all - Opinion Summaries

FISKARS, INC. v. HUNT MFRG. CO.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
A damages award of lost profits will not be reopened after trial merely because market data, probative of the acceptability of a non-infringing...

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH STORES, INC. v. AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS, INC.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a suit between two clothiers, alleging "trade dress" infringement under Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, where plaintiff's clothing designs and...

DANA CORP. v. AMERICAN AXLE & MFG., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment, holding that plaintiff's patents were invalid under the public use and on-sale bars of 35 U.S.C. section 102(b), vacated because...

ENTREPRENEUR MEDIA, INC. v. SMITH

Intellectual Property, Trademark
Applying the likelihood of confusion analysis, defendant, who used word "ENTREPRENEUR" in connection with his public relations company's publications,...

DISPATCH AUTOMATION, INC. v. RICHARDS

Commercial Law, Contracts, Intellectual Property
In diversity suit for breach of contract, summary judgment affirmed where, based on the evidence in pretrial discovery, no reasonable jury could find...

BAYER AG v.BIOVAIL CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court erred in finding that it had necessarily and sufficiently construed the claims of a pharmaceutical composition patent in a...

TATE ACCESS FLOORS, INC. v. INTERFACE ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCES, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The grant of preliminary injunction barring appellant from infringing a raised floor tile beveled edge patent was affirmed because appellant did not...

HILDEBRAND v. STECK MFG. CO., INC.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where all of Colorado inventor's documented contacts with Ohio were for the purpose of warning two manufacturers there of their potential infringement...

VULCAN ENG'G CO., INC. v. FATA ALUMINIUM, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
District court's ruling that plaintiff's die cast system patent is valid and infringed affirmed, however case remanded for a determination of whether...

KELLY v. ARRIBA SOFT CORP.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
The creation and use of "thumbnails," miniature versions of images, in a search engine falls within the fair use doctrine, however, the display of the...