all - Opinion Summaries

W.E. HALL CO., INC. v. ATLANTA CORRUGATING, LLC

Intellectual Property, Patent
Court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment of patent noninfringement, explaining that because defendant's pipe was not of single piece...

HONEYWELL INT'L INC. v. HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The rewriting of dependent claims into independent form coupled with the cancellation of the original independent claims creates a presumption of...

JACOBS v. NINTENDO OF AM., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
A settlement agreement between plaintiff and a non-party company protected not only the non-party, but the non-party's customers, including defendant,...

HOILIDAY MATINEE INC. v. RAMBUS, INC.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Intellectual Property, Patent
The claims alleged in the complaint arise under federal patent law, as such, California courts lack subject matter jurisdiction over plaintiff's...

XCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. v. PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC CO.

Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
Where a liquidated damages clause in a contract specifies the same amount of damages regardless of the severity of the breach, the proper judicial...

KAEMPE v. MYERS

Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Legal Malpractice, Patent
Plaintiff's claim for conversion of patent rights was properly dismissed because no such conveyance occurred. As he neglected to provide expert...

INNOMED LABS, LLC v. ALZA CORP.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where defendant was accused of price discrimination in the distribution of its patented drug, neither the jury instruction regarding whether the...

IN RE AM. ACAD. OF SCI. TECH CTR.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Several claims of a patent, describing a computer network in which the processing of user applications is distributed among several computers, were...

MICROCHIP TECH. INC. v. U.S. PHILIPS CORP.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Intellectual Property, Patent
The arbitration clause under the 1983 licensing agreement between defendant and General Instrument Corp. (GI) has not expired; district court must...

INTIRTOOL, LTD. v. TEXAR CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
District court clearly erred in finding that plaintiff should have known that it had a patent infringement claim more than six years prior to the...