INTERNATIONAL AUTOMATED SYSTEMS, INC. v. IBM

Case No. 2:06-CV-00072-DB.

595 F.Supp.2d 1197 (2009)

INTERNATIONAL AUTOMATED SYSTEMS, INC., Plaintiff, v. IBM; IBM Corporation; IBM Personal Computing Division; Lenovo (United States) Inc.; Lenovo Group Ltd.; UPEK, Inc.; and John Does 1-20, Defendants and Counterclaimants.

United States District Court, D. Utah, Central Division.

January 12, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. David Nelson, Robert D. Dahle, Nelson Snuffer Dahle & Poulsen, Sandy, UT, Max D. Wheeler, P. Matthew Cox, Snow Christensen & Martineau, Salt Lake City, UT, Bryan A. Kohm, Fenwick & West, San Francisco, CA, Jeffrey A. Miller, Sugithra Somasekar, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Menlo Park, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Edwin H. Taylor, Lester J. Vincent, Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, Sunnyvale, CA, Bryan A. Kohm, Darryl M. Woo, Heather N. Mewes, Ryan J. Marton, Bryan A. Kohm, Fenwick & West, San Francisco, CA, Gerald Chan, James G. Snell, Bingham McCutchen LLP, East Palo Alto, CA, Jeffrey A. Miller, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Sugithra Somasekar, Menlo Park, CA, Joseph R. Bond, Heber City, UT, Jared S. Goff, Goff Patent Law, John D. Vandenberg, Stephanie S. Irvine, Portland, OR, James S. Jardine, Rick B. Hoggard, Samuel C. Straight, Ray Quinney & Nebeker, Todd M. Shaughnessy, Snell & Wilmer, Larry R. Laycock, Robyn L. Phillips, Workman Nydegger, Max D. Wheeler, P. Matthew Cox, Joseph P. Barrett, Snow Christensen & Martineau, Salt Lake City, UT, J. David Nelson, Robert D. Dahle, Nelson Snuffer Dahle & Poulsen, Sandy, UT, Isabella Fu, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, Mitchell S. Feller, Morris Waisbrot, William Francis Haigney, Hogan & Hartson, Richard S. Taffet, Bingham McCutchen LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER

DEE BENSON, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

On January 28, 1997, after several unsuccessful attempts, the U.S. Patent Office finally granted inventor Neldon Johnson U.S. Patent No. 5,598,474 (the '474 patent) which allowed Johnson to enter the already crowded field of automatic fingerprint identification. Not surprisingly, Johnson's patent described an apparatus capable of reading a fingerprint, identifying...

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