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Rolls-Royce, PLC v. United Tech., Corp.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent interference proceeding, relating to swept fan blades used on turbofan jet engines, district court's reversal of the Board's judgment...

Optimum Corp. v. Emcore Corp.

Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit related to methods for improvements in an optical communication system, grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment...

Robertson v. Timmermans

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an interference proceeding before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences relating to patents for light-emitting diode replacement tubes for...

In re: Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an action claiming that defendant pharmaceutical companies violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act when they settled their dispute concerning the...

Bradford Co. v. Con Teyor N. Am., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit, involving patents related to shipping containers used to ship automobile door panels and related parts, district...

Avid Identification Sys., Inc. v. Crystal Import Corp.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's suit alleging infringement of a patent directed to a multi-mode radio-frequency identification system for reading encoded biocompatible...

ALZA Corp. v. ANDRX Pharm., LLC.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiff's patent infringement suit, involving methods for treating ADHD through a methylphenidate drug dosage that has an ascending release rate...

Medtronic Navigation, Inc. v. Brainlab Medizinische Computersysteme GMBH

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Sanctions
In an appeal by plaintiff and counsel in a patent infringement action, involving defendant's accused devices, which are image-guided surgical...

ClearPlay, Inc. v. Abecassis

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Media Law, Patent
In a patent license agreement dispute, arising from an underlying patent infringement suit involving patents related to systems for filtering...

Gillig v. Nike, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
In plaintiffs' suit against Nike, Inc., alleging inventorship claims of various patents relating to golf clubs owned by Nike and that Nike had...