United States Federal Circuit

In a patent dispute concerning television schedule listing displays, the International Trade Commission erred in finding that Scientific-Atlanta did not infringe on plaintiff's patents or satisfy the domestic industry requirement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/16/2004
• Published 09/16/2004

Judges

• LINN, Circuit Judge., Before MICHEL, CLEVENGER, and LINN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William F. Lee, Hale and Dorr LLP, of Boston, MA, argued for appellants.   With him on the brief was James L. Quarles, III. Of counsel on the brief were Morris Waisbrot and William F. Haigney, Hogan & Hartson LLP, of New York, NY. Of counsel were Mark G. Matuschak, Hale and Dorr LLP, of Boston, MA, and Joseph R. Baldwin, of Washington, DC;  and Douglas A. Donofrio, Hogan & Hartson LLP, of New York, NY., Harold J. McElhinny, Morrison & Foerster LLP, for intervenors EchoStar Communications Corporation and SCI Systems, Inc., argued for all intervenors.  Also on the brief for EchoStar, et al., were Rachel Krevans, Ronald P. Flynn, and Zachariah A. Higgins;  Stephen S. Dunham, of Denver, CO;  Charles S. Barquist, of Los Angeles, CA;  and John L. Kolakowski, of McLean, VA. Of counsel on the brief were F. David Foster and Sturgis M. Sobin, Miller & Chevalier Chartered, of Washington, DC. On the brief for intervenors Pioneer Corporation, Pioneer Digital Technologies, Inc., Pioneer North America, Inc., and Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. were David P. Swenson and John T. Battaglia, Kirkland & Ellis, of Washington, DC;  Robert G. Krupka, Alexander F. MacKinnon, and Lillian L. Lai, of Los Angeles, CA;  Laura A. TenBroeck, of Chicago, IL;  and Eric R. Lamison, of San Francisco, CA. On the brief for Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., was Joseph R. Bankoff, King & Spalding, of Atlanta, GA. Of counsel on the brief were V. James Adduci, II, Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, LLP, of Washington, DC;  Joseph M. Potenza, Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., of Washington, DC;  and Louis Norwood Jameson, Duane Morris LLP, of Atlanta, GA. Of counsel were Tom M. Schaumberg, Barbara A. Murphy, and Maureen F. Browne, Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, LLP, of Washington, DC;  and Frederic M. Meeker, Nina L. Medlock, Steve S. Chang, and Christopher B. Roth, Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., of Washington, DC.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wayne Herrington, Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, United States International Trade Commission, of Washington, DC, argued for appellee.   On the brief were Lyn M. Schlitt, General Counsel, James M. Lyons, Deputy General Counsel, and Michael Liberman, Attorney.   Of counsel was David I. Wilson, Attorney.