       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                KITE PHARMA, INC.,
                     Appellant

                           v.

  SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER
                 RESEARCH,
                   Appellee
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                      2017-1647
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    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2015-
01719.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   EDWARD GEORGE DANE, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP,
Los Angeles, CA, argued for appellant. Also represented
by ARIEL GREEN, ADAM R. LAWTON, JEFFREY I.
WEINBERGER.

   MORGAN CHU, Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, CA,
argued for appellee.   Also represented by MICHAEL
RICHARD FLEMING, ALAN J. HEINRICH, ELIZABETH C. TUAN.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



   PER CURIAM (WALLACH, SCHALL, and TARANTO, Circuit
Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 June 6, 2018             /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
    Date                  Peter R. Marksteiner
                          Clerk of Court
