This morning, the Federal Circuit released one nonprecedential opinion and five nonprecedential orders. The opinion comes in a case appealed from the Merit Systems Protection Board. As for today’s orders: two deny petitions for writs of mandamus, one directed to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the other to the Merit Systems Protection Board; one grants a motion for summary affirmance; one dismisses an appeal as untimely; and one dismisses an appeal for lack of jurisdiction. Here are the introductions to the opinion and orders.