United States Federal Circuit - January 2016 Opinion Summaries

Akzo Nobel Coatings, Inc. v. Dow Chem. Co.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In consolidated appeals in an infringement action relating to a patent directed to an extrusion process that generates low viscosity aqueous polymer...

Avid Tech., Inc. v. Harmonic, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
A jury verdict finding that defendant did not infringe two of plaintiff's patents, concerning data storage systems that allow users to store and...

Agilent Tech. Inc. v. Waters Tech. Corp.

Intellectual Property
In an action seeking review of a final decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes reexamination...

Lumen View Tech. LLC v. Findthebest.com, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Attorney's Fees
In an infringement action involving a patent directed to a method for facilitating bilateral and multilateral decision-making, the district court's...

Pfizer, Inc. v. Lee

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal involving a patent which claimed a pharmacological method utilized in the treatment of cancer, the district court's grant of summary...

Mortgage Grader, Inc. v. First Choice Loan Servs., Inc.

Patent, Intellectual Property
In an action involving patents directed to systems and methods for assisting borrowers to obtain loan, plaintiff's appeals of district court’s denial...

Nan Ya Plastics Corp., Ltd. v. US

International Trade
In an appeal of the Department of Commerce's administrative review of the antidumping duty order covering polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and...

Mueller v. Government Printing Office

Labor & Employment Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Contracts
In a grievance against petitioner's employer, which was referred to an arbitrator pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, the arbitrator's...

Hymas v. US

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Government Contracts
In the government's appeal of a decision of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims finding that it possessed subject matter jurisdiction under the Tucker...

McCarthy v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd.

Labor & Employment Law
In a petition for review, brought by a plaintiff who was formerly employed as a supervisory attorney for the United States International Boundary and...