NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

DRAGON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LLC, Appellant

v.

UNIFIED PATENTS, INC., Appellee ______________________

2016-1813 ______________________

Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2014- 01252. ______________________

Decided: November 1, 2017 ______________________

LEI MEI, Mei & Mark LLP, Washington, DC, argued for appellant. Also represented by LAURENCE M. SANDELL.

MICHAEL KIKLIS, Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neu- stadt, LLP, Alexandria, VA, argued for appellee. Also represented by LISA MANDRUSIAK, CHRISTOPHER RICCIUTI; JONATHAN RUDOLPH KOMINEK STROUD, Unified Patents Inc., Washington, DC. ______________________ 2 DRAGON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY v. UNIFIED PATENTS, INC.

Before MOORE, MAYER, and STOLL, Circuit Judges. STOLL, Circuit Judge. Dragon Intellectual Property appeals the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s determination that claims 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 13, and 14 of U.S. Patent No. 5,930,444 are invalid. Our decision today in a related case, Dragon Intellectual Property, LLC v. DISH Network LLC et al., Nos. 2016- 2468, -2492, affirms the Board’s determination that claims 1–4, 7–10, 13, and 14 of the ’444 patent are inva- lid. Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal as moot. DISMISSED AS MOOT COSTS No costs.