United States Federal Circuit

In patent claims, directed to systems that allow a computer user to access and search a database residing on a remote computer, 1) invention demonstrations amounted to invalidating public uses, and 2) claims were invalid under the on-sale bar where a commercial offer to sell was made at the time the invention was ready for patenting.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/09/2002
• Published 07/09/2002

Judges

• MAYER, Chief Judge., Before MAYER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and PROST, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John D. Vandenberg,Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, of Portland, OR, argued for plaintiff/counterclaim defendant-appellee, Microsoft Corporation.   With him on the brief was Kristin L. Cleveland.   Of counsel on the brief were Charles K. Verhoeven, and Jennifer K. Hartog, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, of San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff/counterclaim defendant-appellee, Netscape Communications Corporation, and counterclaim defendant-appellee, America Online, Inc. Of counsel was T. Andrew Culbert, Microsoft Corporation, of Redmond, Washington., Susan Marie Spaeth, Townsend and Townsend, of Palo Alto, CA, argued for defendant/counterclaimant-appellant.   On the brief were Scott R. Campbell, and Oriet Cohen Supple, Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, L.L.P., of San Francisco, CA;  and William D. Cramer, Richard G. Urquhart, and Brett A. Wallingford, Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, L.L.P., of Dallas, TX.