United States Federal Circuit - October 2008 Opinion Summaries

Dean v. Consumer Prod. Safety Comm'n

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Denial by the Merit Systems Protection Board of a request for corrective action under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act...

Hogan v. Peake

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
Denial of a veteran's claim for service connection for generalized anxiety disorder is affirmed where the Veterans Court did not adopt a rule that a...

In Re Alonso

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of the rejection of one claim of applicant's proposed patent for a method of treating certain cancers with human monoclonal antibodies,...

In Re Bilski

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of the rejection of a patent application for a claimed method of hedging risk in commodities trading, a Board of Patent Appeals and...

In Re Bilski

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of the rejection of a patent application for a claimed method of hedging risk in commodities trading, a Board of Patent Appeals and...

Abbot Labs. v. Sandoz, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
In a suit over infringement of patents for extended release formulations of the antibiotic clarithromycin, grant of plaintiff's motion for preliminary...

Net MoneyIN, Inc. v. VeriSign, Inc.

Banking Law, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a suit alleging infringement of patents describing systems for making automated payments over the Internet, judgments of invalidity for...

Minks v. Polaris Indus., Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
In a suit alleging infringement of a patent for an electronic governor system for internal combustion engines, a finding of willful infringement and...

In Re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a suit alleging that a settlement agreement between the patent holder for the antibiotic Cipro and a generic manufacturer violated federal and...

Kyocera Wireless Corp. v. Int'l Trade Comm'n

Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, International Trade, Patent
An ITC ruling that appellant's chips and chipsets infringed certain patents and were therefore subject to a limited exclusion order (LEO) restricting...