all - Opinion Summaries

APTIX CORP. v. QUICKTURN DESIGN SYS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Litigation misconduct, while serving as a basis to dismiss the wrongful litigant, does not invalidate the original grant of a patent.

AM. BIOSCIENCE, INC. v. THOMPSON

Intellectual Property, Patent
Under the Hatch-Waxman Amendments a new drug application patent holder's letter to FDA stating it was de-listing its drug patent to extent it was...

J & M CORP. v. HARLEY-DAVIDSON, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the prosecution history specifically points out a flaw in prior art, the claim cannot reasonably be so broad as to cover the another invention...

SUPERIOR FIREPLACE CO. v. THE MAJESTIC PRODUCTS CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the correction of an alleged mistake under 35 USC 255 broadened a claim and was not clearly evident from the specification, drawings, and...

SCALTECH, INC. v. RETEC/TETRA, L.L.C.

Intellectual Property, Patent
An offer of commercial exploitation of a process, even if no license or sale of the patent is intended, implicates the on sale bar of 35 USC 102(b),...

MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. THOMPSON

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because 21 US 337(a) limits the ability to seek "delisting" as a form of relief to those actions "by and in the name of the United States", a private...

ASYST TECHS., INC. v. EMPAK, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The corresponding structure to a function set forth in a means-plus-function limitation must actually perform the recited function, not merely enable...

BRASSELER, U.S.A. I, L.P. v. STRYKER SALES CORP.

Attorney's Fees, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the inventors failed to disclose material information to their patent attorneys, and the attorneys failed to conduct an investigation adequate...

BALLARD MED. PRODS. v. ALLEGIANCE HEALTHCARE CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
District courts considering patent cases are not required to conduct a detailed, limitation-by-limitation construction of each of the asserted claims,...

XEROX CORP. v. 3COM CORP.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the patent for single stroke symbols (used for improved computer recognition of human handwriting) relies upon both geometric shape and the...