United States Federal Circuit - June 2016 Opinion Summaries

Oakville Hills Cellar, Inc. v. Georgallis Holdings, LLC

Intellectual Property, Trademark, Administrative Law
In a vineyard-plaintiff's appeal of a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board dismissing its...

De Santis v. MSPB

Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought by a former government employee who was terminated while he was still in his probationary period, the Board's dismissal for lack of...

Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a case involving one necessary condition, under 35 U.S.C. section 120, for treating a patent application, filed as a continuation of an earlier...

Allied Erecting and Dismantling Co., Inc. v. Genesis Attachments, LLC

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of a U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) decision on inter partes reexamination, finding obvious certain claims of a patent...

Genzyme Therapeutic Prods. Ltd. P'ship v. Biomarin Pharm. Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Drugs & Biotech
In an appeal from decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in two inter partes review proceedings involving patents directed to treating Pompe's...

Nacchio v. US

White Collar Crime, Tax Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a tax case arising out of plaintiff's criminal conviction for insider trading, seeking an income tax credit of $17,974,832 for taxes paid on...

Acevedo v. US

Labor & Employment Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit brought by plaintiffs who are employed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security (CBP), as present and...

Rainey v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd.

Labor & Employment Law, Administrative Law
In an appeal brought by a government employee who was relieved of his duties as contracting officer representative after he refused his supervisor's...

Indacon, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Cyberspace Law
In a suit against Facebook, alleging that the software architecture for its social network infringes claims of a patent directed to a system and...

Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. v. NuVasive, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action on vacatur and remand from the U.S. Supreme Court for further consideration in light of Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems,...