ASYST TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. EMPAK, INC.

No. 00-1514.

268 F.3d 1364 (2001)

ASYST TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EMPAK, INC., Defendant, and Emtrak, Inc., Jenoptik AG, Jenoptik Infab, Inc., Jenoptik GMBH and Infab U.S. Operations, Inc., and Meissner & Wurst, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

October 10, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Renne, Cooley Godward LLP, of San Francisco, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief were Matthew B. Lehr, Lori R.E. Ploeger, and Jonathan H. Takei. Of counsel on the brief were Darryl M. Woo, Fenwick & West, of Palo Alto, CA.

Gerald H. Kiel, ReedSmith, LLP, of New York, NY, argued for defendants-appellees. Of counsel were Stephen Chin, Eugene Ledonne, Arthur Dresner, and Richard Mario Ballerini, of ReedSmith, LLP, New York, NY.

Before NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge, and BRYSON, Circuit Judge.


BRYSON, Circuit Judge.

Asyst Technologies, Inc., filed suit against Jenoptik AG and other parties (collectively, "Jenoptik") in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, charging Jenoptik with infringing Asyst's U.S. Patent Nos. 4,974,166 ("the '166 patent") and 5,097,421 ("the '421 patent"). On Jenoptik's motion for summary judgment, the district court ruled that the accused device made by...

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