United States Federal Circuit

In a patent infringement case involving aviation electronics, specifically terrain warning systems, rulings invalidating certain claims and finding no infringement of patents owned by Honeywell are vacated in part where the district court erred in its claim construction of certain terms.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/25/2007
• Published 05/25/2007

Judges

• RADER, Circuit Judge., Before RADER, GAJARSA, and DYK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven D. McCormick, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, of Chicago, IL, argued for plaintiffs-appellants.   With him on the brief was Christopher Landau, of Washington, DC. Of counsel on the brief was Sarah Sklover, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP, of New York, NY. Of counsel was John C. O'Quinn.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott J. Bornstein, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, of New York, NY, argued for defendant-cross appellant Universal Avionics Systems Corp. With him on the brief was William G.Todd., Howard G. Pollack, Fish & Richardson P.C., of Redwood City, CA, argued for defendant-cross appellant Sandel Avionics, Inc. With him on the brief were Frank E. Scherkenbach, of Boston, MA, Michael R. Headley, of Redwood, CA, and John A. Dragseth, of Minneapolis, MN.