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Docket for 04-1350

No. 04-1350

Title:

KSR International Co., Petitioner

Teleflex Inc., et al.

Docketed:

April 11, 2005

Lower Ct:

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Case Nos.:	(04-1152)
Decision Date:	January 6, 2005
Questions Presented

~~~Date~~~	~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Apr 6 2005	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 11, 2005)
Apr 15 2005	Order extending time to file response to petition to and including June 22, 2005.
May 12 2005	Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Progress & Freedom Foundation.
May 12 2005	Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Twenty-Four Intellectual Property Law Professors.
Jun 21 2005	Brief of respondents Teleflex, Inc. and Technology Holding Co. in opposition filed.
Jun 22 2005	Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Cisco Systems Inc., et al.
Jul 6 2005	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of September 26, 2005.
Jul 8 2005	Reply of petitioner KSR International Co. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 3 2005	The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
May 25 2006	Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.
Jun 6 2006	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 22, 2006.
Jun 6 2006	Supplemental brief of respondents Teleflex, Inc.and Technology Holding Co. filed. (Distributed)
Jun 8 2006	Letter of June 8, 2006, from counsel for respondents received. (Distributed)
Jun 26 2006	Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Progress & Freedom Foundation GRANTED.
Jun 26 2006	Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Twenty-Four Intellectual Property Law Professors GRANTED.
Jun 26 2006	Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Cisco Systems Inc., et al. GRANTED.
Jun 26 2006	Petition GRANTED.
Jul 19 2006	*Consent to the filing of amicus briefs in support of either party received from counsel for the petitioner.
Jul 20 2006	Extension of time within which to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits to and including August 22, 2006.
Jul 20 2006	Extension of time within which to file respondent's brief on the merits to and including October 16, 2006.
Jul 31 2006	*Consent to the filing of amicus briefs in support of either party received from counsel for the respondents.
Aug 2 2006	Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Joseph V. Colaianni, Sr. and James E. Armstrong, III.
Aug 18 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Professor Lee A. Hollaar Urging Affirming in Part and Vacating in Part filed.
Aug 21 2006	Brief amicus curiae of International Business Machines Corporation in Support of Neither Party filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amici curiae of Ford Motor Company, et al. filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amici curiae of Intel Corporation, et al. filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Business Software Alliance filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Bar Association of the District of Columbia - Patent, Trademark & Copyright Section in Support of Neither Party filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Economists and Legal Historians filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amici curiae of AARP, et al,. filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amici curiae of Time Warner Inc., IAC/Interactive Corp., and Viacom filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Computer and Communications Industry Association filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Intellectual Property Law Professors filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Electronic Frontier Foundation filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amici curiae of Cisco Systems Inc., et al. filed.
Aug 22 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Progress & Freedom Foundation filed.
Aug 22 2006	Joint appendix filed.
Aug 22 2006	Supplemental joint appendix
Aug 22 2006	Brief of petitioner KSR International Co. filed.
Sep 1 2006	Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by Joseph V. Colaianni, Sr. and James E. Armstrong, III GRANTED.
Sep 25 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Lee Thomason filed.
Sep 29 2006	SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Tuesday, November 28, 2006.
Oct 10 2006	Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
Oct 11 2006	CIRCULATED.
Oct 11 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Harold W. Milton, Jr. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 12 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Intellectual Property Owners Association filed. (Distributed)
Oct 12 2006	Brief amicus curiae of American Intellectual Property Law Association filed. (Distributed)
Oct 13 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amici curiae of Altitude Capital Partners, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief of respondents Teleflex, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amici curiae of Chemistry and Bioengineering Professors filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Franklin Pierce Law Center Intellectual Property filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amicus curiae of American Bar Association filed.
