United States Sixth Circuit

In a university's suit claiming that defendants misappropriated plaintiff's rights and interests in a type of medical-scanning technology that the university alleged was collaboratively invented at its campus over a period of several years, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where the causes of action at issue were barred by the applicable statutes of limitations, and no exceptions to the statutes applied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2008
• Published 09/09/2008

Judges

• Before:  BOGGS, Chief Judge;  RYAN and COLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David G. Oberdick, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellant.  Daniel F. Diffley, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  David G. Oberdick, Andrew L. Noble, Stacey M. Noble, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andrew R. Tillman, Paine, Tarwater, Bickers & Tillman, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant.  Daniel F. Diffley, Samuel R. Rutherford, Randall L. Allen, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Georgia, J. Chadwick Hatmaker, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellees.