United States Federal Circuit - December 2010 Opinion Summaries

Shum v. Intel Corp.

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's suit for correction of inventorship of patents that lists his former business partner as the sole inventor, and various claims under...

Shum v. Intel Corp.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's suit seeking correction of inventorship for patents originally issued to his former business partner, district court's award of costs...

WiAV Solutions, Inc. v. Motorola, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit related to signal transmission, as well as encoding and decoding of data, district court's decision that plaintiff...

Lazare Kaplan Int'l, Inc. v. Photoscribe Technologies, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's suit for infringement of its patents, related to a system that uses a fixed laser to create a series of microscopic spots on the...

Spansion, Inc. v. Int'l Trade Comm'n

Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, International Trade
In plaintiff's suit under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1990, claiming that seven defendants infringed its patents through the importation or sale...

Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc.

Cyberspace Law, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's suit for infringement of patents related to method claims directed to a content delivery services that delivers the base document of a...

Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services

Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
On remand from the United States Supreme Court for further consideration in light of the Court's holding in Bilski v. Kappos, 561 U.S. --, 130 S. Ct....

Chadwell v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Judges & Judiciary, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's challenge to the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM's) notice that it would not review or process his 2008 application for an...

Arctic Slope Native Ass'n, Ltd. v. Sebelius

Administrative Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Health Law, Indian Law
In an Indian tribe's suit against the Secretary of Health and Human Services for breach of contract, claiming that the government failed to pay...

Ladd v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
An order of the Court of Federal Claims granting summary judgment that no compensable taking occurred when the Department of Transportation's Surface...