Description | Date | Docket # |
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Quidel Corporation v. Super. CtCalifornia Court of Appeal
Patent, Contracts
Granted writ of mandate and directed trial court to vacate order granting summary adjudication motion. The appeals court held that the trial court’s...
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08/29/2019 | D075217 |
Return Mail, Inc. v. Postal ServiceUnited States Supreme Court
Intellectual Property, Patent
Held that the U.S. Postal Service was barred here from challenging a private company's patent for a method for processing mail. Because federal...
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06/10/2019 | 17–1594 |
Matlin v. Spin Master Corp.United States Seventh Circuit
Civil Procedure, Patent
Affirmed the dismissal of a commercial dispute for lack of personal jurisdiction over the defendant companies, which lacked sufficient contacts with...
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04/22/2019 | 18-2868 |
Xitronix Corp. v. KLA-Tencor Corp.United States Fifth Circuit
Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Patent
The Fifth Circuit transferred a case back to the Federal Circuit, from which it had been transferred. The two circuits disagreed about which one was...
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02/15/2019 | 18-50114 |
ABS Global, Inc. v. Inguran, LLCUnited States Seventh Circuit
Agriculture, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Patent
In a dispute between two companies in the agriculture-related biotechnology field, affirmed in part and reversed in part a judgment after a jury...
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01/29/2019 | 17‐1873 |
Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.United States Supreme Court
Intellectual Property, Drugs & Biotech, Patent
Held that an inventor's sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can qualify as prior art for...
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01/22/2019 | 17–1229 |
Soarus LLC v. Bolson Materials International Corp.United States Seventh Circuit
Contracts, Trade Secrets, Patent
Held that a company did not violate a nondisclosure agreement by including particular information in a patent application for a 3D printing process....
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10/01/2018 | 18-1144 |
ParkerVision, Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc.United States Federal Circuit
Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirmed that some, but not all, claims in a telecommunications patent were unpatentable as obvious. Finding no error, the Federal Circuit affirmed...
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09/13/2018 | 17-2012 |
Nobel Biocare Services AG v. Instradent USA, Inc.United States Federal Circuit
Intellectual Property, Patent
A company appealed from the determination in an inter partes review that certain claims of its patent directed to dental implants were unpatentable....
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09/13/2018 | 17-2256 |
Orexo AB v. Actavis Elizabeth LLCUnited States Federal Circuit
Intellectual Property, Patent
Reversed a judgment that a patent for a pharmaceutical product was invalid on the ground of obviousness. The Federal Circuit concluded that...
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09/10/2018 | 17-1333 |