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IN RE: GLAUG

Intellectual Property, Patent
Board of Patent Appeals' decision, rejecting all claims of patent application for elastic training pants, reversed, where the placement of adhesive in...

CONTESSA FOOD PRODS., INC. v. CONAGRA, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court improperly applied the "ordinary observer" test, by limiting its analysis of infringement of plaintiff's design patent of a...

KOHUS v. COSCO, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because video used in an infringement action was a substitute for a physical model and was created as an aid to the argument of counsel and the...

SCOTT v. KOYAMA

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences erred in holding that only chemical process laboratory activity can serve as evidence of...

FISKARS, INC. v. HUNT MFRG. CO.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
A damages award of lost profits will not be reopened after trial merely because market data, probative of the acceptability of a non-infringing...

DANA CORP. v. AMERICAN AXLE & MFG., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment, holding that plaintiff's patents were invalid under the public use and on-sale bars of 35 U.S.C. section 102(b), vacated because...

BAYER AG v.BIOVAIL CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court erred in finding that it had necessarily and sufficiently construed the claims of a pharmaceutical composition patent in a...

TATE ACCESS FLOORS, INC. v. INTERFACE ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCES, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The grant of preliminary injunction barring appellant from infringing a raised floor tile beveled edge patent was affirmed because appellant did not...

HILDEBRAND v. STECK MFG. CO., INC.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where all of Colorado inventor's documented contacts with Ohio were for the purpose of warning two manufacturers there of their potential infringement...

VULCAN ENG'G CO., INC. v. FATA ALUMINIUM, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
District court's ruling that plaintiff's die cast system patent is valid and infringed affirmed, however case remanded for a determination of whether...