Case: 13-1597 Document: 20 Page: 1 Filed: 01/31/2014
NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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IN RE RAMBUS, INC.,
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2013-1597
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Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Reexamination
No. 95/001,188.
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ON MOTION
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Before MOORE, LINN, and O’MALLEY, Circuit Judges.
LINN, Circuit Judge.
ORDER
The parties jointly move to remand this appeal for
further proceedings.
Rambus, Inc. appeals from a decision of the Patent
Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) rejecting reexamined
claims 1-3, 8, 10-16, 18, 23-30, 36-38 and 40 of U.S. Pa-
tent No. 6,304,937 as obvious over the combination of
prior art references iAPX and Inagaki.
Subsequent to the Board’s decision here on appeal,
this court issued Rambus Inc. v. Rea, 731 F.3d 1248,
1255-1258 (Fed. Cir. 2013), which vacated the Board’s
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obviousness rejection of claims of a related patent based
on a similar combination of the iAPX and Inagaki refer-
ences, and remanded for further proceedings.
Because this court agrees with the parties that it
would be in the best interest for all involved to remand
this case to the Board for reconsideration of its decision in
light of Rambus, the motion to remand is granted.
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
(1) The motion is granted. The case is remanded for
additional proceedings consistent with this order.
(2) Each side shall bear its own costs.
(3) All other pending motions are moot.
FOR THE COURT
/s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
Daniel E. O’Toole
Clerk of Court
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ISSUED AS A MANDATE: January 31, 2014