United States Fourth Circuit

In a claim for litigation proceeds recovered in a patent-infringement suit, summary judgment in favor of plaintiff, denying defendant-foreign corporation's right to the proceeds, is reversed where the district court lacked jurisdiction over the claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/28/2004
• Published 10/28/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, MOTZ, Circuit Judge, and C. Arlen BEAM, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Thomas Joseph Hall, Chadbourne & Parke, L.L.P., New York, New York, for Appellant.  John Patrick Rowley, III, Holland & Knight, L.L.P., McLean, Virginia;  Robert Powel Trout, Trout & Richards, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Gregory J. Kerr, Jennifer L. Frattini, Chadbourne & Parke, L.L.P., New York, New York;  Paul B. Terpak, David J. Gogal, Blankingship & Keith, Fairfax, Virginia, for Appellant.  Richard O. Duvall, Jennifer A. Short, Robert T. Hicks, Holland & Knight, L.L.P., McLean, Virginia;  John Thorpe Richards, Jr., Trout & Richards, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Appellees.