Oct 16 2006	Brief amici curiae of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Federal Circuit Bar Association filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amici curiae of Michelin North America, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amici curiae of Tessera, Inc., Qualcomm Inc., and Amberwave Systems Corporation filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Technology Properties Limited filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Biotechnology Industry Organization filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amici curiae of Business and Law Professors filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amicus curiae of United Inventors Association filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amici curiae of Fallbrook Technologies, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amicus curiae of New York Intellectual Property Law Association filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amici curiae of 3M Co., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 16 2006	Brief amicus curiae of Practicing Patent Attorneys filed. (Distributed)
Oct 17 2006	Record received from U.S.C.A. for Federal Circuit. (1 box)
Oct 31 2006	Supplemental brief of respondents Teleflex, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 13 2006	Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
Nov 16 2006	Reply of petitioner KSR International Co. filed. (Distributed) *Animation Disc included.
Nov 28 2006	Argued. For petitioner: James W. Dabney, New York, N.Y.; and Thomas G. Hungar, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondents: Thomas C. Goldstein, Washington, D.C.
Dec 5 2006	Record received from U.S.D.C. Eastern District of Michigan. (1 box)
Apr 30 2007	Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
Jun 1 2007	Judgment Issued
Jun 19 2007	Record returned to U.S.Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit.
Jun 19 2007	Record returned to U.S.D.C. for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Jun 22 2007	Acknowledgement of receipt (06/06/07) of judgment from Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit received.

~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~	~~~~~~~Address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~	~~Phone~~~
Attorneys for Petitioner:
James W. Dabney	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP	(212) 859-8966
Counsel of Record	One New York Plaza, 24th Floor
	New York, NY 10004
	james.dabney@friedfrank.com
Party name: KSR International Co.
Attorneys for Respondents:
Thomas C. Goldstein	Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP	(202) 887-4060
Counsel of Record	1333 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
	Washington, DC 20036
	tgoldstein@akingump.com
Party name: Teleflex, Inc., et al.
Other:
Frank A. Angileri	Brooks Kushman PC	(248) 358-4400
	1000 Town Center
	Twenty Second Floor
	Southfield, MI 48075
Party name: Federal Circuit Bar Association

Jonathan Band	Jonathan Band PLLC	(202) 296-5675
	Jonathan Band PLLC
	21 Dupont Circle NW
	8th Floor
	Washington, DC 20036
	jband@policybandwidth.com
Party name: Computer and Communications Industry Association

David M. Bennion	Parsons Behle & Latimer	(801) 532-1234
	201 South Main Street
	Salt Lake City, UT 84111
	dbennion@parsonsbehle.com
Party name: Professor Lee A. Hollaar Urging Affirming in Part and Vacating in Part

Paul H. Berghoff	McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP	(312) 913-0001
	300 South Wacker Drive
	Chicago, IL 60606
	Berghoff@mbhb.com
Party name: Intellectual Property Owners Association

Robert Brauneis	Associate Professor of Law	(202) 994-6138
	George Washington University Law School
	2000 H Street, NW
	Washington, DC 20052
Party name: Twenty-Four Intellectual Property Law Professors

Beth S. Brinkmann	Morrison & Foerster LLP	(202) 887-1544
	2000 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
	Washington, DC 20006-1888
	bbrinkmann@mofo.com
Party name: Biotechnology Industry Organization

Henry L. Brinks	Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione	(312) 321-4200
	NBC Tower - Suite 3600
	455 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
	Chicago, IL 60611
Party name: Chemistry and Bioengineering Professors

Patrick G. Burns	Greer Burns & Crain, Ltd.	(312) 360-0080
	300 South Wacker Drive
	Suite 2500
	Chicago, IL 60606
	pburns@gbclaw.net
Party name: Intellectual Property Law Association

Adam H. Charnes	Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP	(336) 607-7300
	1001 West Fourth Street
	Winston-Salem, NC 27101
	acharnes@kilpatricktownsend.com
Party name: Tessera, Inc., Qualcomm Inc., and Amberwave Systems Corporation

Paul D. Clement	Acting Solicitor General	(202) 514-2217
	Department of Justice
	Washington, DC 20530
Party name: United States

William W. Cochran II.	Cochran Freund & Young	(970)-492-1100
	2026 Caribou Drive Suite 201
	Fort Collins, CO 80525
Party name: Practising Patent Attorneys

