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SYNTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD. v. MICROCHIP TECH., INC.

Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Issues presented in an action seeking a declaration of invalid copyright ownership are properly considered first by the Register of Copyrights, so...

SYNTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD. v. MICROCHIP TECH., INC.

Intellectual Property, Copyright
Issues presented in an action seeking declaration of invalid copyright ownership are properly considered first by the Register of Copyrights, so that...

LEATHERMAN TOOL GROUP, INC. v. COOPER INDUS., INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Remedies
On remand from the US Sup. Ct., which instructed that appellate courts must review independently the constitutionality of punitive damage awards,...

KARL STORZ ENDOSCOPY-AMERICA, INC. v. SURGICAL TECH., INC.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Intellectual Property
Medical instrument manufacturer presented a triable issue of fact as to whether defendants, who refurbished the instruments and left plaintiff's mark...

ECOLAB INC. v. PARACLIPSE, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In a dispute over an allegedly infringing insect trap, because there was sufficient evidence to support a jury verdict of infringement under the...

PICKHOLTZ v. RAINBOW TECH., INC.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action concerning encryption for the prevention of piracy of computer software, the proper construction of the claim's term...

E. & J. GALLO WINERY v. SPIDER WEBS LTD.

Commercial Law, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Defendants who operated website under registered domain name, for which name plaintiff held a trademark, for a commercial purpose not connected with...

LEGGETT & PLATT, INC. v. HICKORY SPRINGS MFG. CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Trade Secrets
The district court correctly construed the disputed claim term and hence found no literal infringement of a box spring assembly, however, genuine...

GRIFFIN v. BERTINA

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences properly construed count as including preamble and "wherein" clauses, and thus required...

ENZO BIOCHEM, INC. v. GEN-PROBE INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court did not err in granting summary judgment that the claims of a patent, which is directed to nucleic acid probes that selectively...