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ASYST TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. EMTRAK, INC.

No. 2007-1554.

544 F.3d 1310 (2008)

ASYST TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EMTRAK, INC., Jenoptik AG, Jenoptik Infab, Inc., and Meissner + Wurst GmbH, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

October 10, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darryl M. Woo, Fenwick & West, LLP, of San Francisco, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief were Michael J. Sacksteder, and David D. Schumann; and Joseph S. Belichick, Fenwick & West, LLP, of Mountain View, California.

Daniel T. Shvodian, Howrey LLP, of East Palo Alto, CA, argued for defendants-appellees. With him on the brief were James F. Valentine; and Floyd R. Nation and Richard L. Stanley, of Houston, Texas.

Before MICHEL, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, and BRYSON, Circuit Judges.

BRYSON, Circuit Judge.

Asyst Technologies, Inc., is the assignee of U.S. Patent No. 5,097,421 ("the '421 patent"), entitled "Intelligent Wafer Carrier." The patent claims a system for tracking articles, such as silicon semiconductor wafers, in a manufacturing facility in which the wafers must be processed sequentially at a number of processing stations. The disclosed system includes transportable containers, or "pods," which contain wafers that are to be transported...

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