United States Federal Circuit - September 2015 Opinion Summaries

Achates Reference Publishing, Inc. v. Apple Inc.

Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action in which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision in inter partes review proceedings determined that certain claims of...

Nordock, Inc. v. Systems Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action involving a patent which claims the ornamental design of a lip and hinge plate for a dock leveler, the district court's...

State of Vermont v. MPHJ Technology Investments, LLC

Consumer Protection Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a case alleging violations of the Vermont Consumer Protection Act, 9 V.S.A. sections 2451 et seq. (VCPA), contending that letters mailed to Vermont...

Shire, LLC v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals, LLC

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In consolidated Hatch-Waxman Act litigation involving patents all directed to derivatives of ampehtamine, the district court's grant of plaintiff's...

Summit 6, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement case involving a patent related to the processing of digital content, alleging that that the process of sending photographs via the...

Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement suit involving five patents directed to smartphone and tabled interfaces, the district court's order, denying plaintiff's...

Astorney Technologies Inc. v. BAE Systems, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a consolidated infringement actions alleging that plaintiff is the sole exclusive licensee and owner of all rights to an invention entitled...

R+L Carriers, Inc. v. Qualcomm, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action involving a patent, which underwent ex parte reexamination and to which plaintiff added language to all of the claims at...

Ivera Medical Corp. v. Hospira, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement suit involving three patents that share the same written description, which relate to a cleaning device to be used to reduce...

Dynamic Drinkware LLC v. National Graphics, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of an inter partes review not to reject claims 1 and 12 of appelee's patent, directed to making molded plastic article bearing a...