United States Federal Circuit

Patent, Intellectual Property

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2005
• Published 04/22/2005

Judges

• Before NEWMAN, BRYSON, and DYK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven M. Hoffer, of San Diego, California, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• I. Neel Chatterjee, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, of Menlo Park, California, for defendant-appellee Microsoft Corporation.   On the brief was Joseph T. Jakubek, Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, of Portland, Oregon.   Of counsel was Isabella Fu, Microsoft Corporation, of Redmond, Washington., Charles K. Verhoeven, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, of San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee International Business Machines Corporation.   With him on the brief were Robert W. Stone and W. Paul Schuck., Neil A. Smith, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady Falk & Rabkin, P.C., of San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee Ariba, Incorporated.