United States Federal Circuit - November 2014 Opinion Summaries

Berlin v. Labor

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
In this case, the Merit Systems Protection Board determined that the Department of Labor had good cause for its decision to furlough its...

Roche Vitamins, Inc. v. US

Drugs & Biotech, International Trade
Decision of the United States Court of International Trade reclassifying plaintiff's "BetaTab" product as "Provitamins, unmixed" under subheading...

Versata Software, Inc. v. Callidus Software, Inc.

Intellectual Property
Denial of a stay, pending the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) covered business method (CBM) review of the patents-in-suit...

O'Bryan v. McDonald

Government Benefits
Decision of the Veterans Court finding no clear and unmistakable error in a 1980 Board of Veterans' Appeals decision to deny claimant disability...

E.Digital Corporation v. Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In this patent infringement case involving a device with a microphone and a removable, interchangeable flash memory recording medium that allows for...

Antares Pharma v. Medac Pharma

Intellectual Property, Patent
In this patent infringement action involving defendant's alleged infringement of plaintiff's reissue patent RE44,846, which describes a system for...

Ultramercial v. Hulu

Intellectual Property, Patent
In this patent infringement action involving plaintiff's '545 patent - describing a method for distributing copyrighted media products online for...

Azure Networks v. CSR

Intellectual Property, Patent
In this patent infringement action involving the '129 patent, which describes a network for wireless communications between a central hub device and...

Williamson v. Citrix Online

Intellectual Property, Patent
In this patent infringement action involving alleged infringement of the '840 patent, which describes methods and systems for distributed learning...