Lone Star Silicon Innovations, LLC v. Nanya Technology Corporation, Nanya Technology Corporation U.s.a., Nanya Technology…

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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LONE STAR SILICON INNOVATIONS, LLC,
Appellant

v.

NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, NANYA
TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION U.S.A., NANYA
TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION DELAWARE,
Appellees
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2019-2152
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Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2018-
00063.
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Before C
HEN, HUGHES, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
CHEN, Circuit Judge.
O R D E R
Nanya Technology Corporation, Nanya Technology
Corporation Delaware, and Nanya Technology Corporation
U.S.A. (collectively, Nanya) petitioned for inter partes re-
view of claims 1, 3, 4, 11, 13, and 14 of U.S. Patent No.
6,097,061 (the ’061 patent) owned by Lone Star Silicon In-
novations, LLC (Lone Star). In its Final Written Decision,
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LONE STAR SILICON INNOVATIONS v. NANYA TECHNOLOGY
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the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) held that all the
challenged claims are unpatentable under both Nanya’s
and Lone Star’s proposed claim constructions for the
phrase “a channel region formed in the semiconductor sub-
strate.” Nanya Tech. Corp. v. Lone Star Silicon Innova-
tions LLC, No. IPR2018-00063 (P.T.A.B. May 15, 2019).
Lone Star appeals the Board’s decision.
In a decision issued today in an appeal from a separate
IPR on the same patent, we affirmed the Board’s decision
holding claims 1, 3–6, 11, and 13–16 of the ’061 patent un-
patentable. Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC v. Iancu,
No. 19-1556, — F. App’x — (Fed. Cir. May 14, 2020). Thus,
this appeal is moot in light of that decision. Cisco Sys., Inc.
v. TQ Delta, LLC, 928 F.3d 1359, 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2019).

I
T IS ORDERED THAT:
Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed as moot in light
of our affirmance in Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC v.
Iancu, No. 19-1556, — F. App’x — (Fed. Cir. May 14, 2020),
which invalidated all of the claims at issue in this appeal.

Each party shall bear its own costs.

May 14, 2020
Date
FOR THE COURT

/s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
Peter R. Marksteiner
Clerk of Court

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