United States Fifth Circuit

Denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a dispute over a patent licensing agreement is reversed and remanded where there was a legitimate argument that an arbitration clause covered the present dispute, and the resolution of that argument should have been submitted to an arbitrator.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2009
• Published 02/19/2009

Judges

• LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and OWEN and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ian L. Saffer, David E. Sipiora (argued), Daniel Shaw Young, Kenneth S. Chang, Shelley B. Mixon, Townsend, Townsend & Crew, LLP, Denver, CO, Charles L. Ainsworth, Robert Christopher Bunt, Robert M. Parker, Parker, Bunt & Ainsworth, PC, Tyler, TX, Sidney Calvin Capshaw, Capshaw DeRieux, Longview, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Eric Miller Albritton, Albritton Law Firm, Longview, TX, Edward J. DeFranco, Kathleen Marie Sullivan (argued), Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, Oliver & Hedges, New York City, Kevin P.B. Johnson, Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, Oliver & Hedges, Redwood Shores, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.