Gui Global Products, Ltd. v. Apple Inc.

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Decided: April 11, 2024
• Docket: 22-2257
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

Case: 22-2257 Document: 57 Page: 1 Filed: 04/11/2024

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

GUI GLOBAL PRODUCTS, LTD., DBA GWEE, Appellant

v.

APPLE INC., Appellee ______________________

2022-2257, 2022-2258, 2022-2259, 2022-2260 ______________________

Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. IPR2021- 00470, IPR2021-00471, IPR2021-00472, IPR2021-00473. ______________________

Before PROST, SCHALL, and REYNA, Circuit Judges.

PROST, Circuit Judge.

ORDER Apple Inc. petitioned for inter partes review of claims 1–10 and 16–19 of U.S. Patent No. 10,259,020 (“the ’020 patent”), claims 1, 2, 4–10, 12, 14–17, and 19 of U.S. Patent No. 10,259,021 (“the ’021 patent”), claims 1–5 and 7–13 of U.S. Patent No. 10,562,077 (“the ’077 patent”), and claims 1–5 and 7–13 of U.S. Patent No. 10,589,320 (“the ’320 pa- tent”). In four final written decisions, the Patent Trial and Case: 22-2257 Document: 57 Page: 2 Filed: 04/11/2024

Appeal Board (“Board”) determined that the challenged claims were unpatentable over the asserted prior art. Ap- ple Inc. v. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd., No. IPR2021-00470, 2022 WL 3331044 (P.T.A.B. Aug. 11, 2022); Apple Inc. v. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd., No. IPR2021-00471, 2022 WL 2960347 (P.T.A.B. July 26, 2022); Apple Inc. v. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd., No. IPR2021-00472, 2022 WL 2959606 (P.T.A.B. July 26, 2022); Apple Inc. v. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd., No. IPR2021-00473, 2022 WL 3219668 (P.T.A.B. Aug. 9, 2022). GUI Global Products, Ltd. (“Gwee”) timely appealed each final written decision, and we have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(4)(A). In a decision issued today in consolidated companion appeals, we affirmed the Board’s determination that all claims of the ’020, ’021, ’077, and ’320 patents were un- patentable. GUI Glob. Prods., Ltd. v. Samsung Elecs. Co., Nos. 22-2156, 22-2157, 22-2158, 22-2159. Gwee’s appeals here are moot in light of that decision. Cisco Sys., Inc. v. TQ Delta, LLC, 928 F.3d 1359, 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2019). IT IS ORDERED THAT: These appeals are dismissed as moot in light of our af- firmance in GUI Global Products, Ltd. v. Samsung Elec- tronics Co., Nos. 22-2156, 22-2157, 22-2158, 22-2159.

FOR THE COURT

April 11, 2024 Date