all - Opinion Summaries

Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Merck & Co., Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Patent, Intellectual Property
Affirming the judgment that Merck, initially defending its patent on Hepatitis C drugs against a competitor seeking to have them found invalid, who...

Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group

Patent, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property
Upholding the constitutionality of the inter partes review of the patentability of existing patents because patens fall within the public-rights...

Naruto v. Slater

Intellectual Property, Copyright, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
Affirming the district court dismissal of claims brought by a monkey, the continuation of the fascinating Monkey Selfie suit, holding that while the...

Voter Verified v. Election Systems and Software

Elections, Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirming the dismissal of a patent infringement claim relating to the verification of voter ballots because the claims were directed at...

James v. J2 Cloud Services

Intellectual Property, Patent, Contracts, Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law
Reversing the dismissal of a claim for correction of inventorship and state law claims for lack of jurisdiction in the case of a man claiming to be...

Montauk USA v. 148 South Emerson Associates LLC

Attorney's Fees, Intellectual Property, Trademark, Civil Procedure
Affirming the district court's determination that New York law allows for derivative litigation rights in a suit on Lanham Act claims and a motion for...

Droplets, Inc. v. E*Trade Bank

Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirming the determination by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a claim for the benefit of the filing date of an earlier patent application must...

John Bean Technologies Corp. v. Morris and Associates

Patent, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Reversing the district court's grant of summary judgment based on a finding of equitable estoppel and remanding a case in which asserted claims had...

Raniere v. Microsoft Corporation

Patent, Attorney's Fees, Intellectual Property
Affirming the grant of attorney fees and costs to Microsoft in a patent infringement suit in which the plaintiff failed to establish that they owned...

Apator Miitors APS v. Kamstrup A/S

Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirming the Final Written Decision of the US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes review of a patent on an...