TAURUS IP, LLC v. DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORP.

Nos. 2008-1462, 2008-1463, 2008-1464, 2008-1465.

726 F.3d 1306 (2013)

TAURUS IP, LLC (now known as Manufacturing System Technologies, LLC), Plaintiff/Third Party Defendant-Appellant, and Orion IP, LLC (now known as Clear With Computers LLC) and Erich Spangenberg, Third Party Defendants-Appellants, v. DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORPORATION, Chrysler Financial, LLC, and DaimlerChrysler Company, LLC, Defendants, and Chrysler Holding, LLC, Defendant, and Mercedes-Benz USA, Inc. and Chrysler Group LLC, Defendants/Third Party Plaintiffs-Cross Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

August 9, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon E. Wright , Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC, of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiff/third party defendant-appellant. With him on the brief was Bryon L. Pickard.

Paul H. Berghoff , McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff, LLP, of Chicago, IL, argued for third party defendant-appellants. With him on the brief were Jeremy E. Noe and Kurt W. Rhode. Of counsel on the brief was Elizabeth A. Wiley , The Wiley Firm PC, of Austin, TX.

Mitchell G. Stockwell , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, of Atlanta, GA, argued for defendant/third party plaintiff-cross appellant, Mercedes-Benz USA, Inc. and Megan S. Woodworth , Dickstein Shapiro LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant/third party plaintiff-cross appellant, Chrysler Group LLC. On the brief was Frank C. Cimino, Jr. , Dickstein Shapiro LLP, of Washington, DC, for defendant/third party plaintiff-cross appellant, Chrysler Group LLC. Of counsel were Bonnie M. Grant , Vaibhav P. Kadaba , Ronald L. Raider and Vanessa M. Spencer , Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, of Atlanta, GA, for defendants/third party plaintiffs-cross appellants.

Before PROST, SCHALL, and REYNA, Circuit Judges.


SCHALL, Circuit Judge.

These appeals come to us from the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. There, in two separate actions, Taurus IP, LLC ("Taurus") sued various defendants, alleging that their external websites infringed independent claim 16, as well as dependent claims 19, 22, 23, and 27, of Taurus's U.S. Patent No. 6,141,658 (the "'658 patent"). The '658 patent generally relates to "a computer system for managing product knowledge...

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