United States Federal Circuit

In a patent dispute, the Court reversed the district court's denial of defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law on a joint inventorship claim since there was not sufficient evidence in the record to support the jury's conclusion that plaintiff's scientist was a joint inventor of a patent for the insulin analog "lispro".

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2004
• Published 07/20/2004

Judges

• Before LOURIE, CLEVENGER, and GAJARSA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald E. Knebel,Barnes & Thornburg, of Indianapolis, IN, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief were Todd G. Vare and Erin Roth Bohannon.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory A. Castanias, Jones Day, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-cross appellant.   With him on the brief were Tharan Gregory Lanier of Menlo Park, CA, and Todd Geremia of New York, NY.