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Saturday, June 04, 2011 2:30:14 PM
It was DM's Matthew Yungwirth who was plaintiff's attorney in the Phillips federal appeal case
MR.JAMESON:And,Your Honor, Iknow you are well versed in claim construction.
THE COURT: Not so much. Phillips was not my bestmoment.
MR. JAMESON: Actually, Your Honor, it was a good
moment 'cause it helped us a lot. And what Phillips actually
told us was, we got to start with the claims. And then we need
to look at the claims against the specification. And we might
then go to the prosecution history if it's in evidence, but the
prosecution history, we got to be real careful about that,
because it can be ambiguous at times; and so we don't hang our
hat on the prosecution history unless there is a disclaimer
that is clear, unmistakable, unambiguous, and we got all the
cases cited in the briefing.
And here's what the intrinsic record teaches us. The
patent examiner and the applicants reached an agreement that a
narrowing amendment would result in a patentable invention that
overcomes Schroder and the Microsoft Dictionary definition.
And the examiner laid out exactly what that narrowing amendment
was. And nowhere in that narrowing amendment that the patent
examiner laid out is there anything about that is the main
memory of the system or without another memory system such as
RAM. The examiner made crystal clear that if you amend the
claims, that the flash memory is the sole memory of the
received processed, past tense. Once we've gone through all
the processing, it's the sole memory for storage of the
received processed electrical signals, you've got a patentable
invention.
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U.S. District Court
District of Colorado (Denver)
CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:97-cv-00212-MSK-CBS
Phillips v. AWH Corporation, et al
Assigned to: Judge Marcia S. Krieger
Referred to: Magistrate Judge Craig B. Shaffer
Demand: $0
Case in other court:
03-01269FC
03-01286FC
Cause: 35:271 Patent Infringement
Date Filed: 02/03/1997
Date Terminated: 12/20/2006
Jury Demand: Plaintiff
Nature of Suit: 830 Patent
Jurisdiction: Federal Question
Plaintiff
Edward H. Phillips
represented by
Alexander Garlin
Garlin, Driscoll & Murray, LLC
245 Century Circle
#101
Louisville , CO 80027-9439
303-926-4222
Fax: 303-926-4224
Email: agarlin@gdhlaw.com
TERMINATED: 02/14/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Carl F. Manthei
Carl F. Manthei, Attorney at Law
1205 Seventeenth Street
Boulder , CO 80302-6315
303-442-5496
Email: carlmanthei@comcast.net
TERMINATED: 02/14/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Don R. Mollick
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Seattle
P.O. Box 21649
1402 3rd Avenue
#1414
Seattle , WA 98111
206-332-0743
Fax: 206-332-0746
Email: dmollick@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 11/30/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Douglass F. Vincent
Vincent & Cooksey
1526 Spruce Street
#210
Boulder , CO 80302
303-442-2000
TERMINATED: 03/02/1999
LEAD ATTORNEY
F. David LaRiviere
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Monterey
P.O. Box 3140
19 Upper Ragsdale Drive
#200
Monterey , CA 93942-3140
831-649-8800
Fax: 831-649-8835
Email: fdlariviere@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 11/30/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Micheal Shane Edgington
M. Shane Edgington, P.C.
10606 Clarke Farms Drive
Parker , CO 80134
303-668-4607
Fax: 303-805-5629
Email: mselaw@comcast.net
TERMINATED: 10/12/2007
LEAD ATTORNEY
Robert W. Payne
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Monterey
P.O. Box 3140
19 Upper Ragsdale Drive
#200
Monterey , CA 93942-3140
831-649-8800
Fax: 831-649-8835
Email: rpayne@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 11/30/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Allen L. Greenberg
Duane Morris LLP-Atlanta
1180 West Peachtree Street
#700
Atlanta , GA 30309
404-253-6900
Fax: 404-253-6901
Email: algreenberg@duanemorris.com
TERMINATED: 04/16/2008
Brent Antoni Capehart
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Monterey
P.O. Box 3140
19 Upper Ragsdale Drive
#200
Monterey , CA 93942-3140
831-649-8800
Fax: 831-649-8835
Email: bcapehart@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 11/30/2006
James Christopher Schroeder
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Seattle
P.O. Box 21649
1402 3rd Avenue
#1414
Seattle , WA 98111
206-332-0743
Fax: 206-332-0746
Email: jschroeder@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 09/11/2006
John C. Herman
Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP-Atlanta
3424 Peachtree Road
#1650
Atlanta , GA 30326
404-873-3900
Fax: 404-876-4476
Email: jherman@csgrr.com
TERMINATED: 04/16/2008
Mark Enger Saliman
Don, Galleher & Saliman, P.C.
