United States Federal Circuit

In an inventorship action related to a chemotherapeutic agent, the district court erred in its determination of inventorship as to the true and rightful co-inventors of the subject matter in the patent, and in finding a patent unenforceable for inequitable conduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/23/2003
• Published 06/23/2003

Judges

• LOURIE, Circuit Judge., Before LOURIE, RADER, and LINN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey T. Thomas,Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, of Irvine, CA, argued for plaintiffs-appellees.   With him on the brief was Mark J. Carlozzi.   Of counsel on the brief was Sidney L. Matthew, Gorman & Matthew, P.A., of Tallahassee, Florida., Martin B. Sipple, Ausley & McMullen, P.A., of Tallahassee, FL, argued for defendant-appellant.   With him on the brief was Robert N. Clarke, Jr. Of counsel on the brief were Joseph F. Coyne, Jr. and Phillip A. Davis, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP, of Los Angeles, California.