United States Federal Circuit

A judgment for defendants in a patent infringement case is affirmed in part, reversed in part, and vacated in part in a case alleging that defendants' combination of microprocessors or chipsets with other computer components infringed plaintiff's patents covering those combinations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/07/2006
• Published 07/07/2006

Judges

• MAYER, Circuit Judge., Before MICHEL, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, and MAYER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard G. Taranto, Farr & Taranto, of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   On the brief was Michael J. Schaengold, Patton Boggs LLP, of Washington, DC., Joel E. Lutzker, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, of New York, New York, for amicus curiae Minebea Co., Ltd. With him on the brief were David H. Kagan and Richard Chern., Steven E. Feldman, Welsh & Katz, Ltd., of Chicago, Illinois, for amicus curiae Papst Licensing GmbH & Co. KG.


• For Appellees:
  
• William J. Anthony, Jr., Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, of Menlo Park, California, argued for defendants-cross appellants Bizcom Electronics, Inc., et al.   With him on the brief were Eric L. Wesenberg, Kaiwen Tseng, Matthew J. Hult and Rowena Y. Young., Joseph L. Strabala, Law offices of Joseph L. Strabala, of San Francisco, California for defendant-appellee Everex Systems, Inc., joined in the co-defendants' briefs., Ronald S. Lemieux, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, of Palo Alto, California for defendants-cross appellants First International Computer, Inc., et al.   Of counsel on the brief was James M. Smith, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., of Palo Alto, California., Terry D. Garnett, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, of Los Angeles, California for defendants-cross appellants Q-Lity Computer, Inc., et al.   With him on the brief were Vinent K. Yip, Maxwell A. Fox, Peter J. Wied, Sang N. Dang and Jay C. Chiu. Of counsel was Jeffrey D. Mills, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., of Austin, Texas.