1737 Gaylord Street
Denver , CO 80206
303-572-1668
Fax: 303-572-0900
Email: dgs@dgslegal.com
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Matthew S. Yungwirth
Duane Morris LLP-Atlanta
1180 West Peachtree Street
#700
Atlanta , GA 30309
404-253-6900
Fax: 404-253-6901
Email: msyungwirth@duanemorris.com
TERMINATED: 04/16/2008
Michael A. Ruderman
Michael A. Ruderman, LLC
4331 Snowberry Court
Boulder , CO 80304
303-939-8998
Fax: 303-939-8747
Email: mike@mikeruderman.com
TERMINATED: 02/13/2006
Michelle A. Pinkowski
Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC
1660 Lincoln Street
#3000
Denver , CO 80264
720-377-0770
Fax: 720-377-0777
Email: mpinkowski@hkh-law.com
TERMINATED: 10/12/2007
Shelley B. Don
Don, Galleher & Saliman, P.C.
1737 Gaylord Street
Denver , CO 80206
303-572-1668
Email: dgs@dgslegal.com
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Watson Wheelwright Galleher
Don, Galleher & Saliman, P.C.
1737 Gaylord Street
Denver , CO 80206
303-572-1668
Fax: 303-572-0900
Email: dgs@dgslegal.com
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
V.
Defendant
AWH Corporation
a Delaware corporation
MR.JAMESON:And,Your Honor, Iknow you are well versed in claim construction.
THE COURT: Not so much. Phillips was not my bestmoment.
MR. JAMESON: Actually, Your Honor, it was a good
moment 'cause it helped us a lot. And what Phillips actually
told us was, we got to start with the claims. And then we need
to look at the claims against the specification. And we might
then go to the prosecution history if it's in evidence, but the
prosecution history, we got to be real careful about that,
because it can be ambiguous at times; and so we don't hang our
hat on the prosecution history unless there is a disclaimer
that is clear, unmistakable, unambiguous, and we got all the
cases cited in the briefing.
And here's what the intrinsic record teaches us. The
patent examiner and the applicants reached an agreement that a
narrowing amendment would result in a patentable invention that
overcomes Schroder and the Microsoft Dictionary definition.
And the examiner laid out exactly what that narrowing amendment
was. And nowhere in that narrowing amendment that the patent
examiner laid out is there anything about that is the main
memory of the system or without another memory system such as
RAM. The examiner made crystal clear that if you amend the
claims, that the flash memory is the sole memory of the
received processed, past tense. Once we've gone through all
the processing, it's the sole memory for storage of the
received processed electrical signals, you've got a patentable
invention.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
U.S. District Court
District of Colorado (Denver)
CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:97-cv-00212-MSK-CBS
Phillips v. AWH Corporation, et al
Assigned to: Judge Marcia S. Krieger
Referred to: Magistrate Judge Craig B. Shaffer
Demand: $0
Case in other court:
03-01269FC
03-01286FC
Cause: 35:271 Patent Infringement
Date Filed: 02/03/1997
Date Terminated: 12/20/2006
Jury Demand: Plaintiff
Nature of Suit: 830 Patent
Jurisdiction: Federal Question
Plaintiff
Edward H. Phillips
represented by
Alexander Garlin
Garlin, Driscoll & Murray, LLC
245 Century Circle
#101
Louisville , CO 80027-9439
303-926-4222
Fax: 303-926-4224
Email: agarlin@gdhlaw.com
TERMINATED: 02/14/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Carl F. Manthei
Carl F. Manthei, Attorney at Law
1205 Seventeenth Street
Boulder , CO 80302-6315
303-442-5496
Email: carlmanthei@comcast.net
TERMINATED: 02/14/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Don R. Mollick
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Seattle
P.O. Box 21649
1402 3rd Avenue
#1414
Seattle , WA 98111
206-332-0743
Fax: 206-332-0746
Email: dmollick@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 11/30/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Douglass F. Vincent
Vincent & Cooksey
1526 Spruce Street
#210
Boulder , CO 80302
303-442-2000
TERMINATED: 03/02/1999
LEAD ATTORNEY
F. David LaRiviere
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Monterey
P.O. Box 3140
19 Upper Ragsdale Drive
#200
Monterey , CA 93942-3140
831-649-8800
Fax: 831-649-8835
Email: fdlariviere@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 11/30/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Micheal Shane Edgington
