United States Federal Circuit - August 2010 Opinion Summaries

Stauffer v. Brooks Bros. Inc.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In plaintiff's qui tam action against Brooks Brothers under 35 U.S.C. section 292, claiming that defendants falsely marked its bow ties, district...

Princo Corp. v. Int'l Trade Comm'n

Commercial Law, Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, International Trade
In plaintiff's patent infringement suit related to two types of digital storage devices, recordable discs (CD-Rs) and rewritable compact discs...

Gen. Protecht Group, Inc. v. Int'l Trade Comm'n

Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, International Trade
The International Trade Commission's determination that the importation into the United States of certain ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCI)...

Pass & Seymour, Inc. v. Int'l Trade Comm'n.

Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, International Trade
In plaintiff's suit against various defendants claiming infringement of its patents related to circuit interrupters for use with household electrical...

Hall v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In a Naval engineer's suit for back-pay for the pre-removal period during which she was still employed but was designated as being on AWOL status, the...

Cedillo v. Sec'y of Health & Human Serv.

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's suit brought under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, claiming a link between childhood vaccines and autism, Court of...

Geo M. Martin, Co. v. Alliance Mach. Sys. Int'l., LLC.

Patent, Government Law, Intellectual Property
In a suit for infringement of a patent, relating to an improvement over the traditional bundle breaker (a machine used to separate stacked sheets of...

Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. Maersk Contractors USA, Inc.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent, Oil and Gas Law
In Transocean's suit for infringement of its patents, related to an improved apparatus for conducting offshore drilling, district court's judgment is...

Found. of Human Understanding v. US

Media Law, Tax Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
United States Court of Federal Claims' decision that a nonprofit organization did not qualify as a "church" under section 170(b)(1)(A)(i) of the...

Baran v. Med. Device Technologies, Inc.

Government Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a doctor's patent infringement suit alleging infringement of certain '797 and '798 patents, directed to automated biopsy instruments, district...