United States Federal Circuit

In a patent infringement appeal involving insulated shipping containers designed to carry items such as pharmaceuticals and human tissue, which must be transported at specific temperatures, summary judgment of noninfringement for defendant is affirmed over challenges to the district court's: 1) construction of certain patent terms; and 2) ruling that defendant's products do not infringe those claims as properly construed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/02/2007
• Published 05/02/2007

Judges

• FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and PROST, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James C. Brooks, Attorney, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, of Los Angeles, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief were Hope E. Melville and Mark J. Shean, of Irvine, CA.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edward R. Schwartz, Attorney, Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP, of Pasadena, CA, argued for defendant-appellee.