all - Opinion Summaries

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. v. Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
35 U.S.C. section 119(a) does not permit an applicant for a U.S. patent to benefit from the priority of a foreign application previously filed by an...

Sony Elecs., Inc. v. Guardian Media Techs, Ltd.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an action seeking declaratory judgment that two of defendant's patents, relating to the V-Chip, were not infringed by the plaintiffs, invalid, and...

SafeTCare Mfg., Inc. v. Tele-Made, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit concerning a variable width bariatric modular bed, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where the patentee's...

In Re Icon Health & Fitness, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a challenge to a decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences during reexamination of a patent for a treadmill, determination that the...

Magic Kitchen LLC v. Good Things Int'l Ltd.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, False Advertising, Intellectual Property, Patent, Trade Dress
In suit alleging dress infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising regarding a kitchen device known as the "Tartmaster," order granting...

Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd. v. Merck KGaA

Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a suit alleging infringement of plaintiff's patents in peptides that contain the RGD sequence of amino acids after a series of medical experiments...

Jennings v. Auto Meter Prods., Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a RICO suit alleging that defendant had given false information to the Patent & Trademark Office in order to deny plaintiff a patent on an...

In re Metoprolol Succinate Patent Litigation

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a consolidated multidistrict patent infringement litigation alleging that defendants' Abbreviated New Drug Applications violated plaintiff's...

Pharmastem Therapeutics, Inc. v. Viacell, Inc.

Evidence, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Following a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff in a patent infringement action involving compositions and methods relating to a medical procedure for...

Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., Ltd.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute involving a magnetically coupled piston, a judgment of non-infringement in favor of defendant is affirmed as: 1) foreseeability...