United States Federal Circuit

In a patent dispute over computerized callback systems designed to lower the cost of overseas telephone calls, summary judgment of invalidity and dismissal of trade secret appropriation claims are affirmed where: 1) plaintiff was not collaterally estopped from appealing the invalidity finding despite not having named all defendants in its appeal; 2) plaintiffs produced no evidence disputing a statement by the inventor regarding the date on which he had reduced the invention to practice; 3) sales of a device that embodied the patent claims subjected the patent to invalidation despite that device's not being ready for sale on a commercial scale; and 4) the statute of limitations barred plaintiff's claim for misappropriation of trade secrets.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/19/2008
• Published 08/19/2008

Judges

• BRYSON, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN and BRYSON, Circuit Judges, and POGUE, Judge.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John P. Sutton, of San Francisco, California, argued for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John C. Carey, Carey Rodriquez Greenberg & Paul, LLP, of Miami, Florida, and Gregory B. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., of Los Angeles, California, argued for all defendants-appellees., Matthew F. McGahren, McGahren, Gaskill & York, LLC, of Norcross, Georgia, for defendant-appellee Telesys Communications, LLC. Of counsel was Gregory B. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., of Los Angeles, California., John C. Carey, Carey Rodriquez Greenberg & Paul, LLP, of Miami, Florida, for defendant-appellee United World Telecom, L.C. Of counsel was Allison J. Cammack.   Also of counsel was Gregory B. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., of Los Angeles, California., Thomas T. Tamlyn, Jr., Yeskoo Hogan & Tamlyn, LLP, of New York, New York, for defendant-appellee World Link Companies.   Of counsel was Gregory B. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., of Los Angeles, California., Peter S. Canelias, of New York, New York, for defendant-appellee A.M.S. Voicecom, Inc. Of counsel was Gregory B. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., of Los Angeles, California., Kieran P. Fallon, Kieran P. Fallon, P.A., of Miami, Florida, for defendant-appellee Interactive Media Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a GlobalTel).   Of counsel was Gregory B. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., of Los Angeles, California., John F. Mardula, Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC, of Reston, Virginia, for defendants-appellees Voiceware Systems Corporation, et al.   Of counsel was Gregory B. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., of Los Angeles, California., Jeffrey L. Silvestrini, Cohne Rappaport & Segal, P.C., of Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendants-appellees Americom Communications, et al.   Of counsel was Gregory B. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., of Los Angeles, California., Gregory B. Wood, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., of Los Angeles, California, argued for defendant-appellee AT & T Corp. With him on the brief were Joseph P. Zammit, of New York, New York, and Jonathan S. Franklin, of Washington, DC.