Oral arguments heard by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit at Fordham Law were featured in Law 360.
Hearing an appeal of a Delaware jury verdict that Google Earth does not infringe a mapping patent, a panel of Federal Circuit judges pressed attorneys for both sides Thursday about whether the trial testimony of Google’s witnesses supported the jury’s decision.
Art+Com Innovationpool GmbH, which sought $106 million in damages, told the appeals court at arguments held at Fordham University School of Law in New York that its infringement case was based on the default mode for Google Earth, but testimony from Google Inc.’s witnesses was instead focused on a different mode.
Art+Com attorney Scott F. Partridge of Baker Botts LLP said Google’s witnesses told the jury that Google Earth didn’t infringe because it uses a process that is not found in the patent, but that process is performed by the program only in a mode used about 10 percent of the time.