all - Opinion Summaries

Personal Audio LLC v. Electronic Frontier Foundation

Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirming a US Patent Trial and Appeal Board determination of unpatentability in the case of a podcasting system because the modifications were...

Home Housewares, LLC v. Whirlpool Corp.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Reversing a US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that a blender patent assigned to Whirlpool was not anticipated in...

Earnhardt v. Earnhardt

Trademark, Intellectual Property
Vacating and remanding the decision that the trademark in 'EARNHARDT COLLECTION' was not primarily a surname because it was unclear whether the Board...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Merus N.V.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirming the district court's ruling that the plaintiff in a patent infringement suit's patent was unenforceable due to their inequitable conduct...

Soft Gel Technologies, Inc. v. Jarrow Formulas, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirming the invalidation of three related Soft Gel patents by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board because a finding of obviousness requires a...

Parks LLC v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

Intellectual Property, False Advertising, Trademark, Consumer Protection Law
Affirming a summary judgment to the defendant Tyson Foods in a dispute involving their use of the word 'Parks' in reference to hotdogs where the...

Stone Creek, Inc. v. Omnia Italian Design, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
Affirming that a 1999 amendment to trademark statutes did not eliminate the plaintiff's requirement that they establish wilfulness to justify the...

Genband US LLC v. Metaswitch Networks Corp.

Remedies, Intellectual Property, Patent
Vacating and remanding for reconsideration a patent infringement case where a jury found infringement but the court refused a permanent injunction...

Marketquest Group, Inc. v. BIC Corp.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
Reversing the district court's summary judgment to the defendants in a trademark infringement suit, finding that genuine issues of material fact...

IPCOM GMBH & Co. v. HTC Corp.

Patent, Intellectual Property
Affirming that the Patent Trial Appeals Board had the authority to consider the patentability of claims and reject them, but vacating and remanding...