all - Opinion Summaries

ANCHOR WALL SYS., INC. v. ROCKWOOD RETAINING WALLS, INC.

Construction, Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court erred in its claim construction of patents that claim the interlocking features of masonry blocks that can be stacked to...

CORDIS CORP. v. MEDTRONIC AVE, INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court erred in its claim construction and its application of prosecution history estoppel for a patent dealing with expandable coronary...

NYSTROM v. TREX CO., INC.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Defendant's invalidity and unenforceability counterclaim as to various claims of a patent remains pending at the district court and the judgment...

FOREST LABS., INC. v. ABBOTT LABS.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Award of attorneys' fees is reversed where the district court erred in finding this case to be "exceptional" under 35 U.S.C. section 285 based on...

HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. v. MUSTEK SYS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
A judgment of infringement of the asserted claims of an optical scanner patent is reversed, and a judgment of invalidity of the asserted claims of a...

BJ SERVS. CO. v. HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Oil and Gas Law, Patent
The district court did not err in ruling that a patent, directed to a method of fracturing subterranean formations to stimulate oil and gas wells, is...

SCHERING CORP. v. GENEVA PHARMS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court correctly found that plaintiff's patent for the antihistamine loratadine inherently anticipates two claims of a patent that...

MCNEIL-PPC, INC. v. L. PERRIGO CO.

Attorney's Fees, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Though the district court correctly determined that asserted claims of plaintiff's patents directed to a method for treating gastrointestinal distress...

MINTON v. NAT'L ASSOC. OF SEC. DEALERS, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Plaintiff's lease of a computer program and telecommunications network, which performed similarly to what plaintiff claimed in a patent directed to a...

ULTRA-PRECISION MFG. LTD. v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
There is no appellate jurisdiction to hear an interlocutory appeal of grant of two separate motions in limine, certified under Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b),...