United States Federal Circuit

In a patent dispute involving a system and method for computerized handwriting recognition, summary judgment of invalidity for anticipation and obviousness is reversed and remanded where there were genuine issues of material fact remaining in dispute with regard to whether prior art disclosed all of the relevant claim limitations, and summary judgment holding certain claims invalid for indefiniteness is reversed where the claims at issue were not insolubly ambiguous.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/08/2006
• Published 06/08/2006

Judges

• BRYSON, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, RADER, and BRYSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald R. Dunner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief were Thomas H. Jenkins;  and R. Bruce Bower, of Atlanta, Georgia.   Of counsel on the brief were James A. Oliff, Edward P. Walker, and Richard E. Rice, Oliff & Berridge, PLC, of Alexandria, Virginia.


• For Appellees:
  
• William F. Lee, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, of Boston, Massachusetts, argued for defendants-appellees.   With him on the brief were Mark G. Matuschak, Richard W. O'Neill, and John M. Golden;  and James L. Quarles III, of Washington, DC.