United States Federal Circuit

Judgment of noninfringement is affirmed. The accused products, which incorporate technology that facilitates the design of networks compliant with an explicitly hierarchical industry-standard architecture, were not shown to infringe the parallel network architecture required to meet numerous limitations of plaintiff's patent claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/31/2004
• Published 03/31/2004

Judges

• GAJARSA, Circuit Judge., Before RADER, BRYSON, and GAJARSA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David W. Denenberg, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., of New York, NY, argued for plaintiffs-appellants.   With him on the brief were Peter T. Cobrin and Oren J. Warshavsky.


• For Appellees:
  
• George A. Riley, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, of San Francisco, CA, argued for defendants-appellees Apple Computer, Inc. and on behalf of all defendants-appellees except Evergreen Technologies, Inc. and Quadmation Incorporated.   With him on the brief was Luann L. Simmons., Howard L. Bernstein, Sughrue Mion, PLLC, of Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee NEC Computers, Inc., Evan Finkel, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, of Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee Epson America, Inc. Of counsel was Andrew B. Grossman., Steven D. Glazer, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, of New York, NY, for defendant-appellee STMicroelectronics, Inc., David H. Pfeffer, Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P., of New York, New York, defendants-appellees Fujitsu PC Corporation, et al.   Of counsel were Walter G. Hanchuk and Stephen Joseph Manetta., Willem G. Schuurman, Vinson & Elkins, of Austin, TX, for defendants-appellees Dell Computer Corporation, et al.   Of counsel were David B. Weaver and Adam V. Floyd., James L. Wamsley, III, Jones Day, of Cleveland, OH, for defendants-appellees Texas Instruments Incorporated, et al.   Of counsel was David L. Witcoff, of Chicago, IL., Alan D. Smith, Fish & Richardson P.C., of Boston, MA, for defendant-appellee Adaptec, Inc. Of counsel were Richard P. Ferrara and John T. Johnson, Fish & Richardson, P.C., of New York, NY., Douglas B. Henderson, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., of Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees Compaq Computer Corporation, et al.   Of counsel were Roger D. Taylor, Douglas S. Weinstein, and R. Bruce Bower, Finnegan Henderson, etc., of Atlanta, GA., Jospeh F. Jennings, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, of Irvine, CA, for defendants ADS Technologies, Inc. Of counsel were Ryan N. Farr and Douglas G. Muehlhauser., Robert A. Appleby, Kirkland & Ellis, of New York, NY, for defendant-appellee Lucent Technologies, Inc. Of counsel was William C. Mercer., Adam B. Landa, Greenberg Traurig LLP, of New York, NY, for defendant-appellee SmartDisk Corporation., David Jason Lender, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, of New York, NY, for defendants-appellees JVC Americas Corp, et al., D. Michael Underhill, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, of Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee Nikon, Inc. Of counsel was Eric J. Maurer., James T. Williams, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, of New York, NY, for defendants Evergreen Technologies, Inc., et al.