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`NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
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`United States Court of Appeals
`for the Federal Circuit
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`APPLE INC.,
`Appellant
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`v.
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`UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY LLC,
`Appellee
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`2020-1330
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`Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
`Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2018-
`00812.
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`Decided: August 27, 2021
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`BRITTANY BLUEITT AMADI, Wilmer Cutler Pickering
`Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, argued for appellant.
`Also represented by KEITH T. HOWELL; MONICA GREWAL,
`Boston, MA; MARK D. SELWYN, Palo Alto, CA.
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` CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &
`Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued for appellee. Also
`represented by TIGRAN GULEDJIAN.
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`Case: 20-1330 Document: 50 Page: 2 Filed: 08/27/2021
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`APPLE INC. v. UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY LLC
`
`Before NEWMAN, PROST*, and TARANTO, Circuit Judges.
`PER CURIAM.
`The patent at issue in this appeal is U.S. Patent No.
`8,856,539, owned by Universal Secure Registry LLC (USR).
`Apple filed a petition for an inter partes review, challeng-
`ing several claims of the ’539 patent before the Patent Trial
`and Appeal Board, which instituted the requested review
`and eventually issued a final written decision that Apple
`had not shown the challenged claims to be unpatentable.
`In another case, we have affirmed a district court’s judg-
`ment that all claims of the ’539 patent are patent ineligible.
`Universal Secure Registry LLC v. Apple Inc., No. 20-2044
`(Fed. Cir. Aug. 26, 2021). Therefore, as the parties agreed
`at oral argument, this appeal involving the ’539 patent is
`now moot. Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com, Inc., 976 F.3d 1316,
`1321 (Fed. Cir. 2020); Oral Arg. at 7:00–7:55, 25:00–26:40.
`We vacate the Board’s final written decision and remand
`for the Board to dismiss Apple’s petition. See Apple, 976
`F.3d at 1321 (citing United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.,
`340 U.S. 36, 39–41 (1950)).
`No costs.
`VACATED AND REMANDED
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`* Circuit Judge Sharon Prost vacated the position of
`Chief Judge on May 21, 2021.
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