        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


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

                              v.

   MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING
                  COMPANY,
         (also known as 3M Company)
               Defendant-Appellee.

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                        2012-1283
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   Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Southern District of Iowa in No. 03-CV-40493, Judge
Mark W. Bennett.
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                       JUDGMENT
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       GEORGE C. SUMMERFIELD, JR., Stadheim & Grear
Ltd., of Chicago, Illinois, agued for the plaintiff-appellant.
With him on the brief were JOSEPH A. GREAR and KEITH
A. VOGT.
      DAVID J.F. GROSS, of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, of
Minneapolis, Minnesota, argued for defendant-appellee.
With him on the brief were JAMES W. PORADEK, TIMOTHY
E. GRIMSRUD, CHRISTOPHER J. BURRELL and KATHERINE S.
RAZAVI.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, LOURIE and MOORE,
Circuit Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



February 21, 2013            /s/ Jan Horbaly
       Date                     Jan Horbaly
                                   Clerk
