United States Federal Circuit - February 2002 Opinion Summaries

CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. v. MOBIL PRODUCING TEXAS & NEW MEXICO

Oil and Gas Law
Because stripper well overcharges were not settled in a Consent Order between defendant and the Department of Energy (DOE), liability remained with...

SCOTT v. KOYAMA

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences erred in holding that only chemical process laboratory activity can serve as evidence of...

AM-PRO PROTECTIVE AGENCY, INC. v. US

Contracts, Government Contracts
Because the only evidence plaintiff relied on in opposition to summary judgment was an uncorroborated affidavit executed 6 years after the...

FISKARS, INC. v. HUNT MFRG. CO.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
A damages award of lost profits will not be reopened after trial merely because market data, probative of the acceptability of a non-infringing...

STEARN v. DEP'T OF THE NAVY

Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
The regulation and one-year limitation of the Navy's law enforcement retirement credit coverage of 5 C.F.R. sections 831.906(e) and (f) are not...

LITTLE SIX, INC. v. US

Indian Law, Tax Law
Wagers on Indian pull-tab games are taxable under I.R.C. sections 4401 and 4411, because 25 U.S.C. section 2719(d)(1) does not exempt them from those...

DANA CORP. v. AMERICAN AXLE & MFG., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment, holding that plaintiff's patents were invalid under the public use and on-sale bars of 35 U.S.C. section 102(b), vacated because...

BAYER AG v.BIOVAIL CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court erred in finding that it had necessarily and sufficiently construed the claims of a pharmaceutical composition patent in a...

TATE ACCESS FLOORS, INC. v. INTERFACE ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCES, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The grant of preliminary injunction barring appellant from infringing a raised floor tile beveled edge patent was affirmed because appellant did not...

HILDEBRAND v. STECK MFG. CO., INC.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where all of Colorado inventor's documented contacts with Ohio were for the purpose of warning two manufacturers there of their potential infringement...