all - Opinion Summaries

IN RE WATTS

Intellectual Property, Patent
The US Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences properly sustained the examiner's rejection of several claims of a patent application directed to a...

IN RE CURTIS

Intellectual Property, Patent
In rejecting several claims of a US Patent for dental floss, the Board of Patent Appeals properly denied the inventors the benefit of the earlier...

ECO MFG. LLC v. HONEYWELL INT'L INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademark
The record supports district judge's refusal to enjoin plaintiff from marketing a round thermostat. The likelihood of a subsequent finding that a...

MEDICHEM, S.A. v. ROLABO, S.L.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Because it failed to recognize that claims 1 and 2 of plaintiff's patent plainly anticipate claims 1 and 17 of defendant's patent, the district court...

MATTEL, INC. v. GREINER AND HAUSSER GMBH

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
In ordering dismissal of this action concerning the Barbie doll, district court improperly determined that it lacked personal jurisdiction over the...

PREWITT ENTER. v. OPEC

Civil Procedure, International Law, Patent
District court properly dismissed this case for insufficient service of process. Because OPEC resides in Austria, where applicable law prohibits...

KUMAR v. OVONIC BATTERY CO., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of non-infringement is vacated and remanded because plaintiff's proposed claim construction, which relies on prior art cited in the...

ULEAD SYS., INC. v. LEX COMPUTER & MGMT. CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of inequitable conduct, finding that defendant's patent is unenforceable and expired because it falsely claimed status (and paid...

SULZER TEXTIL A.G. v. PICANOL N.V.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In patent cases in which claim construction rulings on disputed claim terms are made prior to trial and followed by the parties during the course of...

ERICSSON, INC. v. HARRIS CORP.

Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Grant of JMOL that defendants do not infringe plaintiff's US patent for an apparatus for supplying power to a telephone set in a telecom system, is...