United States Federal Circuit - June 2001 Opinion Summaries

RAPOPORT v. DEMENT

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the asserted prior art discusses treatment of a symptom, but does not anticipate that the discussed method would address the cause, the prior...

READ v. US

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
Under United States v. Fausto, 484 US 439 (1988), only the Merit Systems Protection Board, and not the Court of Federal Claims, has authority to...

DUREL CORP. v. OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court is free to use outside sources in its claim construction, such as calculations of atomic mass percent, but not if the resulting...

GART v. LOGITECH, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The written description of a claim must explicitly limit the subject matter of the patent because drawings will only depict the preferred embodiment...

GROUP ONE, LTD. v HALLMARK CARDS, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
35 USC 102(b), the on-sale bar to patent validity, requires a definite formal offer for sale in the contracts sense.

MODROWSKI v. DEP'T OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Labor & Employment Law
Where petitioner had a legitimate basis for refusing to cooperate with an investigation until he consulted with counsel, and petitioner did not...

FURASH & CO. v. US

Civil Procedure
The non-appropriated funds doctrine, where the Court of Federal Claims lacks jurisdiction over actions in which appropriated funds cannot be used to...

SANDERS v. US

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
The United States government's breach of an agreement with a criminal defendant concerning his release on bail after trial gives rise to a claim for...

ACROMED CORP. v. SOFAMOR DANEK GROUP, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Uncorroberated testimony from someone claiming to have invented a process is not clear and convincing evidence sufficient to show invalidity.

INTERGRAPH CORP. v. INTEL CORP.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure
The discovery of new evidence relating to allegedly anticompetitive behavior does not justify relitigating issues previously dismissed because the...