all - Opinion Summaries

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO. v. RHONE-POULENC RORER, INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court's holding that defendant committed inequitable conduct in obtaining a patent, involving a semi-synthesis of taxol, a cancer...

BROOKHILL-WILK 1, LLC v. INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court erred in construing the limitation "remote location" in a patent directed to systems and methods for performing robotic...

AURA LAMP & LIGHTING, INC. v. INT'L TRADING CORP.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent, Sanctions
The Federal Circuit has jurisdiction over an appeal where a complaint contained a claim for patent invalidity, but an appeal from the district court's...

APEX INC. v. RARITAN COMPUTER, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court erred as a matter of law in the construction of the disputed claim limitations of the patents for keyboard, video, mouse (KVM)...

BIO-TECH. GEN. CORP. v. DURAMED PHARM., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement dispute over a patent for an oral contraceptive regimen, plaintiff provided evidence of menstrual shift evidence adequate to...

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP. v. INTEL CORP.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court unduly restrictively construed two claims of a patent for a "Bus Interface Unit," thus the judgment is reversed and remanded.

RIVERWOOD INT'L CORP. v. R.A. JONES & CO., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court erred in its conclusion that a patent directed to food packaging methods and machines is prior art. The district court did not err...

HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE, INC. v. PROMEGA CORP.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Regarding a DNA polymerase chain reaction invention, the district court did not clearly err in 1) finding that the inventors misrepresented the prior...

EATON CORP. v. ROCKWELL INT'L CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Transportation
The district court erroneously determined that the preamble of a claim directed at heavy-duty truck transmissions was not a limitation of the claim,...

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP. v. SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court improperly broadened the function of a communications satellite patent claim limitation by "reading out" the remaining claim...