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APPLE INC. v. VOIP-PAL.COM, INC.

2018-1456 2018-1457.

976 F.3d 1316 (2020)

APPLE INC., Appellant v. VOIP-PAL.COM, INC., Appellee. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Intervenor

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: September 25, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Andrew Perry , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC, argued for appellant. Also represented by Brian Buroker , Andrew Wilhelm ; Ryan Iwahashi , Palo Alto, CA; Paul R. Hart , Erise IP, P.A., Greenwood Village, CO; Eric Allan Buresh , Adam Prescott Seitz , Overland Park, KS.

Lewis Emery Hudnell, III , Hudnell Law Group PC, Mountain View, CA, argued for appellee.

Dennis Fan , Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, argued for intervenor. Also represented by Melissa N. Patterson , Ethan P. Davis ; Thomas W. Krause , Farheena Yasmeen Rasheed , Daniel Kazhdan , Office of the Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA.

Before Prost, Chief Judge, Reyna and Hughes, Circuit Judges.

In two consolidated appeals, Apple Inc. challenges the final written decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that certain claims of Voip-Pal.com, Inc.'s patents were not invalid for obviousness. Apple also challenges the Board's sanctions determinations. We find no error in the Board's non-obviousness determinations...

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