United States Federal Circuit - October 2006 Opinion Summaries

Am. Capital Corp. v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp.

Banking Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Remedies
A judgment finding defendant-government liable for approximately $110 million in net losses for a breach of contract in a Winstar-related transaction...

Elkem Metals Co. v. US

Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Government Law, International Law, International Trade, Tax Law
A judgment remanding a case to the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) with instructions to include in the constructed value of silicon metal...

Go Med. Indus. Pty, Ltd. v. Inmed Corp.

Contracts, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies, Trademark
Orders granting summary judgment, denying prejudgment interest, and reducing a jury's award of damages in a contract, patent, and trademark case...

Weatherby v. Dep't of the Interior

Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board upholding a denial of petitioner's claim for enhanced annuity benefit credits as a firefighter is...

Godbout v. Office of Personnel Mgmt.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
A decision to recover annuity overpayments from petitioner is affirmed where the OPM showed that petitioner -- whose injury did not occur during...

Dambrava v. Office of Personnel Mgmt.

Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
A decision denying an application for immediate retirement under the Civil Service Retirement Act (CSRA) after concluding that petitioner was not...

Allen v. US Postal Serv.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board affirming petitioner's dismissal from his position of United States Postal Service Customer Service...

Qualcomm Inc. v. Nokia Corp.

Communications Law, Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Denial of Nokia's motion to stay litigation with plaintiffs involving a license to patents having to do with mobile telecommunications standards,...

In re Pennington Seed, Inc.

Agriculture, Intellectual Property, Trademark
A decision of the PTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board refusing registration of the term "Rebel" as a trademark for a variety of grass seed is...

Medrad, Inc. v. Tyco Healthcare Group LP

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment for defendants of invalidity of a reissue patent relating to patient infusion systems for use with magnetic resonance imaging systems...