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NAT'L STEEL CAR, LTD. v. CANADIAN PAC. RY., LTD.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Transportation
The record shows substantial merit in defendant's 35 U.S.C. section 272 defense to infringement, and in its obviousness defense. District court abused...

SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORP. v. EXCEL PHARMS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Defendant was not entitled to summary judgment of noninfringement. The present record does not address the foreseeability of sustained release agent...

RUIZ v. A.B. CHANCE CO.

Construction, Intellectual Property, Patent
Defendant's patented underpinning system was properly found to be obvious under 35 U.S.C. section 103; district court committed no clear error in...

GLAXO WELLCOME, INC. v. IMPAX LABS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Because plaintiff cannot prove infringement literally or under the doctrine of equivalents, summary judgment was appropriate. There is ample evidence...

LIQUID DYNAMICS CORP. v. VAUGHAN CO., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
When granting summary judgment of noninfringement of a patent concerning slurry tank structures, the district court erred in construing the claim term...

PSC COMPUTER PRODS., INC. v. FOXCONN INT'L, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because plaintiff dedicated plastic retainer clips to the public by explicitly claiming only clips made of metal while specifically disclosing that...

GOLIGHT, INC. v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
District court did not err in ruling that defendant willfully infringed claim 11 of plaintiff's patent by importing portable, wireless,...

NOELLE v. LEDERMAN

Intellectual Property, Patent
The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences properly found no interference-in-fact between plaintiff's patent application and defendants' patent for...

THE TORO CO. v. DEERE & CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court erred in holding plaintiff's aeration-method patent (No. 5,207,168) to be "valid"; the court did not construe this patent, did not...

PUREPAC PHARM. CO. v. THOMPSON

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Having assigned Warner-Lambert's gabapentin patent a use code corresponding to neurodegenerative diseases, the FDA acted arbitrarily and capriciously...