United States Federal Circuit - August 2007 Opinion Summaries

Hughes v. US

Banking Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, M&A, Property Law & Real Estate
In a Winstar breach of contract case, rulings in favor of plaintiff-individual corporate officer and a ruling against plaintiff-corporation are...

Pucilowski v. Dep't of Justice

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
A decision denying in part a petition for relief under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) is reversed in part and...

Egyptian Goddess, Inc. v. Swisa, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute involving "an ornamental nail buffer" design, summary judgment for defendants of noninfringement of the patent is affirmed where...

In re Sullivan

Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Intellectual Property, Patent
A decision rejecting certain claims of a patent application, relating to an antivenom composition used to treat rattlesnake bites, under 35 U.S.C....

Hernandez v. Dep't of the Air Force

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In an action brought by a retired Air Force aircraft mechanic alleging that he had been erroneously charged military leave for certain years,...

Shum v. Intel Corp.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an optical engineer's action raising a claim for correction of inventorship pursuant to 35 U.S.C. section 256 and setting forth various state law...

Ormco Corp. v. Align Tech., Inc.

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent suit, summary judgment for defendant finding that the asserted claims of certain patents relating to the computer-aided design and...

Nat'l Am. Ins. Co. v. US

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Construction, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Insurance Law
In an action brought by a payment bond surety against the government arising from the government's failure to follow the surety's request that...

In re Trans Texas Holdings Corp.

Banking Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
A decision rejecting of all of the claims of certain patents describing a system of inflation-adjusted deposit and loan accounts is affirmed where: 1)...

Frazer v. Schlegel

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, International Law, Patent
In an interference between patent applications involving a vaccine, a decision awarding priority to appellees is reversed and remanded where, based on...