       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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  LEDERGERBER MEDICAL INNOVATIONS, LLC
      AND DR. WALTER LEDERGERBER,
             Plaintiffs-Appellants,

                            v.

          W.L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC.,
                 Defendant-Appellee.
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                       2011-1379
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    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois in No. 07-CV-1593, Judge
Virginia M. Kendall.
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                      JUDGMENT
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     CHRISTOPHER J. LEE, Niro, Haller & Niro, of Chicago,
Illinois, argued for plaintiffs-appellants. With him on the
brief were RICHARD B. MEGLEY, ROBERT A. CONLEY and
CHRISTOPHER W. NIRO.

    HARRY C. MARCUS, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP,
of New York, New York, argued for defendant-appellee.
With him on the brief were JOSEPH A. FARCO; and
MATTHEE K. BLACKBURN, of San Francisco, California. Of
counsel on the brief were JOHN S. CAMPBELL and CAROL A.
LEWIS WHITE, W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., of Newark,
Delaware.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and PROST,
Circuit Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 January 13, 2012            /s/ Jan Horbaly
     Date                       Jan Horbaly
                                   Clerk