M. Shane Edgington, P.C.
10606 Clarke Farms Drive
Parker , CO 80134
303-668-4607
Fax: 303-805-5629
Email: mselaw@comcast.net
TERMINATED: 10/12/2007
LEAD ATTORNEY
Robert W. Payne
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Monterey
P.O. Box 3140
19 Upper Ragsdale Drive
#200
Monterey , CA 93942-3140
831-649-8800
Fax: 831-649-8835
Email: rpayne@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 11/30/2006
LEAD ATTORNEY
Allen L. Greenberg
Duane Morris LLP-Atlanta
1180 West Peachtree Street
#700
Atlanta , GA 30309
404-253-6900
Fax: 404-253-6901
Email: algreenberg@duanemorris.com
TERMINATED: 04/16/2008
Brent Antoni Capehart
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Monterey
P.O. Box 3140
19 Upper Ragsdale Drive
#200
Monterey , CA 93942-3140
831-649-8800
Fax: 831-649-8835
Email: bcapehart@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 11/30/2006
James Christopher Schroeder
LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP-Seattle
P.O. Box 21649
1402 3rd Avenue
#1414
Seattle , WA 98111
206-332-0743
Fax: 206-332-0746
Email: jschroeder@lgpatlaw.com
TERMINATED: 09/11/2006
John C. Herman
Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP-Atlanta
3424 Peachtree Road
#1650
Atlanta , GA 30326
404-873-3900
Fax: 404-876-4476
Email: jherman@csgrr.com
TERMINATED: 04/16/2008
Mark Enger Saliman
Don, Galleher & Saliman, P.C.
1737 Gaylord Street
Denver , CO 80206
303-572-1668
Fax: 303-572-0900
Email: dgs@dgslegal.com
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Matthew S. Yungwirth
Duane Morris LLP-Atlanta
1180 West Peachtree Street
#700
Atlanta , GA 30309
404-253-6900
Fax: 404-253-6901
Email: msyungwirth@duanemorris.com
TERMINATED: 04/16/2008
Michael A. Ruderman
Michael A. Ruderman, LLC
4331 Snowberry Court
Boulder , CO 80304
303-939-8998
Fax: 303-939-8747
Email: mike@mikeruderman.com
TERMINATED: 02/13/2006
Michelle A. Pinkowski
Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC
1660 Lincoln Street
#3000
Denver , CO 80264
720-377-0770
Fax: 720-377-0777
Email: mpinkowski@hkh-law.com
TERMINATED: 10/12/2007
Shelley B. Don
Don, Galleher & Saliman, P.C.
1737 Gaylord Street
Denver , CO 80206
303-572-1668
Email: dgs@dgslegal.com
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Watson Wheelwright Galleher
Don, Galleher & Saliman, P.C.
1737 Gaylord Street
Denver , CO 80206
303-572-1668
Fax: 303-572-0900
Email: dgs@dgslegal.com
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
V.
Defendant
AWH Corporation
a Delaware corporation
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