United States Federal Circuit

A ruling in a patent case finding certain patent claims were invalid for indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. section 112 is affirmed where the claim limitation "control means" had no corresponding structure described in the specification as required by 35 U.S.C. section 112, paragraph 6.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2007
• Published 06/18/2007

Judges

• ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge., Before RADER, Circuit Judge, ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge, and GAJARSA, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alisa Anne Lipski, Goldstein, Faucett & Prebeg, LLP, of Houston, Texas, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   On the brief was Edward W. Goldstein.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert P. Taylor, Howrey LLP, of East Palo Alto, CA, argued for defendant-appellee, General Electric Company (d/b/a GE Healthcare), and all other defendants-appellees.   With him on the brief for General Electric Company were Matthew M. Wolf, Howrey LLP, of Washington DC, Wallace Wu, of Los Angeles, CA, and Richard L. Stanley, of Houston, TX. With him on the brief for Waters Technologies Corporation were Aslan Baghdadi, Lawrence J. Gotts, and June E. Cohan, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, of Washington, DC. With him on the brief for Agilent Technologies, Incorporated, were James W. Geriak, Kurt T. Mulville, and Hardip B. Passananti, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, of Irvine, CA. Of counsel was Joseph K. Liu.