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IN RE ELSNER

Agriculture, Intellectual Property, Patent
Rejection of plaintiff's plant patent application is reversed where the record is silent on the extent to which the foreign sales were known to the...

INNOVA/PURE WATER, INC. v. SAFARI WATER FILTRATION SYS.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute concerning bottle filter caps, the district court erred in granting summary judgment of noninfringement in favor of defendants...

IN RE WALLACH

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Plaintiffs unsuccessfully appeal the rejection of their claims for a patent application on grounds that plaintiffs did not describe the genetic...

HIGH CONCRETE STRUCTURES, INC. v. NEW ENTER. STONE AND LIME CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Plaintiff successfully challenged summary judgment of a cargo carrier patent, which declared it invalid for failure to comply with the best mode...

MARS, INC. v. H.J. HEINZ CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute, the district court applied the incorrect claim construction, and, consequently, summary judgment of non-infringement in favor of...

GLAXO GROUP v. APOTEX, INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute, defendant unsuccessfully appealed the district court's determination that its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA)infringes...

HUMANOIDS GROUP v. ROGAN

Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademark
In a trademark case, the court decided that the United States Patent and Trademark Office may reject an application to register a trademark because...

ELI LILLY v. ARADIGM CORP.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute, the Court reversed the district court's denial of defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law on a joint inventorship...

AFG INDUSTRIES, INC. v. CARDINAL IG COMPANY, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute concerning windows, the Court reversed summary judgment for defendant's claim of noninfringement because a factual dispute still...

UNITHERM FOOD SYSTEMS, INC. ET AL v. SWIFT-ECKRICH

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Injury & Tort Law, Patent
In a patent dispute case, the Court affirmed the district court's finding that US Patent No. 5,952,027 is invalid and unenforceable, and its decision...