       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                 RICHARD GRAMM,
                     Appellant

                           v.

                DEERE & COMPANY,
                       Appellee
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                 2017-1252, 2017-1253
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   Appeals from the United States Patent and Trade-
mark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos.
IPR2015-00898, IPR2015-00899.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   JOHN COTTER, Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren, Ltd.,
Minneapolis, MN, argued for appellant. Also represented
by GLENNA GILBERT, KATHERINE E. MULLER, THOMAS J.
OPPOLD, DAVID P. SWENSON.

   GARY M. ROPSKI, Brinks Gilson & Lione, Chicago, IL,
argued for appellee. Also represented by JAFON FEARSON,
JOSHUA JAMES, LAURA A. LYDIGSEN, JEFFRY M. NICHOLS.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 February 13, 2018            /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
       Date                   Peter R. Marksteiner
                              Clerk of Court
