United States Federal Circuit

In a patent infringement dispute concerning eye drops, judgment of validity in favor of plaintiff is reversed where the district court committed legal error in establishing certain factual predicates to its non-obviousness determination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2005
• Published 05/18/2005

Judges

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

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David J. Harth, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP, of Madison, Wisconsin, argued for plaintiffs-appellees.   With him on the brief were Alexander L. Brainerd, Keith R. Weed, and Olga Rodstein, of Menlo Park, California, and Christine Saunders Haskett, of San Francisco, California., Manny D. Pokotilow, Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, LTD., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, argued for defendants-appellants.   With him on the brief were Robert S. Silver, Alan H. Bernstein, Mona Gupta and William J. Castillo.   Of counsel on the brief was Ronald S. Lemieux, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., of Palo Alto, California.