all - Opinion Summaries

Phillips v. Pembroke Real Estate, Inc.

Copyright, Intellectual Property, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit by an artist against a real estate company alleging a violation of his rights under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) through the...

Horizon Personal Communications, Inc. v. Sprint Corp.

Commercial Law, Communications Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, M&A, Remedies, Trademark
In a breach of contract action arising out of the merger of Nextel with and into a subsidiary of Sprint, the court finds that: 1) Sprint Nextel will...

In Re: Tamoxifen Citrate Antitrust Litig.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Dismissal of complaint is affirmed over claim that the district court erred in dismissing the complaint based on its conclusion that the settlement...

T-Peg, Inc. v. Vermont Timber Works, Inc.

Construction, Copyright, Intellectual Property
Summary judgment for defendant in an architectural copyright infringement suit is reversed where copyright protection in architectural works covers...

Cook Biotech Inc. v. Acell, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
A judgment finding that defendant's commercial product infringed a patent involving a tissue graft composition and that individuals willfully induced...

Schwan's IP, LLC v. Kraft Pizza Co.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
Summary judgment for defendant, a producer and supplier of frozen pizzas, on a competitor's trademark infringement claim regarding the use of the term...

Conoco, Inc. v. Energy & Envtl. Int'l, L.C.

Intellectual Property, Oil and Gas Law, Patent
In a patent case involving processes for making agents injected into oil and gas pipelines to reduce friction, a district court's judgment is affirmed...

Monsanto Co. v. Scruggs

Agriculture, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
In a case involving patented biotechnology, grant of plaintiff's motions for summary judgment of patent invalidity and infringement, antitrust...

Jean Alexander Cosmetics, Inc. v. L'Oreal USA, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
The view of the First Restatement of Judgments and other courts of appeals that permit the application of issue preclusion to alternative findings is...

Electro Source, LLC v. Brandess-Kalt-Aetna Group, Inc.

Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a trademark dispute, a summary judgment determination of abandonment and trademark cancellation was not appropriate when the record supported an...