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BJ SERVS. CO. v. HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Oil and Gas Law, Patent
The district court did not err in ruling that a patent, directed to a method of fracturing subterranean formations to stimulate oil and gas wells, is...

IN RE PACER TECH.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
The PTO's refusal to register as a trademark an adhesive container cap design on the ground that the design was not inherently distinctive is...

SCHERING CORP. v. GENEVA PHARMS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court correctly found that plaintiff's patent for the antihistamine loratadine inherently anticipates two claims of a patent that...

MCNEIL-PPC, INC. v. L. PERRIGO CO.

Attorney's Fees, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Though the district court correctly determined that asserted claims of plaintiff's patents directed to a method for treating gastrointestinal distress...

TUFENKIAN IMPORT/EXPORT VENTURES, INC. v. EINSTEIN MOOMJY, INC.

Copyright, Intellectual Property
In a copyright infringement case involving textile designs combining two unrelated public domain carpets, defendant's composition was substantially...

HORPHAG RESEARCH LTD. v. PELLEGRINI

Attorney's Fees, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Defendant was not entitled to a nominative fair use defense for use of plaintiff's trademarked name on a website, but a dilution claim is remanded for...

MINTON v. NAT'L ASSOC. OF SEC. DEALERS, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Plaintiff's lease of a computer program and telecommunications network, which performed similarly to what plaintiff claimed in a patent directed to a...

ULTRA-PRECISION MFG. LTD. v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
There is no appellate jurisdiction to hear an interlocutory appeal of grant of two separate motions in limine, certified under Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b),...

KELLOGG CO. v. TOUCAN GOLF, INC.

Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a Lanham Act claim, 1) use of a word mark did not create likelihood of confusion among consumers as defendant's use of its mark is in an industry...

TORPHARM INC. v. RANBAXY PHARMS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The grant of summary judgment invalidating plaintiff's patent based on obviousness is reversed because, despite plaintiff's assertion of improved Form...