all - Opinion Summaries

Hyatt v. Office of Management and Budget

Intellectual Property, Administrative Law
Held that an individual could obtain judicial review of the federal government's denial of his petition under the Paperwork Reduction Act, which...

Wilson v. Dynatone Publishing Co.

Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Held that a copyright ownership claim was timely filed. The statute of limitations was not triggered by the defendants' act of registering their...

Brand Services, LLC v. Irex Corp.

Trade Secrets, Intellectual Property
Revived an industrial scaffolding company's claim that a former employee stole trade secrets and confidential information when he went to work for a...

Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin

Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Granted a new trial in a copyright case involving a claim that Led Zeppelin copied key portions of its hit Stairway to Heaven from a song written by a...

Nobel Biocare Services AG v. Instradent USA, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
A company appealed from the determination in an inter partes review that certain claims of its patent directed to dental implants were unpatentable....

Plixer International, Inc. v. Scrutinizer GMBH

Intellectual Property, Trademark, Civil Procedure
Held that the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over a German company in a trademark infringement action did not violate due process. The...

ParkerVision, Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirmed that some, but not all, claims in a telecommunications patent were unpatentable as obvious. Finding no error, the Federal Circuit affirmed...

University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc.

Patent, Intellectual Property, Drugs & Biotech
Affirmed a judgment of no interference-in-fact in a patent case involving the CRISPR-Cas9 system for the targeted cutting of DNA molecules. The...

IXI IP, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirmed that certain patent claims relating to a wireless networking device were invalid as obvious. The Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial...

Orexo AB v. Actavis Elizabeth LLC

Intellectual Property, Patent
Reversed a judgment that a patent for a pharmaceutical product was invalid on the ground of obviousness. The Federal Circuit concluded that...