all - Opinion Summaries

CHOU v. UNIV. OF CHICAGO

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
A putative inventor has standing to sue to correct inventorship under 35 USC 256, even without a potential ownership interest in the patent, where the...

RAPOPORT v. DEMENT

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the asserted prior art discusses treatment of a symptom, but does not anticipate that the discussed method would address the cause, the prior...

DUREL CORP. v. OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court is free to use outside sources in its claim construction, such as calculations of atomic mass percent, but not if the resulting...

GART v. LOGITECH, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The written description of a claim must explicitly limit the subject matter of the patent because drawings will only depict the preferred embodiment...

NILSSEN v. MOTOROLA, INC.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court must consolidate plaintiff's patent and trade secrets claims in district court because it was a mistake to separate the claims.

NEW YORK TIMES CO., INC. v. TASINI

Intellectual Property, Copyright
Databases that reproduce and distribute articles standing alone and not in context, and not as part of that particular collective work to which the...

SHIELDS v. ZUCCARINI

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Registering as domain names the misspellings of famous marks for purposes of profiting from consumer confusion violates 15 USC 1125(d)(1)(A)(ii)(I)...

GROUP ONE, LTD. v HALLMARK CARDS, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
35 USC 102(b), the on-sale bar to patent validity, requires a definite formal offer for sale in the contracts sense.

BREED v. HUGHES AIRCRAFT CO.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
Federal Circuit Court of Appeal has appellate jurisdiction over suit that had patent claim even though there were 13 other non-patent claims and state...

CADENCE DESIGN SYS., INC. v. AVANT! CORP.

Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
California Supreme Court certified to determine whether, under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, an infringment arises only upon the initial...