all - Opinion Summaries

Biosig Instruments, Inc. v. Nautilus, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment for defendant in patent infringement action regarding plaintiff's patent on a heart rate monitor associated with an exercise...

Cariou v. Prince

Intellectual Property, Copyright
Summary judgment for plaintiff in copyright infringement suit is: 1) vacated in part, where the district court applied the incorrect standard to...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Kirtsaeng

Education Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, International Trade, Media Law
On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the "first sale" doctrine provides a defense against a copyright infringement claim based on...

Lazare Kaplan International v. Photoscribe Technologies, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In patent infringement suit, summary judgment of invalidity of plaintiff's patent, related to methods and systems for using lasers to make...

Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. Zenni Optical Inc.

Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court correctly ruled that plaintiff was collaterally stopped from pursuing its infringement suit regarding patents for magnetic clip-on...

K-Tech Telecommunications, Inc. v. Time Warner Cable, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Media Law
In consolidated cases alleging direct patent infringement against defendant Time Warner and defendant DirecTV, involving patents on identifying...

Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In consolidated patent infringement actions by generic pharmaceutical company defendants relating to combined oral contraceptive (COC) products, the...

Biogen Idec, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action involving a drug to treat Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, the District Court's construction of the claim term "anti-CD20...

US v. Cone

Criminal Law & Procedure, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Defendants' various convictions arising out of a scheme to import and resell counterfeit pieces of computer networking equipment are: 1) vacated and...

Spinner v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

Contracts, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
In an "idea submission" suit in which plaintiff alleged defendant ABC used his ideas submitted in 1977 to create and develop the hit television series...