United States Federal Circuit

In an infringement action concerning a processes that downloads a screen of information from a remote mainframe computer onto a local personal computer, the district court correctly construed one patent's means plus function claims, but incorrectly construed the claims of two other patents covering similar but different subject matter.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/16/2003
• Published 10/16/2003

Judges

• RADER, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, MICHEL, and RADER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey I. Kaplan,Kaplan & Gilman, L.L.P., of Woodbridge, NJ, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief was Timothy X. Gibson.


• For Appellees:
  
• James H. Hulme, Art Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee.   With him on the brief was D. Jacques Smith.