United States Federal Circuit
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. v. Alpine Elec. of Am., Inc., 09-1544
In a patent infringement suit by Encyclopedia Britannica against various defendants, involving patents relating to a multimedia database search system for retrieving textual and graphical information, district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants in declaring the patents invalid as anticipated by foreign patent application is affirmed as section 120 requires each application in the chain of priority to refer to the prior applications, and here, the patents in suit cannot claim priority as the '955 application failed to specifically reference the earlier filed '917 application and did not claim priority to the '917 application.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/18/2010
- Published 06/18/2010
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Court
- United States Federal Circuit