         NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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 AUTOMATION MIDDLEWARE SOLUTIONS, INC.,
             Plaintiff-Appellant

                           v.

      INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC., SCHNEIDER
 ELECTRIC USA, INC., ROCKWELL AUTOMATION,
INC., ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES,
                     INC.,
              Defendants-Appellees

   EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT LLLP,
FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., EMERSON
      INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION USA INC.,
    ROSEMOUNT INC., EMERSON PROCESS
 MANAGEMENT POWER & WATER SOLUTIONS,
INC., EMERSON INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION USA
                      LLC,
           Defendants-Cross-Appellants
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      2017-2187, 2017-2189, 2017-2190, 2017-2222
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    Appeals from the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Texas in Nos. 2:15-cv-00898-RWS,
2:15-cv-01266-RWS, 2:15-cv-01269-RWS, Judge Robert
Schroeder, III.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    MATTHEW D. POWERS, Tensegrity Law Group, LLP,
Redwood City, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellant. Also
represented by WILLIAM P. NELSON; MONTE BOND,
PATRICKJ CONROY, JAMES PERKINS, TERRY SAAD,
Bragalone Conroy PC, Dallas, TX.

    RUDOLPH A. TELSCHER, JR., Husch Blackwell LLP, St.
Louis, MO, argued for defendants-cross-appellants. Also
represented by KARA RENEE FUSSNER, STEVEN E.
HOLTSHOUSER.

    TERRENCE J. TRUAX, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL,
for defendants-appellees Invensys Systems, Inc., Schnei-
der Electric USA, Inc. Also represented by REGINALD J.
HILL; NICK G. SAROS, Los Angeles, CA; ADAM G.
UNIKOWSKY, Washington, DC.

   CYNTHIA RIGSBY, Foley & Lardner LLP, Milwaukee,
WI, for defendants-appellees Rockwell Automation, Inc.,
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. Also represented
by KEVIN J. MALANEY, MICHELLE A. MORAN, MATTHEW
WAYNE PETERS.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                    ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT
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      Date           Peter R. Marksteiner
                     Clerk of Court
