(U.S. Fed. Cir., Intellectual Property, Patent) In an action for patent infringement relating to a design patent for a multi-function carpentry tool that combines a hammer with a stud climbing tool and a crowbar, a district court’s finding of noninfringement is affirmed as the district court correctly construed the claim at issue and correctly determined [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent) In plaintiffs’ suit alleging violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act in the importation and sale of certain lysine feed products made by the methods claimed in their patents relating to improved methods of producing L-lysine with genetically engineered E-Coli bacteria, the International [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Judgment Enforcement, Patent, Remedies) In a patent infringement action against EchoStar, relating to the software component of plaintiff’s patent that allows television users to simultaneously record and play broadcasts using what is commonly known as a digital video recorder (DVR), district court’s decision finding defendants in contempt of [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Judgment Enforcement, Patent, Remedies) In a patent infringement action against EchoStar, relating to the software component of plaintiff’s patent that allows television users to simultaneously record and play broadcasts using what is commonly known as a digital video recorder (DVR), district court’s decision finding defendants in contempt of [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Injury And Tort Law, Intellectual Property, International Law, Patent, Professional Malpractice) In plaintiff’s legal malpractice suit claiming that defendants failed to timely file three patent applications related to a website-search engine, summary judgment in favor of the defendants is affirmed where: 1) the district court [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Intellectual Property, Patent) In a patent infringement suit involving a patent directed to a cooling device designed to mount within the drive bay of a computer, district court’s finding that defendant willfully infringed certain claims of plaintiff’s patent, that certain independent claims were not invalid as obvious, and that certain dependent claims [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Sports Law) In a patent infringement suit involving patents related to memorabilia cards, district court’s conclusion that the patents are invalid for obviousness is affirmed where: 1) defendants have met the burden of showing that it would have been obvious to one skilled in the art to [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Consumer Products, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent) In plaintiff’s action for patent infringement for patents relating to software for displaying the market for a commodity traded in an electronic exchange, judgment of district court is affirmed where: 1) defendant’s infringed the asserted claims of one patent with one accused service product, but [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent) Decision of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Inferences, finding that certain claims of an application directed at technology involving divalent antibody fragments were unpatentable as obvious, is vacated and remanded as the Board’s opinion includes erroneous statements that [...]
(U.S. Fed. Cir., Administrative Law, Consumer Products, Intellectual Property, Patent) In plaintiff’s action for unfair competition under 19 U.S.C. section 337 and patent infringement relating to their patented footwear, the United States International Trade Commission’s judgment is reversed and remanded where: 1) the Commission erred in finding that the prior art taught all of the [...]