all - Opinion Summaries

ABBOT LAB. v. TORPHARM, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Judgment of patent infringement is improper where disputes of material fact remain concerning the nature of an accused product, but patents in suit...

IN RE PHILIP R. THRIFT

Intellectual Property, Patent
Patent claims related to a computer speech interface program were improperly rejected for obviousness where the examiner failed to address the...

BAYER AG v. SCHEIN PHARM., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
A patent directed toward a class of chemical compounds was entitled to the filing date of its parent application, where defendant failed to show that...

ALLEN ENG'G CORP. v. BARTELL INDUS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
A judgment of infringement and award of damages is vacated where the court did not construe the claims at issue and did not identify the specific...

TROVAN, LTD. v. SOKYMAT SA

Intellectual Property, Patent
A finding, that a defendant was not entitled to co-inventor status of patents for a passive transponder, is reversed and remanded for determination...

HONEYWELL INC. v. VICTOR CO. OF JAPAN, LTD.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent claim for an aperture mask for a camera autofocus system, a judgment of noninfringement is reversed and the owner is entitled to show...

RILES v. SHELL EXPLORATION & PROD. CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Evidence did not establish literal infringement of a patent relating to construction and installation of fixed offshore platforms for oil drilling,...

NEW RAILHEAD MFG., L.L.C. v. VERMEER MFG. CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Suits for patent infringement from the manufacture and distribution of a competing drill bit were properly invalidated under 35 U.S.C. section 102(b),...

DEPRENYL ANIMAL HEALTH, INC. v. THE UNIV. OF TORONTO INNOVATIONS FOUND.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Licensing the practice of an invention claimed in a U.S. patent constitutes purposeful availment of the benefits of U.S. patent law, thus...

ENZO BIOCHEM, INC. v. GEN-PROBE INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal from a finding that claims on a patent, directed to nucleic acid probes, were invalid, reference in a patent specification to a deposit...