{"id":1718,"date":"2010-01-26T18:04:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T00:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2010-01-26T18:04:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T00:04:44","slug":"ariba-v-emptoris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"Ariba v. Emptoris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Circuit recently affirmed the jury verdict of infringement in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ariba v. Emptoris<\/span>, 2009-1230 (Fed. Cir. January 8, 2010).\u00a0 The patent at issue concerned\u00a0an electronic\u00a0auction.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Interestingly, one of the claims at issue from US patent 6,216,114\u00a0was a Beauregard claim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>69. A machine-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to control overtime in an electronic auction, by performing:<\/p>\n<p>a) defining a first time interval, a second time interval, a first overtime condition and a first closing time for a first lot, wherein said first overtime condition comprises:<\/p>\n<p>receiving a plurality of bids;<\/p>\n<p>assigning an ordinal rank to each bid from a best bid to a worst bid; and<\/p>\n<p>receiving a bid having an ordinal rank that is within a predefined number of rank ordinal positions of best bid;<\/p>\n<p>b) determining whether said first overtime condition occurs during said first time interval; and<\/p>\n<p>c) extending said first closing time using said second time interval in accordance with said determination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, the Federal Circuit affirmed the jury verdict of infringement of this Beauregard claim.<\/p>\n<p>There was one question during the oral argument which struck me as\u00a0odd.\u00a0\u00a0Judge Moore\u00a0asked\u00a0the attorney for the\u00a0defendant-appellant whether the claim at issue was an originally filed claim.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2009-1230-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].\u00a0 Perhaps it was just curiosity on Judge Moore&#8217;s part &#8212; I can&#8217;t think of any legal precedent that would require claims that were added or amended after a patent application was filed to be treated any\u00a0differently during litigation for purposes of literal infringement than one would\u00a0treat an originally filed claim.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s rule 36 opinion is available here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/09-1230.pdf\">Read<\/a>].\u00a0 (Just a heads up that there is an error in the caption that has the attorneys who argued the appeal shown as representing the opposing party.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Circuit recently affirmed the jury verdict of infringement in Ariba v. Emptoris, 2009-1230 (Fed. Cir. January 8, 2010).\u00a0 The patent at issue concerned\u00a0an electronic\u00a0auction.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Interestingly, one of the claims at issue from US patent 6,216,114\u00a0was a Beauregard claim: 69. A machine-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to control overtime in an electronic auction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}