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UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC. v. CORLEY

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
While computer code, and computer programs constructed from code can merit First Amendment protection, a content-neutral regulation that prohibits...

RHONE-POULENC AGRO, S.A. v. DeKALB GENETICS CORP.

Intellectual Property
Under North Carolina law, evidence that party promised to disclose results of field tests imposed affirmative duty to do so when test results turned...

RHONE-POULENC AGRO, S.A. v. DeKALB GENETICS CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
A sublicensee that acquired the sublicense from a licensee that acquired the original license by fraud, may retain the sublicense by establishing that...

REXNORD CORP. v. LAITRAM CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Patent applicant's failure to describe in the specification a conceivable and possible future embodiment of his invention does not preclude claim...

SUSAN WAKEEN DOLL CO., INC. v. ASHTON-DRAKE GALLERIES

Intellectual Property, Copyright
Jury instruction that found copyright infringement if the two works were substantially similar and defendant had access to plaintiff's work...

NOVARTIS CORP. v. BEN VENUE LAB., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where patent holder claims alleged infringer's manufacturing process would infringe its patent, failure of patent holder's expert witness to...

APTIX CORP. v. QUICKTURN DESIGN SYS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Litigation misconduct, while serving as a basis to dismiss the wrongful litigant, does not invalidate the original grant of a patent.

AM. BIOSCIENCE, INC. v. THOMPSON

Intellectual Property, Patent
Under the Hatch-Waxman Amendments a new drug application patent holder's letter to FDA stating it was de-listing its drug patent to extent it was...

J & M CORP. v. HARLEY-DAVIDSON, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the prosecution history specifically points out a flaw in prior art, the claim cannot reasonably be so broad as to cover the another invention...

DVD COPY CONTROL ASS'N v. BUNNER

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
A computer source code which describes an alternative method of decrypting copy protection on DVD's is pure "speech" protected by the First Amendment.