*1 N OTE : This disposition is nonprecedential. United States Court of Appeals

for the Federal Circuit ______________________ IN RE: JOERG ROCKENBERGER, MAO TAKASHIMA, FABIO ZURCHER, KEVIN HUBERT, KLAUS KUNZE, WENZHUO GUO, BRENT RIDLEY,

Appellants ______________________ 2017-1035 ______________________ Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. 10/789,274.

______________________ JUDGMENT ______________________ A NDREW D AVID F ORTNEY , Central California IP Group, PC, Fresno, CA, argued for appellants.

B RIAN R ACILLA , Office of the Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, argued for appellee Joseph Matal. Also represented by N ATHAN K.

K ELLEY , T HOMAS W. K RAUSE , R OBERT M C B RIDE .

______________________ T HIS C AUSE having been heard and considered, it is O RDERED and A DJUDGED :

P ER C URIAM (T ARANTO , C LEVENGER , and S TOLL , Cir- cuit Judges ).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36. E NTERED BY O RDER OF THE C OURT November 14, 2017 /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner Date Peter R. Marksteiner

Clerk of Court