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NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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ACQIS, LLC,
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
EMC CORPORATION,
Defendant-Appellee
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2021-1772
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
District of Massachusetts in No. 1:14-cv-13560-ADB, Judge
Allison Dale Burroughs.
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Decided: May 18, 2022
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JONATHAN WEINBERG, King & Spalding LLP, Washing-
ton, DC, argued for plaintiff-appellant. Also represented
by JAMES P. BROGAN, Denver, CO; THOMAS FRIEL, ANNE M.
VOIGTS, Palo Alto, CA.
MARK ANDREW PERRY, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP,
Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee. Also rep-
resented by BRIAN BUROKER, VLADIMIR J. SEMENDYA;
NATHAN ROBERT CURTIS, Dallas, TX; KATHERINE QUINN
DOMINGUEZ, BENJAMIN HERSHKOWITZ, JOSH KREVITT,
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BRIAN ROSENTHAL, PAUL E. TORCHIA, New York, NY;
JESSICA A. HUDAK, Irvine, CA; THOMAS A. BROWN, Dell Inc.,
Hopkington, MA.
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Before LOURIE, MAYER, and CHEN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
ACQIS, LLC appeals from the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts’s grant of summary
judgment of noninfringement in favor of EMC Corporation.
ACQIS, LLC v. EMC Corp., No. 14-CV-13560-ADB, 2021
WL 1088207 (D. Mass. Feb. 19, 2021). We find no error in
the district court’s decision and, as such, we affirm.
We specifically adopt the district court’s constructions
of the terms “Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
bus transaction,” “encoded . . . serial bit stream of Periph-
eral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus transaction,” “com-
municating . . . PCI bus transaction,” and related terms as
they appear in the asserted claims of the eight patents at
issue: U.S. Patent Nos. 7,363,416; 7,818,487; 8,041,873;
RE41,294; RE42,814; RE43,119; RE43,171; and
RE44,468. 1 See ACQIS, 2021 WL 1088207, at *2–6.
1 The asserted claims use slight variations on these
terms. For example, claim 60 of the ’416 patent requires
“communicating encoded serialized Peripheral Component
Interconnect (PCI) bus transaction data,” “wherein the se-
rial bit stream of PCI bus transaction comprises encoded
PCI address and data bits”; claim 49 of the ’487 patent re-
quires “serial bit channels” that “transmit an encoded data
of Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus transac-
tion”; claim 29 of the ’873 patent requires transmission of
an “encoded Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus
transaction as serial data”; and claim 44 of the ’294 patent
requires communicating “data on the serial channels
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Because the district court’s determination that the accused
EMC products do not infringe the asserted claims flows di-
rectly from its claim constructions and because ACQIS’s ar-
guments on appeal are directed only to those constructions,
we affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment.
AFFIRMED
comprising encoded bit stream of Peripheral Component
Interconnect (PCI) bus transaction.” We believe that the
district court was correct in treating these related terms
similarly.
Acqis, LLC v. Emc Corporation
Combined Opinion