all - Opinion Summaries

EXXON CORP. v. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Although the PTO has no authority to waive the statutory requirement that every patent application must have at least one claim when filed, the PTO...

EXXON RESEARCH & ENG'G CO. v. US

Intellectual Property, Patent
A patent specification that teaches using the time quantity term "for a period sufficient" does not need to identify an upper or lower boundary for...

IN RE INLAND STEEL CO.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The fact that a patent teaches two steps produces optimal results does not negate the additional teaching that one step alone may have beneficial...

BROWN v. 3M

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where a claim is written using the disjunctive "or," and one of the options is anticipated by prior art, the entire claim is invalid for lack of...

HARBOR MOTOR CO., INC. v. ARNELL CHEVROLET-GEO, INC

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Only prevailing parties can receive attorney's fees pursuant to F. R. Civ. Proc. 68, and an unapportioned offer under Rule 68, on behalf of multiple...

HILGRAEVE CORP. v. SYMENTEC CORP.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the claim construction distinguishes prior art as unable to prevent an operating system from accessing a computer virus, defendant's expert...

PIECZENIK v. DYAX CORP.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Even assuming that the defendant infringed plaintiff's patent, where plaintiff alleges that the infringing activity concluded prior to delivery of the...

FINA TECH. INC. v. EWEN

Intellectual Property, Patent
35 USC 256 does not give the district court authority to order a change in the order of inventors.

DOWNING v. ABERCROMBIE & FITCH

Intellectual Property, Copyright
Federal copyright law does not preempt a California state law claim for right of publicity even if the publisher purchased the copyright of the...

LOGAN v. BURGERS OZARK COUNTRY CURED HAMS INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent, False Advertising
Where a company advertises a product that is only possible through the use of a process for which the company does not have a license, the inventor of...