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Appellants SAP AG and SAP America, Inc. (“SAP”) filed an interlocutory appeal from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas finding that Sky Technologies LLC has standing to bring a patent infringement suit in the district court. Because the district court correctly relied on the holding in Akazawa v. Link New Technology International, Inc., 520 F.3d 1354 (Fed. Cir. 2008), to determine that patent ownership was properly transferred by operation of state foreclosure law, giving Appellee clear title to the patents-in-suit and therefore standing in the underlying case, we affirm.

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