United States Federal Circuit

<'*?;-ld of Patent Appeals and Interferences did not err in concluding that appellant failed to show: (1) that appellee was not entitled to a claimed filing date; and, (2) that appellant reduced an invention to practice before appellee's priority date.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/29/2003
• Published 01/29/2003

Judges

• LOURIE, Circuit Judge., Before LOURIE, Circuit Judge, FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and PROST, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sharon E. Crane,Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, LLP, of Alexandria, VA, argued for appellant.   With her on the brief were R. Danny Huntington, Bruce T. Wieder, and Donna M. Meuth.


• For Appellees:
  
• Debra A. Shetka, Morrison & Foerster LLP, of Palo Alto, CA, argued for appellee.   With her on the brief was Thomas E. Ciotti.   Of counsel on the brief were Rachel Krevans and Jill Neiman, Morrison & Foerster LLP, of San Francisco, CA. Also of counsel on the brief were Robert P. Blackburn and Joseph H. Guth, Chiron Corporation, of Emeryville, CA.