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Mortgage Grader, Inc. v. First Choice Loan Servs., Inc.

Patent, Intellectual Property
In an action involving patents directed to systems and methods for assisting borrowers to obtain loan, plaintiff's appeals of district court’s denial...

Simmons v. Stanberry

Intellectual Property, Entertainment Law, Copyright, Media Law
In a copyright action over the right to use a hip-hop beat, the district court's dismissal is affirmed where plaintiff's suit is time-barred after he...

Ethicon-Endo Surgery, Inc. v. Covidien LP

Intellectual Property, Patent, Drugs & Biotech
In an appeal of inter partes review by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board which found all challenged claims of a patent, directed to a surgical device...

In re Urbanski

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the examiner’s rejection of...

Wi-LAN, Inc. v. Apple, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action involving a patent concerning a wireless data communication technique called Multi-Code Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum...

Fed. Treasury Ent. Sojuzplodoimport, OAO Moscow Distillery Cristall v. Spirits Int'l B.V.

Trademark, International Law, Intellectual Property
In an international trademark action involving rival claims to the "Stolichnaya" trademarks, the district court's dismissal is vacated in part and...

Redline Detection LLC v. Star Envirotech, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of the inter partes review (IPR) decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), which denied plaintiff's motion to submit...

Adobe Systems v. Christenson

Intellectual Property, Copyright, Cyberspace Law
In a copyright action, the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants is affirmed and the court held that a party raising a first sale...

Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Sys., Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, in an infringement action related to a method of providing faster and more reliable handoffs of mobile devices...

In re Tam

Intellectual Property, Trademark, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law
In a challenge to Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, which bars the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) from registering scandalous, immoral, or...