Altera Corporation v. Clear Logic, Inc.

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ALTERA CORPORATION, 

Plaintiff-counter- Nos. 03-17323 claimant-defendant- 03-17334 Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-99-21134-

CLEAR LOGIC, INCORPORATED, JW/PVT

Defendant-counter-

OPINION

claimant-plaintiff- Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California James Ware, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 12, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed September 15, 2005

Before: Procter Hug, Jr., Warren J. Ferguson, and Pamela Ann Rymer, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Hug; Concurrence by Judge Rymer

13303 ALTERA v. CLEAR LOGIC 13307

COUNSEL

David M. Heilbron and C. William Craycroft, Bingham McCutchen LLP, East Palo Alto, California, for the appellant.

Karl J. Kramer, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Palo Alto, Califor- nia, for the appellee.

Sandeep Jaggi, Milpitas, California, for amicus curiae LSI Logic Corporation.

OPINION

HUG, Circuit Judge:

This case involves an infringement action by Altera Corpo- ration (“Altera”) against Clear Logic Incorporated (“Clear 13308 …