United States Federal Circuit

In a patent dispute concerning weight lifting equipment, judgment for defendant is affirmed where plaintiff's patent claims are invalid as obvious.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2004
• Published 12/14/2004

Judges

• DYK, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge, and DYK, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian M. Daucher, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, of Costa Mesa, California, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief was Yael Karabelnik.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terril G. Lewis, Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P., of Houston, Texas, argued for defendant-appellee.   Of counsel was Louis Brucculeri.