all - Opinion Summaries

COOK v. ROBBINS

Intellectual Property
Defendant has the burden of proving that some or all of its gross revenues did not result from its infringment of plaintiff's copyrighted work.

WATTS v. XL SYSTEMS, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
When claim language is not clear on its face, the court must consult the specification to determine patentee definitions for the terms.

IN RE MITCHELL R. SWARTZ

Intellectual Property, Patent
Lack of evidence of operability, balanced against several references showing that petitioner's results were irreproducible, properly resulted in a PTO...

THE LI SECOND FAMILY LTD PARTNERSHIP v. TOSHIBA CORP.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Failure to disclose a PTO Board of Appeals decision regarding prior art, combined with affirmative misrepresentation to a PTO examiner, is inequitable...

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC. v. TESSERA, INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the license agreement between the parties requires that any litigation must occur in a particular forum, this requirement includes infringement...

YAMANOUCHI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. v. MERCK & CO., INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Where defendant fails to show why one skilled in the art would undertake a complex combination of steps or even certain specific steps to combine two...

INTERACTIVE GIFT EXPRESS, INC. v. COMPUSERVE INC.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where neither the patent claim language nor the specification preclude it, defining "a point of sale location" as a location where a consumer goes to...

MAURIZIO v. GOLDSMITH

Intellectual Property
Breach of contract litigation in state court alleging joint authorship of a book will not toll the statute of limitations for subsequent copyright...

PURDUE PHARMA L.P. v. FAULDING INC.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Patent claims are invalid where the claim covers an invention not specifically mentioned in the patent application, even though the patent is broad...