NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

ATSER RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

RABA-KISTNER CONSULTANTS, INC., RABA- KISTNER INFRASTRUCTURE, INC., RABA- KISTNER-ANDERSON CONSULTANTS, INC. (formerly known as Raba-Kistner Consultants (SW), Inc.), BRYTEST LABORATORIES, INC. (doing business as Raba-Kistner-Brytest Consultants, Inc.), and LONE STAR INFRASTRUCTURE, JOINT VENTURE, Defendants-Appellees. ____________________

2011-1590 ______________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas in No. 07-CV-093, Judge Harry Lee Hudspeth. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________

ERIC M. ADAMS, Mehaffy Weber, P. C., of Houston, Texas, argued for plaintiff-appellant. JOHN P. MORAN, Holland & Knight, LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for defendants-appellees. With him on the brief was KAREN BOYD WILLIAMS. Of counsel on the brief was JOSHUA C. KRUMHOLZ, of Boston, Massachusetts. ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and PLAGER, Circuit Judges).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

June 8, 2012 /s/ Jan Horbaly Date Jan Horbaly Clerk