United States Federal Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants in a case brought by plaintiff seeking to be added as a co-inventor on certain patent claims involving the treatment of glaucoma is affirmed where the evidence plaintiff presented was insufficient to corroborate his claim of co-inventorship.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/17/2006
• Published 01/17/2006

Judges

• MAYER, Circuit Judge., Before MAYER, RADER, and LINN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald W. Niles, Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A., of Minneapolis, Minnesota.   With him on the brief was Norman M. Abramson.


• For Appellees:
  
• John P. White, Cooper & Dunham LLP, of New York, New York, argued for defendants-appellees.   With him on the brief were Peter D. Murray and Robert T. Maldonado.   Of counsel on the brief were George A. Davidson and John Fellas, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, of New York, New York.