Case: 12-1297         Document: 31          Page: 1       Filed: 12/10/2012




               NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

    United States Court of Appeals
        for the Federal Circuit
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                      CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.,
                            Appellant,
                                      v.
  DAVID J. KAPPOS, DIRECTOR, UNITED STATES
      PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE,
                    Appellee,
                                      v.
     TELES AG INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIEN,
                  Cross Appellant.
                     __________________________

                         2012-1513, -1514
                  (Reexamination No. 95/001,001)
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    Appeals from the United States Patent and Trade-
 mark Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
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               IN RE TELES AG
   INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIEN AND SIGRAM
    SCHINDLER BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
                    MBH
Case: 12-1297      Document: 31      Page: 2   Filed: 12/10/2012




 CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. v. KAPPOS                               2

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                          2012-1297
                (Reexamination No. 90/010,017)
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     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
                 __________________________

                       ON MOTION
                 __________________________

                          ORDER
    Cisco Systems, Inc. moves without opposition to treat
 appeal no. 2012-1513, -1514 and appeal no. 2012-1297 as
 companion cases.
       Upon consideration thereof,
       IT IS ORDERED THAT:

     The motion is granted. The above-captioned cases
 will be treated as companion cases and will be assigned to
 the same merits panel.

                                       FOR THE COURT

                                       /s/ Jan Horbaly
                                       Jan Horbaly
                                       Clerk

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