Case: 20-1222 Document: 57 Page: 1 Filed: 08/26/2021
NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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APPLE INC., VISA INC., VISA U.S.A., INC.,
Appellants
v.
UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY LLC,
Appellee
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2020-1222, 2020-1234
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Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2018-
00810.
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Decided: August 26, 2021
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MARK D. SELWYN, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and
Dorr LLP, Palo Alto, CA, argued for all appellants. Appel-
lant Apple Inc. also represented by MONICA GREWAL, Bos-
ton, MA.
MATTHEW A. ARGENTI, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich &
Rosati, PC, Palo Alto, CA, for appellants Visa Inc., Visa
U.S.A., Inc. Also represented by MICHAEL T. ROSATO, Se-
attle, WA.
Case: 20-1222 Document: 57 Page: 2 Filed: 08/26/2021
2 APPLE INC. v. UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY LLC
CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &
Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued for appellee. Also
represented by TIGRAN GULEDJIAN.
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Before TARANTO, WALLACH, * and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
STOLL, Circuit Judge.
In our opinion in Universal Secure Registry LLC v. Ap-
ple, Inc., No. 20-2044 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 26, 2021), issued con-
comitantly with this opinion, we held all the claims at issue
in this appeal ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. For the
reasons we explained in Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com, Inc.,
976 F.3d 1316, 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2020), this appeal is ren-
dered moot in light of our decision in Universal Secure.
Thus, we vacate the Board’s final written decision and re-
mand for the Board to dismiss Apple’s petition.
VACATED AND REMANDED
COSTS
No costs.
*Circuit Judge Evan J. Wallach assumed senior sta-
tus on May 31, 2021.