United States Federal Circuit

In a patent dispute concerning a system for dispensing debit cards through terminals, summary judgment against plaintiff is affirmed where the patent is invalid for failure to meet the definiteness requirement of 35 U.S.C. section 112.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/16/2005
• Published 06/16/2005

Judges

• MICHEL, Chief Judge., Before MICHEL, Chief Judge, LOURIE and BRYSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Raymond P. Niro, Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, of Chicago, Illinois, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief was John C. Janka.   Of counsel was Sally Wiggins.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin M. Flowers, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP, of Chicago, Illinois, argued for defendant-appellee Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. With him on the brief was Mark H. Izraelewicz.   Of counsel on the brief was Robert B. Dulaney, III, Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia., David E. Sipiora, Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, of Denver, Colorado, argued for defendants-appellees Sam's East, Inc., et al.   With him on the brief was Kenneth S. Chang.