Paid Search Engine Tools, LLC v. Yahoo! Inc.

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Decided: February 13, 2012
• Docket: 2011-1281
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

PAID SEARCH ENGINE TOOLS, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

YAHOO! INC., Defendant-Appellee,

and

GOOGLE INC., Defendant-Appellee,

MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

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2011-1281 ______________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in No. 07-CV-0403, Judge David J. Folsom. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________

WARREN JEFFREY SEFTON, Keating Muething & Klekamp, PLL, of Cincinnati, Ohio, argued for plaintiff- appellant. With him on the brief was J. ROBERT CHAMBERS, Wood Herron & Evans, LLP, of Cincinnati, Ohio. DAVID A. PERLSON, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, of San Francisco, California, argued for all defendants-appellees. With him on the brief for defendant-appellee Google Inc., were CHARLES K. VERHOEVEN, EMILY C. O’BRIEN and ANTONIO R. SISTOS. On the brief for defendant-appellee Yahoo! Inc., were DOUGLAS E. LUMISH, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP, of San Francisco, California; and EDWARD R. REINES, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, of Redwood Shores, California. On the brief for defendant-appellee Microsoft Corp., were CONSTANTINE L. TRELA, JR. and RICHARD A. CEDEROTH, Sidley Austin LLP, of Chicago, Illinois; and BRYAN K. ANDERSON, of Palo Alto, California. Of counsel was TACY F. FLINT ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (LOURIE, LINN, and WALLACH, Circuit Judges).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

February 13, 2012 /s/ Jan Horbaly Date Jan Horbaly Clerk