United States Federal Circuit

Plaintiff's lease of a computer program and telecommunications network, which performed similarly to what plaintiff claimed in a patent directed to a computerized securities trading system, operates as an anticipatory statutory bar to the claimed invention because it claims subject matter that was on sale more than one year prior to the filing of the patent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2003
• Published 07/29/2003

Judges

• Before LOURIE, GAJARSA and LINN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter L. Brewer,Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP, of Houston, TX, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   On the brief was Jerry W. Gunn, Law Office of Jerry W. Gunn, of Houston, TX.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randall L. Sarosdy, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., of Austin, TX, argued for defendants-appellees.   With him on the brief was Gregory C. Mathis.   Of counsel on the brief were Daniel Joseph and Beth H. Wilensky, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., of Washington, DC.