United States Federal Circuit - April 2013 Opinion Summaries

Biosig Instruments, Inc. v. Nautilus, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment for defendant in patent infringement action regarding plaintiff's patent on a heart rate monitor associated with an exercise...

MacLean v. Department of Homeland Security

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
The decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board affirming the removal of petitioner from the position of Federal Air Marshal is vacated and...

Lazare Kaplan International v. Photoscribe Technologies, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In patent infringement suit, summary judgment of invalidity of plaintiff's patent, related to methods and systems for using lasers to make...

Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. Zenni Optical Inc.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court correctly ruled that plaintiff was collaterally stopped from pursuing its infringement suit regarding patents for magnetic clip-on...

K-Tech Telecommunications, Inc. v. Time Warner Cable, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Media Law
In consolidated cases alleging direct patent infringement against defendant Time Warner and defendant DirecTV, involving patents on identifying...

Conforto v. Merit Systems Protection Board

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
The Merit Systems Protection Board properly dismissed petitioner's claim that she was forced to retire due to events motivated by age and sex...

Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In consolidated patent infringement actions by generic pharmaceutical company defendants relating to combined oral contraceptive (COC) products, the...

Biogen Idec, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action involving a drug to treat Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, the District Court's construction of the claim term "anti-CD20...

Union Steel v. US

Administrative Law, International Trade
In an appeal of the US Court of International Trade affirming the Department of Commerce's use of zeroing to determine antidumping duties in...

Ladd v. US

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
Dismissal of plaintiff-landowners' takings claims arising out of the conversion of a railway right of way to a trail, is: 1) reversed and remanded in...