United States Federal Circuit

Dismissal of an action involving a licensing dispute regarding certain catheters is affirmed on jurisdictional grounds where the district court acted within its discretion in finding that the case would more conveniently be brought in Germany, with potential return to forums in the United States should a German forum be unavailable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/02/2006
• Published 03/02/2006

Judges

• PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, LOURIE, and RADER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruce Tittel, Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P., of Cincinnati, Ohio, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief were Thomas J. Burger, Clement H. Luken, Jr., John Paul Davis.   Of counsel on the brief were James F. Roegge and Jeffrey M. Thompson, Meagher & Geer, P.L.L.P., of Minneapolis, Minnesota.


• For Appellees:
  
• Glen D. Nager, Jones Day, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee, Pfizer, Inc. With him on the brief was Todd R. Geremia, of New York, New York., Matthew M. Wolf, Howrey Simon Arnold & White LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for defendants-appellees, Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., et al.