       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                  SYNOPSYS, INC.,
                     Appellant

                           v.

      MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION,
                   Appellee
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                      2015-2056
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    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2014-
00287.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   ERIC SHUMSKY, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP,
Washington, DC, argued for appellant. Also represented
by JEREMY PETERMAN; TRAVIS JENSEN, ANTHONY
TARTAGLIO, Menlo Park, CA; BRIAN PHILIP GOLDMAN, San
Francisco, CA.

    ANDREW M. MASON, Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, Port-
land, OR, argued for appellee. Also represented by
JEFFREY S. LOVE, JOHN D. VANDENBERG.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


  October 11, 2016               /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
       Date                      Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court
