all - Opinion Summaries

Gibson Guitar, Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars

Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a trademark-infringement dispute concerning guitars, summary judgment in favor of plaintiff is reversed where there is no basis on which it can...

Symbol Tech. v. Lemelson Med.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute concerning automatic bar code technology, the district court did not abuse its discretion in holding that defendant's patents are...

Network Commerce v. Microsoft

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute concerning a method for purchasing electronic information, judgment of non-infringement in favor of defendant is affirmed where...

Crater Corp. v. Lucent Tech.

Intellectual Property, Military Law, Patent
In a patent dispute concerning an underwater coupling device, dismissal of plaintiff's complaint is reversed and remanded to determine the effect of...

In re: Fisher

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Expressed sequence tags(EST) are unpatentable for lack of utility under 35 U.S.C. section 101 unless there is a known use for the genes from which...

Davidson & Assoc. v. Internet Gateway

Copyright, Intellectual Property
Defendants' reverse engineering of plaintiff's game software violated the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium...

M2 Software, Inc. v. Madacy Entm't.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a trademark infringement dispute, a jury verdict in favor of defendant is affirmed where plaintiff failed to demonstrate that the "M2...

Arizona Cartridge v. Lexmark Int'l Inc.

Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, False Advertising, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court properly found that plaintiff has offered no evidence that defendant's advertisements constitute deceptive or unfair business...

Kay Berry, Inc. v. Taylor Gifts, Inc.

Copyright, Intellectual Property
In a copyright infringement claim, the district court erred in finding that plaintiff's copyright registration was invalid where it ignored the...

Andrx Pharm. Inc. v. Elan Corp.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Dismissal of plaintiff-drug manufacturer's suit against defendant-patentholder for its initiation of patent infringement proceedings is reversed where...