       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                   KOMATSU LTD.,
                     Appellant

                           v.

         THE AMERICAN TORCH TIP CO.,
                     Appellee
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                      2017-1696
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    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. 95/002,300.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    DAVID TARNOFF, Global IP Counselors LLP, Washing-
ton, DC, argued for appellant. Also represented by
MICHAEL THOMAS MURPHY, SUZANNE KONRAD.

   MARK FERANDO RUBIO, American Torch Tip, Co.,
Bradenton, FL, argued for appellee. Also represented by
SERGEY VERNYUK, Emerson Thomson Bennett, Akron,
OH.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is
ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



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

                    ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 February 8, 2018          /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
       Date                Peter R. Marksteiner
                           Clerk of Court
