United States Federal Circuit

In a patent infringement suit against defendants Google and AOL involving a patent describing a method for conducting a continuous auction, such as a consumers' auction on the internet for goods or services, or a vendors' auction for positions in an internet advertising display, a final judgment of noninfringement in favor of defendants is affirmed where there was no error in finding noninfringment by Google's internet advertising system, AdWords, which runs continuous auctions to determine the placement of advertisements on Google's search results pages.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2010
• Published 04/07/2010

Judges

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

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory S. Dovel, Dovel & Luner, LLP, of Santa Monica, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellant. Of counsel was David E. Rosen, Murphy Rosen & Meylan, LLP, of Santa Monica, CA.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles K. Verhoeven, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, of San Francisco, CA, argued for defendants-appellees. With him on the brief were David A. Perlson and Jamie L. Lisagor.