Joseph V. Colaianni Sr.	Patton Boggs LLP	(202) 457-6174
	2550 M Street, NW
	Washington, DC 20037
Party name: Joseph V. Colaianni, Sr. and James E. Armstrong, III

Roger L. Cook	Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP	(415) 576-0200
	Two Embarcadero Center
	8th Floor
	San Francisco, CA 94111
Party name: Technology Properties Limited

Christopher A. Cotropia	University of Richmond School of Law	(804) 484-1573
	28 Westhampton Way
	Richmond, VA 23173
Party name: Business and Law Professors

James V. DeLong	Progress & Freedom Foundation	(202) 289-8928
	1444 Eye St., NW
	Suite 500
	Washington, DC 20005
Party name: Progress & Freedom Foundation

Thomas G. Field Jr.	Professor of Law	(603) 513-5147
	Franklin Pierce Law Center
	2 White Street
	Concord, NH 03301
Party name: Franklin Pierce Law Center Intellectual Property

Gary L. Griswold	Staff Vice President	(651) 733-8904
	Chief Counsel Intellectual Property
	3M Company
	3M Center- P.O. Box 33427
	St. Paul, MN 55144
Party name: 3M Co., et al.

Richard W. Hoffmann	Miller & LaLone PC	(248) 364-4300
	691 N. Squirrel Road
	Suite 140
	Auburn Hills, MI 48326
Party name: Michelin North America, Inc., et al.

Thomas G. Hungar	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP	(202) 955-8500
	1050 Connecticut Ave, N.W.
	Washington, DC 20036
	thungar@gibsondunn.com
Party name: KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., et al.

Barbara A. Jones	AARP Foundation Litigation	(626) 585-2628
	200 So. Los Robles
	Suite 400
	Pasadena, CA 91101
	bjones@aarp.org
Party name: AARP, et al,.

Jeffrey I. D. Lewis	Paterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP	(212) 336-2000
	1133 Avenue of the Americas
	New York, NY 10036
Party name: American Intellectual Property Law Association

Traci L. Lovitt	Jones Day	(212) 326-3939
	222 East 41st Street
	New York, NY 10017
Party name: International business Machines Corporation in Support of Neither Party

Don W Martens	Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP	(949) 760-0404
	2040 Main Street, 14th Floor
	Irvine, CA 92614-3641
Party name: Fallbrook Technologies, Inc.

Karen J. Mathis	American Bar Association	(215) 988-5000
	321 North Clark Street
	Chicago, IL 60610
Party name: American Bar Association

Thomas B. McVey	c/o Robert F. Redmond, Jr.	(804) 783-6439
	Williams Mullen
	1021 East Cary Street
	Richmond, VA 23219
Party name: United Inventors Association

Harold W. Milton Jr.	Dickinson Wright	(248)-433-7385
	38525 Woodward Ave.
	Bloomfield, MI 48304
Party name: Harold W. Milton, Jr.

Richard B. Nettler	Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP	(202) 775-0725
	1801 K Street, NW
	Suite 1200
	Washington, DC 20006
Party name: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, et al.

Theodore B. Olson	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP	(202) 955-8500
	1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
	Washington, DC 20036
	tolson@gibsondunn.com
Party name: Intel Corporation, et al.

Andrew J. Pincus	Mayer Brown LLP	(202) 263-3000
	1999 K Street, NW
	Washington, DC 20006-1101
	apincus@mayerbrown.com
Party name: Business Software Alliance

Joshua D. Sarnoff	DePaul University College of Law	(312) 362-6326
	25 E. Jackson
	Chicago, IL 60604
	jsarnoff@depaul.edu
Party name: Economists and Legal Historians

Jason M. Schultz	UC Berkeley School of Law	(510) 642-1957
	Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Party name: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Rochelle K. Seide	RKS Consulting	(954) 295-3512
	21299 Harrow Court
	Boca Raton, FL 33433
	rseide21729@gmail
Party name: New York Intellectual Property Law Association

Allen M. Sokal	Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garret & Dunner	(202) 408-4000
	901 New York Avenue
	Washington, DC 20001-4413
Party name: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

Catherine E. Stetson	Hogan Lovells US LLP	(202) 637-5491
	555 Thirteenth Street, N.W.
	Washington, DC 20004
	cate.stetson@hoganlovells.com
Party name: Ford Motor Company, et al.

Katherine J. Strandburg	New York University School of Law	(212) 998-6269
	40 Washington Square South
	New York, NY 10012
	katherine.strandburg@nyu.edu
Party name: Intellectual Property Law Professors

Kathleen M. Sullivan	Stanford Constitutional Law Center	(650) 725-9875
	Stanford Law School
	559 Nathan Abbott Way
	Stanford, CA 94305-8610
Party name: Time Warner Inc., IAC/Interactive Corp., and Viacom

Peter A. Sullivan	Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP	(212) 837-6000
	One Battery Park Plaza
	New York, NY 10004
	sullivan@hugheshubbard.com
Party name: Cisco Systems Inc., et al.

Blair E. Taylor	Venable LLP	(202)-344-4639
	575 7th Street, NW
	Washington, DC 20004-1601
Party name: Bar Association of the District of Columbia - Patent, Trademark & Copyright Section in Support of Neither Party

Charles Lee Thomason	Spalding & Thomason	(502) 349-7227
	106 North 4th St.
	Bardstown, KY 40004
	thomason@spatlaw.com
Party name: Lee Thomason

Michael Li-Ming Wong	3 Embarcadero Center	415-315-63000
	San Francisco, CA 94111
	Michael.Wong@Ropesgray.com
Party name: Altitude Capital Partners, et al.