United States Federal Circuit

In a patent dispute, summary judgment for defendant based on lack of standing is vacated where issues of Japanese intestacy law must be resolved by the district court in order to determine whether plaintiff owned the patent at issue, and therefore possessed standing to bring the present suit.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/31/2008
• Published 03/31/2008

Judges

• ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge, and LINN, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• R. Joseph Trojan, Trojan Law Offices, of Beverly Hills, CA, argued for plaintiffs-appellants.   Of counsel was Dylan C. Dang.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael D. Paul, Gunn & Lee, P.C., of San Antonio, TX, argued for defendant-appellee.   Of counsel was Ted D. Lee. On the brief was Tom S. Chun, Law Office of Tom S. Chun, of Irvine, CA.