Case: 22-1335 Document: 56 Page: 1 Filed: 10/06/2023
NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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JODI A. SCHWENDIMANN, FKA JODI A. DALVEY,
Appellant
v.
STAHLS’, INC.,
Appellee
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2022-1335, 2022-1336, 2022-1429, 2022-1431
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Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. IPR2020-
00633, IPR2020-00635, IPR2020-00641, IPR2020-00644.
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JODI A. SCHWENDIMANN, FKA JODI A. DALVEY,
Appellant
v.
STAHLS’, INC.,
Appellee
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2022-1652
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Case: 22-1335 Document: 56 Page: 2 Filed: 10/06/2023
2 SCHWENDIMANN v. STAHLS’, INC.
Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2020-
01122.
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Before PROST, CLEVENGER, and CUNNINGHAM, Circuit
Judges.
CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge.
ORDER
Jodi A. Schwendimann owns U.S. Patent Nos.
RE41,623 (the “’623 patent”), 7,754,042 (the “’042 patent”),
7,766,475 (the “’475 patent”), and 7,749,581 (the “’581 pa-
tent”) (collectively, the “Appealed Patents”). Stahls’, Inc.
(“Stahls’”) petitioned for inter partes review of claims 1–5
and 6–14 and 16 of the ’623 patent, claims 16–22 of the ’042
patent, claims 1–16 and 18–19 of the ’475 patent, and
claims 1–2, 4–6, 8, and 11–12 of the ’581 patent. In its final
written decisions, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
(“Board”) held claims 1–3 and 5 1 and 6–7, 9–14, and 16 2 of
the ’623 patent, claims 16–22 of the ’042 patent, 3 claims 1–
15 and 18 of the ’475 patent, 4 and claims 1–2, 4–6, 8, and
11–12 of the ’581 patent 5 unpatentable. Ms. Schwend-
imann appeals the Board’s decisions.
1 Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
00641, 2021 WL 4877584 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 1, 2021).
2 Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
00633, 2021 WL 4860346 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 1, 2021).
3 Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
00635, 2021 WL 6300440 (P.T.A.B. Sept. 10, 2021).
4 Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
01122, 2021 WL 6340143 (P.T.A.B. Dec. 14, 2021).
5 Stahls’, Inc. v. Schwendimann, No. IPR2020-
00644, 2021 WL 6297786 (P.T.A.B. Sept. 10, 2021).
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In a decision issued today in an appeal from separate
inter partes reviews on the Appealed Patents, we affirmed
the Board’s decisions holding all claims of the ’623 patent,
the ’042 patent, and the ’475 patent and claims 1–6, 8–21,
and 24–31 of the ’581 patent unpatentable. Schwend-
imann v. Neenah, Inc., No. 2022-1333, slip op. 22, ––– F.4th
–––, ––– (Fed. Cir. Oct. 6, 2023). Thus, these appeals are
moot in light of that decision. See Already, LLC v. Nike,
Inc., 568 U.S. 85, 91 (2013) (“A case becomes moot—and
therefore no longer a Case or Controversy for purposes of
Article III—when the issues presented are no longer live or
the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the out-
come.” (cleaned up)); see also ArcelorMittal v. AK Steel
Corp., 856 F.3d 1365, 1370 (Fed. Cir. 2017); Cisco Sys., Inc.
v. TQ Delta, LLC, 928 F.3d 1359, 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2019);
Lone Star Silicon Innovations, LLC v. Nanya Tech. Corp.,
810 F. App’x 878, 879 (Fed. Cir. 2020) (nonprecedential).
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
Accordingly, these appeals are dismissed as moot in
light of our affirmance in Schwendimann v. Neenah, Inc.,
No. 2022-1333, slip op. 22, ––– F.4th –––, ––– (Fed. Cir.
Oct. 6, 2023), which renders unpatentable all of the claims
at issue in these appeals.
FOR THE COURT
October 6, 2023
Date