all - Opinion Summaries

MANNING v. PARADIS

Intellectual Property, Patent
A Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences decision, that there was no reduction to practice before a senior party's filing date, is supported by...

CARDIAC PACEMAKERS, INC. v. ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC.

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
A patent for implantable defibrillators is invalid for indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. section 112, where specification of the patent fails to disclose...

NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS CORP. v. KONRAD

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In patent claims, directed to systems that allow a computer user to access and search a database residing on a remote computer, 1) invention...

TELCOMM TECHNICAL SERV., INC. v. SIEMENS ROLM COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where jurisdiction for a case as originally filed was predicated solely on a patent infringement counterclaim, no appellate jurisdiction exists, under...

TRINTEC INDUS., INC. v. TOP-U.S.A. CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
A customized watch catalogue did not anticipate, disclose, and enable each and every element of a process for production of faces for watches and...

BLACKLIGHT POWER, INC. v. ROGAN

Intellectual Property, Patent
Director of the Patent and Trademark Office had the authority to withdraw summarily a patent application from issue, following Notice of Allowance,...

CATALINA LIGHTING, INC. v. HOME DEPOT USA, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The holder of patents for a stand-alone electric lamp established wilful infringement, and the patents were neither invalid as obvious nor...

VARDON GOLF CO., INC. v. KARSTEN MFG. CORP.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
A grant of partial summary judgment of non-infringement in a prior patent case was not final for purposes of collateral estoppel, thus the court erred...

TELEFLEX, INC. v. FICOSA N. AM. CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of no best mode violation was properly granted to an assignee of a patent for a component installed in sport utility vehicles, and...

IN RE C. STEVEN MCDANIEL

Intellectual Property, Patent
The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences erroneously conflated separately stated grounds for rejection of patent claims, by selecting a...