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Fenner Investments Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp., No. 09-1496 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 15, 2010)

Affirmed
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 09-1496
Decided
March 15, 2010
Judge
Per curiam
Document
Nonprecedential Opinion
Length
2 pages

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

2009-1496

FENNER INVESTMENTS, LTD.,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

MICROSOFT CORPORATION,

Defendant-Appellee,

and

NINTENDO COMPANY, LTD. and NINTENDO OF AMERICA, INC., Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of

Texas in case no. 07-CV-00008, Judge Leonard Davis.

Before NEWMAN, RADER, and LINN, Circuit Judges.

O R D E R

The judgment in this case is affirmed. We uphold the district court’s grant of summary judgment of no infringement based on the court’s determination that there are no genuine issues of material fact and that no reasonable jury could find that the accused devices of Microsoft and Nintendo meet the pulse width limitation of the asserted claims of Fenner’s U.S. Patent No. 6,297,751 literally or under the doctrine of equivalents. We need not and do not address Microsoft’s alternate ground for2 affirmance, nor do we address the question raised by Fenner whether the district court erred in its construction of the claim term “processor.” FOR THE COURT

___March 15, 2010___ /s/ Jan Horbaly

Date Jan Horbaly

Clerk cc: Jonathan S. Franklin, Esq. Ruffin B. Cordell, Esq. Jerry A. Riedinger, Esq.

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