United States Federal Circuit

In a patent infringement case involving technology that relates to the ability to create, modify, and store database records over a computer network, the district court's order granting summary judgment of invalidity of the patents-in-suit is affirmed, as all the claims were either anticipated or rendered obvious by prior art, where: 1) the district court's claim construction of "database" was both reasonable and supported by the context; and 2) the district court's analysis of the "database" term adequately supported the court's assessment that there was no triable issue of fact as to whether the prior art was a database as used in the claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/02/2012
• Published 03/02/2012

Judges

• Plager

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin B. Collins, Michael D. Rounds