Visa Inc., Visa U.s.a. Inc., Apple Inc. v. Universal Secure Registry, LLC

N OTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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VISA INC., VISA U.S.A. INC., APPLE INC.,
Appellants
v.
UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY, LLC,
Appellee
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2020-1662
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Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2018-
01350.
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Decided: August 27, 2021
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MATTHEW A. ARGENTI, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich &
Rosati, PC, Palo Alto, CA, argued for all appellants. Ap-
pellants Visa Inc., Visa U.S.A. Inc. also represented by
MICHAEL T. ROSATO, Seattle, WA.
MARK D. SELWYN, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and
Dorr LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for appellant Apple Inc. Also rep-
resented by BRITTANY BLUEITT AMADI, Washington, DC;
MARK CHRISTOPHER F LEMING, MONICA G REWAL , Boston,
MA.
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CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &
Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued for appellee. Also
represented by T IGRAN G ULEDJIAN.
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Before N EWMAN, P ROST*, and T ARANTO, Circuit Judges.
P ER CURIAM .
The patent at issue in this appeal is U.S. Patent No.
8,856,539, owned by Universal Secure Registry LLC (USR).
Visa filed a petition for an inter partes review, challenging
several claims of the ’539 patent before the Patent Trial
and Appeal Board, which instituted the requested review
and eventually issued a final written decision that Visa had
not shown the challenged claims to be unpatentable. In
another case, we have affirmed a district court’s judgment
that all claims of the ’539 patent are patent ineligible. Uni-
versal Secure Registry LLC v. Apple Inc., No. 20-2044 (Fed.
Cir. Aug. 26, 2021). Therefore, as the parties agreed at oral
argument, this appeal involving the ’539 patent is now
moot. Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com, Inc., 976 F.3d 1316, 1321
(Fed. Cir. 2020); Oral Arg. at 12:10–12:50. We vacate the
Board’s final written decision and remand for the Board to
dismiss Visa’s petition. See Apple, 976 F.3d at 1321 (citing
United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36, 39–41
(1950)).
No costs.
VACATED AND REMANDED
* Circuit Judge Sharon Prost vacated the position of
Chief Judge on May 21, 2021.
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