United States Federal Circuit - September 2002 Opinion Summaries

THOMPSON v. HAYNES

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection Law, Remedies
Sale of swivel devices constituted a willful violation of the Lanham Act, the Oklahoma Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and unfair competition. Award of...

ROBINSON v. US

Contracts, Government Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
No damages are due, in an action for breach of a contract to purchase a restaurant and land from the Small Business Administration, where had the...

ROSCO, INC. v. MIRROR LITE CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
District court erred in finding that 1) plaintiff's bus mirror patent was invalid as functional and obvious, 2) claims of defendant's patent were...

SCHWING GMBH v. PUTZMEISTER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Intellectual Property, Patent
Prosecution history will bar a holder of a concrete pump patent from asserting that one accused devices infringes the patent, but further...

RAYTHEON CO. v. WHITE

Contracts, Government Contracts
In a military supply contractor's appeal, seeking an increase in contract price as a basis for a later claim of termination damages, the Armed...

PACRIM PIZZA CO. v. PIRIE

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Contracts
The nonappropriated funds doctrine bars appellate jurisdiction of a decision of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, sustaining a contracting...

NOVO NORDISK A/S v. BECTON DICKINSON & CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Two claims from patents related to an insulin delivery system are invalid on the ground of obviousness, and another is invalid based on same-invention...

UNION CARBIDE CHEMS. & PLASTICS TECH. CORP. v. SHELL OIL CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
District court's judgments on asserted invalidity defenses were based upon an incorrect construction of patent claim, but the court did not abuse its...

EAGLE COMTRONICS, INC. v. ARROW COMMUNICATION LAB., INC.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent, Sanctions
Neither prosecution history estoppel nor the all-limitations rule bars infringement, under the doctrine of equivalents, of a patent related to signal...

CREO PRODUCTS, INC. v. PRESSTEK, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
A patent claim was not impermissibly broadened during reexamination, and plaintiff did not make a sufficient showing of indefiniteness to overcome the...