United States Federal Circuit

Prosecution history will bar a holder of a concrete pump patent from asserting that one accused devices infringes the patent, but further determination is needed as to whether a second device infringes under the doctrine of equivalents.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/24/2002
• Published 09/24/2002

Judges

• BRYSON, Circuit Judge., Before CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge, PLAGER, Senior Circuit Judge, and BRYSON, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas H. Jenkins,Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief was F. Leslie Bessenger III, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., of Atlanta, GA.


• For Appellees:
  
• George H. Solveson, Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP, of Milwaukee, WI, argued for defendants-appellees.   Of counsel on the brief was Walter M. Schey, Law Office of Walter M. Schey, of San Francisco, CA.