all - Opinion Summaries

CUSTOM COMPUTER SERVS., INC. v. PAYCHEX PROPS., INC.

Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
The PTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's dismissal of defendant's notice of opposition to a trademark application for having been untimely filed is...

ANDREAS v. VOLKSWAGEN OF AM., INC.

Civil Procedure, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Remedies
District court properly exercised jurisdiction over Rule 50(a) motion as it gave notice of issues raised. District court order vacating award of...

INTELLECTUAL PROP. DEV., INC. v. UA-COLUMBIA CABLEVISION OF WESTCHESTER, INC.

Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment of non-infringement of a patent directed to "broadcasting systems with fibre optic transmission lines" is affirmed in favor of...

SCHOLASTIC ENTM'T INC. v. FOX ENTM'T GROUP, INC.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Copyright, Intellectual Property
In a claim alleging copyright infringement for the sole purpose of obtaining a determination as to ownership, questions regarding the ownership of the...

SUNRACE ROOTS ENTERPRISE CO., LTD. v. SRAM CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court erred in construing a claim used in defendant's patent relating to bicycle gear-shifting devices, a declaratory judgment of...

SNOW v. WRS GROUP, INC.

Commercial Law, Copyright, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property
In an action arising over the commercial use of photographs taken during plaintiff's pregnancy, because issue of terminated consent was neither...

MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES LICENSING, LLC. v. THE UPPER DECK CO.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
In entering summary judgment in a suit for infringement on the basis of claim preclusion, the district court erred in concluding that the dismissal of...

IN RE LES HALLES DE PARIS J.V.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board applied an outdated standard for section 2(e)(3) of the Lanham Act, in its refusal to register a mark because the...

IDAHO POTATO COMM'N. v. M&M PRODUCE FARM & SALES

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Trademark
The district court erred in holding defendant's counterclaims for cancellation of plaintiff's certification marks were barred by estoppel.

ABBOTT LABS v. SYNTRON BIORESEARCH, INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Judgment of non-infringement is reversed as to two claims in a patent generally directed to devices and methods for performing chemical analysis.