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JACOBSEN v. DESERET BOOK CO.

Intellectual Property, Copyright
In a suit by an author of memoirs for copyright infringement against the publisher of a similar story, where numerous portions of the text could be...

R.C. BIGELOW, INC. v. LIBERTY MUT. INS. CO.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress
Under Connecticut law, the "advertising injury" provision of liability insurance policy obligated insurer to defend a claim that its insured infringed...

NEOMAGIC CORP. v. TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where a single chip contained both a graphics controller and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), summary judgment of noninfringement as to the patent...

HICKS v. MATTEL, INC.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Sanctions
District court decision, ordering defense counsel to pay plaintiff $501,565 in attorneys' fees incurred in defending frivolous action for infringement...

TECHSEARCH, L.L.C. v. INTEL CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In this infringement case dealing with complex computer microprocessor technology, the district properly articulated the claim construction and...

IN RE: KOLLAR

Intellectual Property, Patent
The offer of a license under a patent and a description of the invention, without more, does not fall within the on-sale bar of 35 U.S.C. section...

DHL CORP. v. COMM'R OF INTERNAL REVENUE

Intellectual Property, Trademark, Tax Law
The tax court incorrectly allocated the value of foreign trademark rights and unpaid royalties, and penalties imposed for those deficiencies were...

ADANG v. FISCHHOFF

Intellectual Property, Patent
Although the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences erred in its count construction, its findings that plaintiff's application would not have...

IN RE: SASTRY

Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
The PTO's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences' rejection of patent claim directed to a composition for treating and preventing HIV based on...

PALMER v. BRAUN

Intellectual Property, Copyright, Remedies
Difficult proof issues regarding the idea-expression dichotomy and the merger doctrine made it unlikely that plaintiff would succeed on the merits of...