United States Federal Circuit - February 2014 Opinion Summaries

Starhome GmbH v. AT&T Mobility LLC

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an action alleging infringement of plaintiff's patent for "System and Methods for Global Access to Services for Mobile Telephone Subscribers,"...

Elcommerce.com v. SAP AG

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an action alleging infringement of plaintiff's patent directed to a system and method of monitoring a supply chain of components in order to...

GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Banner Pharmacaps, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement action in which plaintiff alleged that drug products containing the molecule dutasteride that defendants propose to market...

Lighting Ballast Control LLC v. Philips Electronics North America

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
The rule set forth in Cybor Corp. v. FAS Technologies, Inc., 138 F.3d 1448 (Fed. Cir. 1998) (en banc) establishing the standard of appellate review...

Mason v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits
The rejection of the veteran's attorney's Notice of Disagreement (NOD) that contested the denial of his direct fee request is affirmed, where: 1) the...

Frans Nooren Afdichtingsstem v. Stopaq Amcorr Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of non-infringement of plaintiff's patent for a composition used for insulating and protecting manhole covers is vacated and...

Nycal Offshore Development Corporation v. US

Government Contracts, Oil and Gas Law, Remedies
In a damages dispute arising out of litigation over a number of offshore oil and gas leases that the United States sold to oil companies in the 1980s,...

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. v. Zydus Pharmaceuticals USA

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Judgment finding that defendants had infringed claim 1 of plaintiff's patent related to its drug Prevacid, an orally disintegrable tablet, and failed...

Ring & Pinion Service Inc. v. ARB Corporation

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of non-infringement of defendant's patent for an improved automobile locking differential in favor of plaintiff is reversed and...

Butamax(TM) Advanced Biofuels v. Gevo, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Judgment in favor of defendant on plaintiff's claims of infringement of its patents related to a microbial host cell used in making fuel or fuel...