       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                  HALOZYME, INC.,
                  Plaintiff-Appellant

                           v.

    ANDREI IANCU, UNDER SECRETARY OF
  COMMERCE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
   AND DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES
     PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE,
              Defendant-Appellee
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                      2019-1011
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   Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Virginia in No. 1:16-cv-01580-CMH-
JFA, Senior Judge Claude M. Hilton.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    WILLIAM G. GAEDE, III, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP,
Menlo Park, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellant. Also rep-
resented by MANDY H. KIM, Irvine, CA; SAMI SEDGHANI,
San Francisco, CA; PAUL WHITFIELD HUGHES, JOSHUA
DAVID ROGACZEWSKI, Washington, DC.

   FRANCES LYNCH, Office of the Solicitor, United States
Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, argued for
defendant-appellee.     Also represented by KAKOLI
CAPRIHAN, THOMAS W. KRAUSE, JOSEPH MATAL, AMY J.
NELSON; JAYNIE RANDALL LILLEY, United States Depart-
ment of Justice, Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (PROST, Chief Judge, MOORE and
HUGHES, Circuit Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                    ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



 January 13, 2020                /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
      Date                       Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court
