Mers Kutt v. Apple Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, Intel Corporation, Nvidia…

N OTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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MERS KUTT,
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
APPLE INC., INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
MACHINES CORPORATION, INTEL
CORPORATION, NVIDIA CORPORATION,
GOOGLE LLC, LENOVO GROUP LIMITED, ACER,
INC., DELL, INC., TOSHIBA CORPORATION,
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC., SPRINT
CORPORATION, AT&T CORP., T-MOBILE USA,
INC., BLACKBERRY LIMITED, FKA RESEARCH IN
MOTION INC., BEST BUY CO., INC, SCOTIABANK,
FKA BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, JPMORGAN CHASE
& CO., JONES DAY, SEASONS CONDOMINIUMS,
THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC., PAMELA
MARY DEVINS, ELLEN AZEVEDO, CAROL CLAY,
BRANCH BANKING & TRUST CO., NKA TRUIST
BANK, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, ARM LTD.,
Defendants-Appellees
ARM HOLDINGS PLC, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS
CO., LTD., MICROSOFT CORPORATION,
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, QUALCOMM
INCORPORATED, HTC CORPORATION, NOKIA
CORPORATION, ASUSTEK COMPUTER, INC.,
SONY CORPORATION, FUJITSU LIMITED,
AMAZON.COM, INC., EBAY, INC., ATMEL
CORPORATION, EDWARD FRANCIS
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OCONNOR,LLP, CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION,
STORAGE POST INC, ROBERT GREENE, RHEA
GREENE, MR. STUART SMITH LLP, UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA GOVERNMENTS,
Defendants
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2020-1757
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Texas in No. 2:19-cv-00316-RWS, Judge
Robert Schroeder, III.
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JUDGMENT
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MERS K UTT , North York, Ontario, Canada, pro se.
BENJAMIN ELACQUA, Fish & Richardson P.C., Houston,
TX, for defendant-appellee Apple Inc. Also represented by
ASHLEY BOLT , Atlanta, GA; ANDREW T HOMPSON G ORHAM ,
Gillam & Smith LLP, Tyler, TX; MELISSA R. SMITH , Mar-
shall, TX.
MICHAEL EDWIN J ONES , Potter Minton, Tyler, TX, for
defendants-appellees International Business Machines
Corporation, Verizon Communications, Inc.
D AN L. BAGATELL , Perkins Coie LLP, Hanover, NH, for
defendant-appellee Intel Corporation. Also represented by
D AVID F OLSOM , Jackson Walker LLP, Texarkana, TX.
D AVID M. H OFFMAN, Fish & Richardson P.C., Austin,
TX, for defendant-appellee NVIDIA Corporation. Also rep-
resented by ASHLEY BOLT , Atlanta, GA.
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MICHAEL SOONUK K WUN, Kwun Bhansali Lazarus LLP,
San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Google LLC.
ERIC H. F INDLAY , Findlay Craft PC, Tyler, TX, for de-
fendants-appellees Lenovo Group Limited, Acer, Inc., Best
Buy Co., Inc. Defendants-appellees Lenovo Group Limited,
Best Buy Co., Inc. also represented by ROGER BRIAN CRAFT .
MICHAEL H AWES , Baker Botts, LLP, Houston, TX, for
defendants-appellees Dell, Inc., Toshiba Corporation, Ad-
vanced Micro Devices. Defendant-appellee Dell, Inc. also
represented by ROGER F ULGHUM .
MARTIN G ILMORE, Perkins Coie LLP, Austin, TX, for
defendants-appellees Sprint Corporation, T-Mobile USA,
Inc.
SCOTT W. BREEDLOVE , Carter Arnett, PLLC, Dallas,
TX, for defendant-appellee AT&T Corp. Also represented
by MINGHUI YANG, Carmichael IP, PLLC, Tysons Corner,
VA.
SHAUN WILLIAM H ASSETT , Potter Minton PC, Tyler, TX,
for defendant-appellee BlackBerry Limited. Also repre-
sented by J ASON W. COOK, McGuireWoods LLP, Dallas, TX;
BRIAN D AVID SCHMALZBACH , Richmond, VA.
ERIC J OSEPH K LEIN, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, TX,
for defendant-appellee Scotiabank. Also represented by
MATTHEW WALTER M ORAN, J EFFREY R. SWIGART .
ROSE C ORDERO P REY , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New
York, NY, for defendant-appellee JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Also represented by JOSHUA L EE R ASKIN.
MARGARET I SABEL L YLE, Jones Day, Dallas, TX, for de-
fendant-appellee Jones Day.
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MIA BREAUX L ORICK, Robert Markel Weinberg Butler
Hailey PC, Houston, TX, for defendants-appellees Seasons
Condominiums, Pamela Mary Devins, Ellen Azevedo,
Carol Clay.
ALAN I. B ECKER , Litchfield Cavo LLP, Chicago, IL, for
defendant-appellee The Travelers Companies, Inc.
MATIAS F ERRARIO , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
LLP, Winston-Salem, NC, for defendant-appellee Branch
Banking and Trust Company.
K EVIN P AUL ANDERSON, Duane Morris LLP, Washing-
ton, DC, for defendant-appellee ARM Ltd.
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T HIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is
O RDERED and ADJUDGED:
P ER CURIAM (N EWMAN, REYNA, and CHEN, Circuit
Judges).
AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.
ENTERED BY O RDER OF THE COURT
November 9, 2022
Date
/s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
Peter R. Marksteiner
Clerk of Court
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