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LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP. v. SPACE SYSTEMS / LORAL, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The "flexible bar" approach should not be used to determine the proper scope of equivalents, and where amendments narrowed the literal scope of claim...

COMEDY III PROD, INC. v. GARY SADERUP, INC.

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property
Reproductions of lithographs and silkscreened T-shirts are equally entitled to First Amendment protection as original works of art but the work in...

TELEMAC CELLULAR CORP. v. TOPP TELECOM, INC.

Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where nothing in the written description suggests that the patentee intended the unambiguous language to be construed in a manner inconsistent with...

FAR OUT PRODUCTIONS, INC. v. OSKAR

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Trademark
A trademark owner is not collaterally estopped by a state trademark verdict where it was merely in privity with state court defendants and where owner...

BRISTOL-MEYERS SQUIBB CO. v. BEN VENUE LABORATIIES, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
While plaintiff's inventors may have achieved success where defendant failed, one cannot obtain a valid patent on a known use of a known process that...

METRONIC, INC. v. ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR SYS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court correctly construed the means-plus-function limitation under 35 USC 112(6) where there is no clear link or association between...

AQUA MARINE SUPPLY v. AIM MACHINING, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
The parties' settlement agreement "to settle all the claims now pending between them" moots any claim challenging the district court's decision...

ELECTRO SCIENTIFIC INDUS. v. GENERAL SCANNING INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Defendant's failure to show that its customers used the product for noninfrining uses does not support its claim for judgment as a matter of law on...

IN RE: HARUNA

Intellectual Property, Patent
Appellant's claimed patent design application for transparent region of pre-recorded optical disks differs from the existing patent design where the...

SCHOELL v. REGAL MARINE INDUS., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Defendant neither literally infringed plaintiff's boat hull patent where inventor clearly distinguished between the two boat keel shapes.