United States Federal Circuit - December 2003 Opinion Summaries

LENNOX v. PRINCIPI

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims applied the correct legal standard (a clearly erroneous standard as opposed to de novo) in reviewing the...

MEDICHEM, S.A. v. ROLABO, S.L.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Because it failed to recognize that claims 1 and 2 of plaintiff's patent plainly anticipate claims 1 and 17 of defendant's patent, the district court...

COOK v. PRINCIPI

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits
Plaintiff's appeal from a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. The Veterans Court's...

CONSOLIDATION COAL CO. v. US

Commercial Law, Remedies
Because plaintiffs' allege that they are entitled to recover paid reclamation fees because the fee was an unconstitutional tax imposed on coal in the...

CORUS GROUP PLC v. INT'L TRADE COMM'N

Government Law, International Trade
President Bush had authority under the Trade Act of 1974 to impose an ad valorem duty on imported tin mill products because the International Trade...

KUMAR v. OVONIC BATTERY CO., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of non-infringement is vacated and remanded because plaintiff's proposed claim construction, which relies on prior art cited in the...

ULEAD SYS., INC. v. LEX COMPUTER & MGMT. CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of inequitable conduct, finding that defendant's patent is unenforceable and expired because it falsely claimed status (and paid...

SULZER TEXTIL A.G. v. PICANOL N.V.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In patent cases in which claim construction rulings on disputed claim terms are made prior to trial and followed by the parties during the course of...

ERICSSON, INC. v. HARRIS CORP.

Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Grant of JMOL that defendants do not infringe plaintiff's US patent for an apparatus for supplying power to a telephone set in a telecom system, is...

ANDREWS v. PRINCIPI

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
The US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims did not err in affirming the decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals denying plaintiff an earlier...