CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. v. LEE

Nos. 2012-1513, 2012-1514, 2012-1297.

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC., Appellant, v. MICHELLE K. LEE, Deputy Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Appellee, v. TELES AG INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIEN, Cross-Appellant. IN RE TELES AG INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIEN AND SIGRAM SCHINDLER BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: February 21, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. ANTHONY DOWNS , Goodwin Procter LLP, of Boston, Massachusetts, argued for appellant Cisco Systems, Inc. With him on the brief were LANA S. SHIFERMAN and KENNETH E. RADCLIFFE .

AMY J. NELSON , Associate Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, of Alexandria, Virginia, argued for appellee. With her on the brief were NATHAN K. KELLEY , Deputy Solicitor, and SCOTT C. WEIDENFELLER , Associate Solicitor. Of counsel was SYDNEY O. JOHNSON, JR. , Associate Solicitor.

MICHAEL D. KAMINSKI , Foley & Lardner LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for appellant and cross appellant Teles AG Informationstechnologien, et al. With him on the brief were HOWARD N. SHIPLEY , GEORGE E. QUILLIN and RYAN A. SCHMID .

FRANK E. SCHERKENBACH , Fish & Richardson P.C., of Boston, Massachusetts, for amicus curiae Power Integrations in appeal no. 2012-1297. With him on the brief were CRAIG E. COUNTRYMAN , of San Diego, California, and HOWARD G. POLLACK and MICHAEL R. HEADLEY , of Redwood City, California.

Before DYK, MOORE, and WALLACH, Circuit Judges.


This disposition is nonprecedential

WALLACH, Circuit Judge.

Third-party requester Cisco Systems, Inc. ("Cisco") appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's ("Board") decision confirming the patentability of claims 91 and 104 of U.S. Patent No. 7,145,902 ("the '902 patent"). Teles AG Informationstechnologien ("Teles")1 cross appeals from the Board's rejections of claims 68, 69, 71, 75, 77, 79, 82, 84, 87, 90, 92, 95, 98,...

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