United States Federal Circuit - January 2003 Opinion Summaries

BIOGEN, INC. v. BERLEX LABS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In claims on patents relating to recombinant DNA technology and the production of human interferon, on the district court's correct claim...

JOHNSON v. US

Constitutional Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A shareholder in a corporation had no standing to bring a Fifth Amendment takings claim before the Court of Federal Claims, where he did not maintain...

BOWERS v. BAYSTATE TECHS., INC.

Contracts, Copyright, Government Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
The district court did not abuse its discretion in omitting as duplicative copyright damages from a contract damage award. Verdict of patent...

HAIRSTON v. OFFICE OF PERS. MGMT.

Family Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
Petitioner is entitled to receive former spouse survivor annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System, where sufficient evidence showed that her...

AVENUES IN LEATHER, INC. v. US

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law, International Trade
In upholding a tariff classification and rate of duty imposed by the Customs Service on certain imported merchandise, the Court of International Trade...

MICRO CHEM., INC. v. LEXTRON, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
The district court erred in entering summary judgment that a machine was an available substitute for a patented invention at the time of infringement;...

SINGH v. BRAKE

Intellectual Property, Patent
<'*?;-ld of Patent Appeals and Interferences did not err in concluding that appellant failed to show: (1) that appellee was not entitled to a claimed...

RAMBUS, INC. v. INFINEON TECHS. AG

Attorney's Fees, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Judgment of noninfringement vacated, where the district court erred in its patent claim construction; fraud verdict cannot stand where evidence does...

WOLF v. DEP'T OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A Veterans Administration staff psychiatrist did not satisfy the conditions of 5 C.F.R. section 351.901 for reduction-in-force appeals, because the...

WASHOE COUNTY v. US

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The federal government's actions in denying a county's right-of-way permit application constituted neither a physical nor a regulatory taking of...