United States Federal Circuit - August 2018 Opinion Summaries

Ericsson Inc. v. Intellectual Ventures I, LLC

Intellectual Property, Patent
Vacated and remanded a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Appeals Board (PTO Board) that certain claims relating to a wireless...

Zheng CAI v. Diamond Hong, Inc.

Trademark, Intellectual Property
Affirmed the decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s decision cancelling registration of plaintiff’s trademark for a green tea product due...

Villareal v. Bureau of Prisons

Administrative Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
Affirmed an arbitrator’s decision sustaining plaintiff’s removal from employment as a corrections officer with the Bureau of Prisons. The Federal...

In re Maatita

Intellectual Property, Patent
Held that a patent application covering the design of an athletic shoe bottom should not have been rejected. The applicant argued that the patent...

Shaw v. US

Injury & Tort Law, Military Law, Health Law
Held that the U.S. government did not breach its obligations under a settlement arising out of injuries to a child born at a military hospital. The...

Oliver v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

Health Law, Drugs & Biotech
Affirmed that vaccinations given to an infant did not cause him to develop a seizure condition. The parents of an infant who developed an illness...

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe v. US

Indian Law, Water Law
Affirmed the dismissal of a federally recognized Indian tribe's lawsuit seeking damages and injunctive relief for the alleged taking and mismanagement...

Labatte v. US

Contracts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
Reversed and remanded where the plaintiff appealed from a judgment of the Court of Federal Claims which had dismissed his complaint for lack of...

Core Wireless Licensing v. Apple, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and vacated in part. Plaintiff brought a patent infringement action. A jury found that the defendant infringed on...

Click-to-Call Tech. v. Ingenio, Inc.

Patent, Administrative Law
Remanded with instructions to dismiss, in a case where the Federal Circuit concluded that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board erred in determining that...