       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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          SHERMAN & ASSOCIATES, INC.
            and ARTHUR SHERMAN,
               Plaintiffs-Appellants,

                           v.

       OXFORD INSTRUMENTS, PLC and
     OXFORD INSTRUMENTS AMERICA, INC.,
              Defendants-Appellees,

                         and

            ASM INTERNATIONAL, N.V.
             and ASM AMERICA, INC.,
                Defendants-Appellees.
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                      2012-1218
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   Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Northern District of California in Case No. 11-CV-0827,
Judge Charles R. Breyer.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    ROBERT J. YORIO, Carr & Ferrell LLP, of Menlo Park,
California, argued for plaintiffs-appellants.
    HENRY C. BUNSOW, Bunsow, De Mory, Smith &
Allison LLP, of San Francisco, California, argued for
defendants-appellees, ASM International, N.V., et al.
With him on the brief were BRIAN A.E. SMITH and ROBIN
K. CURTIS.

   JOSEPH J. MUELLER, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale &
Dorr LLP, of Boston, Massachusetts, for defendants-
appellees Oxford Instruments, PLC, et al.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, LOURIE, and SCHALL, Circuit
Judges).


           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.



                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



November 20, 2012             /s/ Jan Horbaly
     Date                 Jan Horbaly
                          Clerk
