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C P INTERESTS INC. v. CALIFORNIA POOLS INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property
Restatement (Second) of Torts 623(a) permits a cause of action for business disparagement without proof of special damages, so attorneys fees alone...

PEEL & CO., INC. v. THE RUG MARKET

Intellectual Property
Where plaintiff has raised a genuine issue of material fact as to whether a particular rug design was widely disseminated among those involved in the...

PIONEER MAGNETICS, INC. v. MICRO LINEAR CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Prosecution history estoppel precludes infringement under the doctrine of equivalents where the prosecution history demonstrates that the amendment...

TY, INC. v. JONES GROUP, INC.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Plaintiff need only demonstrate at preliminary injunction stage that it has a "better than negligible" chance of succeeding on the merits to justify...

MATTHEW BENDER & CO. v. WEST PUBLISHING

Intellectual Property
A court may not assess attorney's fees against a publisher for providing insufficient copyright notice on government works under Section 403 of the...

VIRTUAL WORKS, INC. v. VOLKSWAGEN OF AM.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property
Where company founders admitted a dual purpose in registering domain name - designating their own company, but also selling to trademark holder if the...

ADVANTAGE RENT-A-CAR, INC. v. ENTER. RENT-A-CAR, CO.

Intellectual Property
Even if a mark is insufficiently famous for protection under the Federal Trademark Dilution Act, it may still be distinctive enough for purposes of...

ACCUSOFT CORP v. PALO

Contracts, Intellectual Property
Where a company extends distribution rights to a product days before a court hearing that might have eliminated its rights in the product, that fact...

GLOBETROTTER SOFTWARE, INC. v. ELAN COMPUTER GROUP, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where a unique identifier is assigned to each license file regardless of whether that license file contains any licenses, the identifier is a defining...

TRONZO v. BIOMET, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
An patent infringement damages award for lost profits based on defendant's profits from sales of the device lacks the necessary nexus with the tort...