United States Federal Circuit - March 2014 Opinion Summaries

Thai Plastic Bags v. US

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, International Trade
The decision of the United States Court of International Trade affirming the United States Department of Commerce's Final Results of the Fifth...

Senju Pharmaceutical Co. v. Apotex Inc.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Dismissal of a second patent infringement suit between the parties, on the same patent based on amended claims resulting from a re-examination of the...

Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Actavis, Inc.

Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court's order denying plaintiff's motions for a preliminary injunction to prevent defendants from marketing and selling their respective...

Shire Development, LLC v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Judgment for plaintiff finding that defendant's product infringed plaintiff's patent, which claims a controlled-release oral pharmaceutical...

LaLonde v. HHS

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, the Court of Appeals properly upheld the special master's finding that...

Stone Lion Capital Partners v. Lion Capital, LLC

Intellectual Property, Trademark
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's decision refusing registration of the mark "STONE LION CAPITAL" proposed by the applicant due to a likelihood...

StoneEagle Services, Inc. v. Gillman

Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Trade Secrets
The district court's orders purporting to clarify a preliminary injunction and enjoining defendants from using various materials and processes first...

CMS Contract Management v. US

Government Contracts, Government Law
The Court of Federal Claims' denial of plaintiffs' request to set aside as unlawful the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD)...

Brain Life, LLC v. Elekta Inc.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment in favor of defendant, holding that plaintiff's patent infringement claim was barred on res judicata grounds is: 1) vacated in part...

Biggers v. Navy

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board sustaining petitioner's indefinite suspension by the Department of the Navy and holding that...