IN RE PAPST LICENSING DIGITAL CAMERA PATENT LITIGATION

No. 2014-1110.

778 F.3d 1255 (2015)

In re PAPST LICENSING DIGITAL CAMERA PATENT LITIGATION. Papst Licensing GMBH & Co. KG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Fujifilm Corporation, Fujifilm North America Corporation (formerly known as Fujifilm USA, Inc.), Hewlett-Packard Company, JVC Company of America, Nikon Corporation, Nikon, Inc., Olympus Corp., Olympus Imaging America Inc., Panasonic Corporation (formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LTD.), Panasonic Corporation of North America, Samsung Opto-Electronics America, Inc., Samsung Techwin Co., and Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

February 2, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Battaglia , Fisch Sigler LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief were Alan M. Fisch and Roy William Sigler .

Rachel M. Capoccia , Alston & Bird LLP, of Los Angeles, CA, argued for defendants-appellees. With her on the brief for Panasonic Corporation, et al., was Thomas W. Davison . On the brief for Fujifilm Corporation, et al., were Steven J. Routh , Sten A. Jensen , John R. Inge and T. Vann Pearce, Jr , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, of Washington, DC. On the brief for Nikon Corporation, et al., were David L. Witcoff and Marc S. Blackman , Jones Day, of Chicago, IL. Of counsel was Marron Ann Mahoney . On the brief for Olympus Corporation, et al., were Richard De Bodo and Andrew V. Devkar , Bingham McCutchen LLP, of Santa Monica, CA. Of counsel was Susan Baker Manning , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, of Washington, DC. On the brief for Samsung Techwin, Co., et al., was Patrick J. Kelleher , Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, of Chicago, IL.

Charlene M. Morrow , Fenwick & West LLP, of Mountain View, CA, argued for defendant-appellee Hewlett-Packard Company. With her on the brief were David D. Schumann and Bryan A. Kohm , of San Francisco, CA.

Before TARANTO, SCHALL, and CHEN, Circuit Judges.


Papst Licensing GmbH & Co. KG owns U.S. Patent Nos. 6,470,399 and 6,895,449. The written descriptions are largely the same, the '449 patent having issued on a divisional application carved out of the application that became the '399 patent. The focus of both patents is an interface device for transferring data between...

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