       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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             NFC TECHNOLOGY, LLC,
                    Appellant

                           v.

JOSEPH MATAL, PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS
 AND DUTIES OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF
 COMMERCE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
AND DIRECTOR, U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK
                 OFFICE,
                 Intervenor
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                      2016-1809
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    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2014-
01199.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   JON WRIGHT, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, PLLC,
Washington, DC, argued for appellant. Also represented
by ADAM LAROCK, BRIAN LEE; ROBERT AUCHTER, McKool
Smith, P.C., Washington, DC.
    BENJAMIN T. HICKMAN, Office of the Solicitor, United
States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA,
argued for intervenor Joseph Matal. Also represented by
NATHAN K. KELLEY, THOMAS W. KRAUSE, JOSEPH GERARD
PICCOLO, SCOTT WEIDENFELLER.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 September 20, 2017              /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
        Date                     Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court
