all - Opinion Summaries

MEDTRONIC AVE., INC. v. ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR SYS., INC.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Patent
Defendant's application for a stay of patent infringement litigation pending arbitration pursuant to 9 USC 3 will be denied where plaintiff's patent...

SCHOELL v. REGAL MARINE INDUS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Defendant neither literally infringed plaintiff's boat hull patent where inventor clearly distinguished between the two boat keel shapes.

MENTOR H/S, INC. v. MED. DEVICE ALLIANCE, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where plaintiff offered substantial evidence at trial that ultrasonic liposuction device was not a staple item suitable for substantial noninfringing...

WAYMARK CORP. v. PORTA SYS. CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
35 USC 271(f)(2) does not require actual combination or assembly of shipped components.

HITZEMAN v. RUTTER

International Law, Patent
Where substantial evidence supports the Board of Patent Appeals' conclusion that appellants did not conceive of particle size and sedimentation rate...

KROLL v. FINNERTY

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Patent
The Patent and Trademark Office's ("PTO") authority to regulate patent law before the PTO under 35 USC 2(b)(2)(D) and 35 USC 32 will not preempt a...

NETWORLD, LLC v. CENTRALL CORP.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where an allegedly infringing computer system does not contain a local server counterpart of the limited database "caching" function of the patented...

SCIMED LIFE SYS., INC. v. ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR SYS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where plaintiff's asserted patent claims were limited to a structure not found in defendant's accused devices, the doctrine of equivalents precludes a...

CRYSTAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. v. TRITECH MICROELECTRONICS INT'L, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Trial preparations for defending a patent infringement case do not constitute the "due care" required before undertaking any potentially infringing...

COOPER v. GOLDFARB

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where appellant does not show that reduction of his invention to practice inures to the benefit of competing patent applicant, and fails to prove that...