all - Opinion Summaries

ROBOTIC VISION SYS, INC. v. VIEW ENG'G, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Whether or not the software needed to implement the claimed method existed at the time of the disclosure is irrelevant, where the offer to sell the...

INTELLECTUAL PROP. DEV., INC. v. TCI CABLEVISION OF CALIFORNIA, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where appellant maintains no "reasonable apprehension" that it will face an infringement suit from any successor in interest to the patent, it fails...

OAK TECH., INC. v. INT'L TRADE COMM'N

Intellectual Property, Patent
Substantial evidence supports finding of patent noninfringement, and no violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, where plaintiff's CD-ROM...

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

Intellectual Property, Patent
The "flexible bar" approach should not be used to determine the proper scope of equivalents, and where amendments narrowed the literal scope of claim...

TELEMAC CELLULAR CORP. v. TOPP TELECOM, INC.

Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where nothing in the written description suggests that the patentee intended the unambiguous language to be construed in a manner inconsistent with...

BRISTOL-MEYERS SQUIBB CO. v. BEN VENUE LABORATIIES, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
While plaintiff's inventors may have achieved success where defendant failed, one cannot obtain a valid patent on a known use of a known process that...

METRONIC, INC. v. ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR SYS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court correctly construed the means-plus-function limitation under 35 USC 112(6) where there is no clear link or association between...

AQUA MARINE SUPPLY v. AIM MACHINING, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The parties' settlement agreement "to settle all the claims now pending between them" moots any claim challenging the district court's decision...

ELECTRO SCIENTIFIC INDUS. v. GENERAL SCANNING INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Defendant's failure to show that its customers used the product for noninfrining uses does not support its claim for judgment as a matter of law on...

IN RE: HARUNA

Intellectual Property, Patent
Appellant's claimed patent design application for transparent region of pre-recorded optical disks differs from the existing patent design where the...