United States Federal Circuit

In a patent suit involving heart defibrillators, judgment as a matter of law for defendant is reversed where the patent is not invalid for obviousness and the best mode requirement has not been violated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2004
• Published 08/31/2004

Judges

• PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and RADER, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arthur I. Neustadt, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., of Alexandria, VA, for plaintiff-appellant Anna Mirowski, argued for plaintiffs-appellants.   With him on the brief was Jeffrey B. McIntyre.   Of counsel on the brief was Richard R. McDowell, Hill, Fulwider, McDowell, Funk & Matthews, of Indianapolis, IN. Also on the brief were J. Michael Jakes and Kara F. Stoll, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., of Washington, DC, for plaintiffs-appellants Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Denis R. Salmon, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, of Palo Alto, California, argued for defendants-cross appellants.   With him on the brief was H. Mark Lyon. Also on the brief was Mark A. Perry, of Washington, DC. Of counsel on the brief were Jeffrey M. Olson, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, of Los Angeles, CA, and Michael I. Rackman, Gottlieb, Rackman & Reisman, P.C., of New York, NY.