Background
The appeals originated from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, involving three separate inter partes review cases numbered IPR2024-00329, IPR2024-00330, and IPR2024-00331. Carbyne Biometrics, LLC appealed the Board’s decisions to the Federal Circuit, while Apple Inc. was the appellee.
The court’s reasoning
The court issued a nonprecedential order stating that the parties had agreed to the dismissal. The proceedings were dismissed under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure forty-two, subsection b, without further judicial analysis of the underlying patent disputes.
What it means going forward
The dismissal terminates the appellate litigation regarding the three inter partes review proceedings, leaving the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s prior determinations in place as the final administrative outcome.
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