DataTreasury Scores Victory before U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.PLANO, Texas Plano (IPA: /ˈpleɪnoʊ/) is a wealthy suburb of Dallas, Texas, located to the north, mainly within Collin County, but also extending into Denton County. According to the 2000 U.S. -- DataTreasury Corporation, a Texas-based check-processing company, today announced an important victory in an appeal heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is a United States court of appeals. The Federal Circuit was created by Congress with passage of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982. The court is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and occupies the Howard T. , the judicial body which oversees all U.S. patent cases. The appeal was brought by Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. ), a major provider of information technology services and a defendant in the closely followed patent litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. surrounding DataTreasury's check-imaging and payment-processing technology. EDS asked the Court to overturn an order issued in March 2006 by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas dismissing a patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. case filed by DataTreasury. The case focused on an EDS product known as "PAY for Check 21" and had been settled prior to the dismissal by agreements with Zions Bancorporation Zions Bancorporation (NASDAQ: ZION) is a member of the S&P 500, a bank holding company headquartered Salt Lake City, Utah. Its star subsidiary is NSB Public Finance. and NetDeposit, Inc., providers of the technology underlying EDS's product. On February 7, 2007, a panel consisting of Chief Judge Paul R. Michel, Circuit Judge Randall R. Rader, and Circuit Judge Alvin A. Schall heard oral arguments by both parties, with Texas attorney Eric M. Albritton arguing on behalf of DataTreasury. On the following day, the Court issued an opinion refusing EDS's request and affirming the lower court's order. Barring an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, this opinion leaves the only litigation actively pending between the two companies in the Eastern District of Texas, where DataTreasury filed a patent infringement suit following the Northern District's March 2006 dismissal. "DataTreasury is grateful that the appellate court A court having jurisdiction to review decisions of a trial-level or other lower court. An unsuccessful party in a lawsuit must file an appeal with an appellate court in order to have the decision reviewed. dealt with the issue quickly. We can now focus more fully on the rest of the Texas-based litigation," said Ed Hohn, DataTreasury's lead counsel and a partner with the law firm Nix, Patterson & Roach, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol . The appellate court's ruling may be viewed on the "Dispositions" page of the court's website (http://fedcir.gov/), and a full-length audio recording of the hearing is available online at http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/oralarguments/mp3/06-1506.mp3. About DataTreasury Corporation A privately owned company, DataTreasury was formed in 1998 and is built around an extensive patent portfolio, which includes patents covering its Global Repository Platform, the world's most functional and secure informational management system. Several countries have recognized the patentability of this technology, and DataTreasury has many other pending patent applications surrounding this system. For further information on DataTreasury, please visit www.datatreasury.com. |
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