NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

COMPRESSION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

EMC CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee,

AND

NETAPP, INC., Defendant-Appellee,

AND

QUANTUM CORP., Defendant-Appellee. ______________________

2013-1513 ______________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in No. 12-CV-1746, Senior Judge Ronald M. Whyte. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________ PAUL A. LESKO, Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides & Barnerd, LLC, of Alton, Illinois, argued for plaintiff- appellant. With him on the brief was SARAH S. BURNS.

CLEMENT S. ROBERTS, Durie Tangri, LLP, of San Francisco, California, argued for all defendants-appellees. With him on the brief were MARK A. LEMLEY, Durie Tangri LLP, for Quantum Corporation; JESSE J. JENNER and KHUE V. HOANG, Ropes & Gray, LLP, of New York, New York, for EMC Corporation; and GREGORY S. BISHOP and THOMAS F. FITZPATRICK, Pepper Hamilton, LLP, of Redwood City, California, and DOUGLAS B. LUFTMAN, Netapp, Inc., of Sunnyvale, California, for NetApp, Inc. ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (PROST, MAYER, and CHEN, Circuit Judges).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

March 10, 2014 /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole Date Daniel E. O’Toole Clerk of Court