Intellicall, Inc. v. Phonometrics, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Chief Judge.
Phonometrics, Inc., owner of U.S. Patent No. 3,769,463 (the ’463 patent), appeals from the summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas declaring that Intellicall, Inc., had not infringed the ’463 patent. We affirm.
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BACKGROUND
The ’463 patent claims an apparatus for automatically computing and recording the cost of a long-distance telephone call. As described in the specification, the cumulative call cost information is displayed to the caller while the call is being made. Claim 1, the only independent claim of the ’463 patent,…
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