NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

IN RE AMMAR AL-ALI, DON CAROTHERS, DAVID DALKE, MOHAMED K. DIAB, JULIAN M. GOLDMAN, MASSI E. KIANI, MICHAEL LEE, JEROME NOVAK, ROBERT SMITH, AND VAL E. VADEN ____________________

2011-1086 (Serial No. 10/153,263) ______________________

Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________

JOSEPH R. RE, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, of Irvine, California, argued for appellant. With him on the brief were JOSEPH S. CIANFRANI, JOHN M. GROVER and CHRISTINA J. MCCULLOUGH; and COLIN B. HEIDEMAN, of Seattle, Washington.

MARY L. KELLY, Associate Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, of Alexandria, Virginia, argued for appellee. With her on the brief were RAYMOND T. CHEN, Solicitor and JOSEPH G. PICCOLO, Associate Solicitor. Of counsel was SYDNEY O. JOHNSON, JR., Associate Solicitor. ______________________ THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, SCHALL and BRYSON, Circuit Judges).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

March 7, 2012 /s/ Jan Horbaly Date Jan Horbaly Clerk