(U.S.S.C., Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Patent) In a patent application seeking protection for a claimed invention explaining how commodities buyers and sellers in the energy market could protect, or hedge, against the risk of price changes, the denial of the application is affirmed where: 1) the machine-or-transformation test is not the sole test for patent [...]
(U.S.S.C., Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Patent) In a patent application seeking protection for a claimed invention explaining how commodities buyers and sellers in the energy market could protect, or hedge, against the risk of price changes, the denial of the application is affirmed where: 1) the machine-or-transformation test is not the sole test for patent [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Patent) In a suit for patent infringement, related to computerized methods for administering variable annuity plans, district court’s denial of defendants’ motion for summary judgment as a matter of law that it does not infringe the claims at issue of the ‘201 patent is reversed and remanded where: [...]
(U.S. D.C. Cir., Administrative Law, Copyright, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Media Law) In the Recording Industry Association of America’s petition for review of the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision instituting a 1.5 percent per month late fee for late royalty payments, and implementing a penny-rate royalty structure for cell phone ringtones (under which copyright owners received [...]
(U.S. 10th Cir., Constitutional Law, Copyright, Intellectual Property, International Law) In an action challenging the constitutionality of Section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), which granted copyright protection to various foreign works that were previously in the public domain in the U.S., summary judgment for plaintiffs is reversed where: 1) the government’s interest [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Intellectual Property, Patent) In a patent infringement suit by Encyclopedia Britannica against various defendants, involving patents relating to a multimedia database search system for retrieving textual and graphical information, district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants in declaring the patents invalid as anticipated by foreign patent application is affirmed [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, Intellectual Property, Patent) In a patent infringement suit against defendant and its two employees, related to patents involving technology for automated duplication of compact discs, district court’s judgment is affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded where: 1) district court’s denial of defendants’ Rule 59(a) motion [...]
(U.S. 2d Cir., Civil Procedure, Copyright, Intellectual Property) In a copyright infringement action in which the district court dismissed the action for lack of personal jurisdiction, the Second Circuit certifies the following question to the New York Court of Appeals: In copyright infringement cases, is the situs of injury for purposes of determining long-arm [...]
(U.S. 11th Cir., Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Intellectual Property, Manufacturing, Patent, Remedies) In a malicious prosecution suit based on an underlying, allegedly meritless patent infringement action, partial judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where: 1) sufficient evidence supported the jury’s conclusions that Dow filed the patent infringement suit without the requisite [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Attorney’s Fees, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Sanctions) In a patent infringement suit, related to patents for disclosing a magnetic snap fastener commonly used in women’s handbags, judgment of the district court is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) the district court was correct in holding the [...]