALYS , IGOR VICTOR TIMOFEYEV , MICHAEL WOLFE , DANIEL ZEILBERGER .

MARK CHRISTOPHER FLEMING , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, argued for all appellees. Appellee Apple Inc. also represented by WILLIAM F. LEE , LAUREN B. FLETCHER , DOMINIC E. MASSA ; THOMAS GREGORY SPRANKLING , Palo Alto, CA; BRITTANY BLUEITT AMADI , Washington, DC.

JAMES T. BAILEY , Law Office of James T. Bailey, New York, NY, for appellee Mangrove Partners Master Fund, Ltd.

AMEDEO F. FERRARO , Martin & Ferraro, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for appellee Black Swamp IP, LLC. Also represented by WESLEY MEINERDING , Hartville, OH.

NANCY JO LINCK , Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C., Washington, DC, for amici curiae Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Amicus curiae Biotechnology Innovation Organization also represented by MELISSA A. BRAND , HANSJORG SAUER , Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Washington, DC. Amicus curiae Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America also represented by DAVID EVAN KORN , Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association of America, Washington, DC.

Before PROST, , MOORE and REYNA,


NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

VirnetX Inc. appeals two inter partes review decisions holding claims 1, 3-4, 7-8, 10 and 12 of U.S. Patent No. 6,502,135 and claims 1-2, 6-8, and 12-14 of U.S. Patent No. 7,490,151 unpatentable. VirnetX raises multiple procedural challenges, including that the Patent Trial...

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