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`NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.
`
`United States Court of Appeals
`for the Federal Circuit
`______________________
`
`JUAN RODRIGUEZ,
`Appellant
`
`v.
`
`THE COCA-COLA COMPANY,
`Appellee
`______________________
`
`2020-1659
`______________________
`
`Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
`Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in No.
`92057485.
`
`______________________
`
`ON MOTION
`______________________
`
`Before O’MALLEY, WALLACH, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
`
`
`PER CURIAM.
`
`O R D E R
` The Coca-Cola Company responds to this court’s show
`cause order and moves to dismiss this appeal for lack of
`jurisdiction. Juan Rodriguez has not timely responded to
`either the show cause order or the motion.
`
`
`
`
`
`
`
`Case: 20-1659 Document: 14 Page: 2 Filed: 05/20/2020
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`
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`RODRIGUEZ v. COCA-COLA COMPANY
`
`In November 2019, Mr. Rodriguez filed at the Trade-
`
`mark Trial and Appeal Board a motion for relief from a
`prior judgment of the Board canceling Mr. Rodriguez’s
`mark. Specifically, that motion contended that the judg-
`ment should be vacated because the Board’s judges were
`unconstitutionally appointed. On December 6, 2019, the
`Board ordered that the underlying proceedings be stayed
`pending the outcome of other matters in which the same
`Appointments Clause issue had been raised. Mr. Rodri-
`guez appears to be seeking review of that order.
`Section 1295(a)(4) of title 28 of the U.S. Code provides
`this court with jurisdiction over “an appeal from a decision
`of . . . the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.” Such a de-
`cision, under this court’s precedent, must be a “final deci-
`sion,” in that it puts an end to the litigation before the
`Board. Copelands’ Enters., Inc. v. CNV, Inc., 887 F.2d
`1065, 1067–68 (Fed. Cir. 1989) (en banc) (citations omit-
`ted); see also Int’l Order of Job’s Daughters v. Lindeburg &
`Co., 687 F.2d 436, 437 (CCPA 1982). The Board’s order
`here clearly did not “put an end to the litigation before the
`Board.” Copelands’, 887 F.2d at 1068. Rather, it merely
`deferred consideration of the motion for relief from the
`judgment until the same challenge is decided in other
`cases. Because no final, appealable decision has been is-
`sued, we must dismiss.
`
`Accordingly,
`
`IT IS ORDERED THAT:
`(1) The motion to dismiss is granted. The appeal is
`dismissed.
`
`
`
`
`
`
`
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`Case: 20-1659 Document: 14 Page: 3 Filed: 05/20/2020
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`RODRIGUEZ v. COCA-COLA COMPANY
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`(2) Each side shall bear its own costs.
`
`FOR THE COURT
`
`
`May 20, 2020
`/s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
`Date
`Peter R. Marksteiner
`Clerk of Court
`
`
`
`
`
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`s31
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`ISSUED AS A MANDATE: May 20, 2020
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