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BONNEVILLE INT'L CORP. v. PETERS

Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property
Where plaintiffs claimed that the exclusion from copyright protection for "nonsubscription broadcast transmissions" of recorded music is unambiguously...

DEERING PRECISION INSTRUMENTS, L.L.C. v. VECTOR DISTRIB. SYS., INC.

Attorney's Fees, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action concerning a patent for a scale, grant of summary judgment of no literal infringement and denial of defendant's motion for...

RESQNET.COM, INC. v. LANSA, INC.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action concerning a processes that downloads a screen of information from a remote mainframe computer onto a local personal...

STOREY v. CELLO HOLDINGS, LLC

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property
In an action brought under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), the district court decision was vacated where the plaintiff had...

GENZYME CORP. v. TRANSKARYOTIC THERAPIES, INC

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement suit, the district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant for non-infringement of plaintiff's patent, on methods of...

ACTV, INC. v. WALT DISNEY CO.

Cyberspace Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court erroneously construed various disputed claim limitations of a patent that concerns technology for the synchronization of...

BOUCHAT v. BALTIMORE RAVENS FOOTBALL CLUB

Copyright, Intellectual Property, Remedies, Sports Law
In a copyright infringement action, the district court correctly denied plaintiff the benefit of 17 U.S.C. section 504(a)(1), the statutory...

ACCO BRANDS, INC. v. MICRO SEC. DEVICES, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of noninfringement of a patent directed to a locking mechanism for portable electronic devices, in favor of defendant, is affirmed.

STATE CONTRACTING & ENG'G CORP. v. CONDOTTE AM., INC.

Construction, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action against a number of private contractors concerning a patent for the formation of an integrated column and pile used in...

LAMPS PLUS, INC. v. SEATTLE LIGHTING FIXTURE CO.

Attorney's Fees, Copyright, Intellectual Property
A table lamp will not be afforded copyright protection where sufficient originality did not arise from the assemblage of its component parts as...