United States Federal Circuit - November 2010 Opinion Summaries

Johnson v. Dep't of Veterans Affairs

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a former government employee's request for arbitration regarding her discharge from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the arbitrator's dismissal...

CRV Enter., Inc. v. US

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In plaintiffs' suit against the United States, claiming that the government had taken plaintiffs' private property without just compensation by...

Bormes v. US

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Cyberspace Law, Government Law
In an attorney's class action lawsuit against the government on behalf of his clients under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) claiming that the...

Nuance Communications, Inc. v. Abby Software House

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's suit for infringement of its patent, related to methods and systems for performing optical character recognition, recognizing...

A123 Sys., Inc. v. Hydro-Quebec

Civil Procedure, Education Law, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's suit seeking a declaration of noninfringement and invalidity of two patents related to a genus of lithium based cathode materials,...

Abraxis Bioscience, Inc. v. Navinta LLC.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's suit for infringement of its patents related to methods of using low concentrations of ropivacaine hydrochloride to treat pain,...

Cancer Research Tech. Ltd. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit related to a genus of tetrazine derivative compounds and methods for treating cancer by administering those compounds,...

Hyatt v. Kappos

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's civil action against the Director of the Patent Office pursuant to 35 U.S.C. section 145, related to a patent application for a...

Finjan, Inc. v. Secure Computing Corp.

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
In a patent infringement suit involving "proactive scanning" technology for computer security, a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff and district...

Astrazeneca LP v. Apotex, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
District court's grant of a preliminary injunction barring defendant from launching a generic version of a budesonide drug for treating respiratory...