United States Federal Circuit - August 2016 Opinion Summaries

Veritas Techs. LLC v. Veeam Software Corp.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of inter partes review involving a computer patent that describes and claims systems and methods through which, while certain processes...

Liberty Ammunition, Inc. v. US

Government Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an intellectual property action, the Court of Federal Claims decision that the U.S. Army's use of ammunition rounds embodies the claims of...

Otter Products, LLC v. US

Commercial Law, Tax Law, International Trade
In an international trade action, arising after the government classified plaintiff's protective cases for smartphones as 'similar containers' under...

Jones v. Dep't of Health and Human Services

Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law, Government Contracts, Administrative Law
In an action brought by a retired veteran under the Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, 38 U.S.C. sections 4301-4333 (2012),...

Piszel v. US

Labor & Employment Law, Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Contracts
In an action arising out of plaintiff's termination as CFO of Freddie Mac, alleging that the government's refusal to pay a contractual severance...

Zafer Taahhut Insaat ve Ticaret A.S. v. US

Government Contracts, Construction
In an appeal from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims's grant of summary judgment that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not constructively change the...

Kerrigan v. MSPB

Administrative Law, Workers' Compensation
In an appeal of a final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board dismissing, for lack of jurisdiction, his claim that his workers' compensation...

Rosario-Febregas v. MSPB

Labor & Employment Law, Administrative Law
In an action seeking review of a final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board dismissing petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction after...

Scriptpro, LLC v. Innovations Associates, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
the District Court's grant of summary judgment that certain claims are invalid for lack of written descriptions is reversed where because the...

CS Wind Vietnam Co., Ltd. v. US

International Trade
In an action brought by a Vietnamese manufacturer of wind towers, that was selling its products in the U.S. at over a calculated 50% below normal...