Shelly Conte and Cindy Reichman v. Jakks Pacific, Inc.

N OTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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SHELLY CONTE AND CINDY REICHMAN,
Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
JAKKS PACIFIC, INC.,
Defendant-Appellee.
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2014-1153
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of California in No. 1:12-cv-00006-LJO-
GSA, Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill.
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Decided: June 11, 2014
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L ENDEN F. WEBB, Webb & Bordson, APC, of Fresno,
California, argued for plaintiffs-appellants.
J ONATHAN H ONIG, Feder Kaszovitz LLP, of New York,
New York, argued for defendant-appellee. Of counsel on
the brief was WILLIAM T HOMAS MCL AUGHLIN, II, Lang,
Richert & Patch, of Fresno, California.
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Before D YK, WALLACH , and CHEN, Circuit Judges.

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CONTE v. JAKKS PACIFIC, INC. 2
P ER CURIAM .
The judgment is affirmed on the grounds that (1) the
asserted claim 9 of United States Patent No. 6,494,457
(the ’457 patent) would have been obvious and (2) the
district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to
permit plaintiffs to amend the complaint to include claim
1 of the ’457 patent.
AFFIRMED

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