• January 24, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Contending with patents in financial services

    Before 1998, companies in the financial services industry enjoyed a relatively harmonious existence in a patent-scarce environment. That state of bliss has rapidly disintegrated as the n

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  • Fiskars, Inc. v. Hunt Mfg. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-01
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2000-07-24
    Court: Fed Cir.
    Judge: NEWMAN, RADER, and SCHALL, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Harth et al.
    for defendant: Joseph F. Posillico, Mark D. Simpson, and Gary A. Hecht

    Case Number: 98-1560, -1566

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.Hunt Manufacturing Co. (Hunt) appeals the judgment of the United States District Court for t

  • June 30, 2004 | The Recorder

    The End of Tool Patents? Not Likely

    The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, as well as academia, eagerly awaited a recent Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision in which the court held that the University of Roc

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  • Litton Systems Inc. v. Honeywell Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2001-02-05
    Court: Fed. Cir.
    Judge: MAYER, Chief Judge, RADER and BRYSON, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Roberts, Jr.
    for defendant: Richard G. Taranto

    Case Number: 00-1241

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. MAYER, Chief Judge. Litton Systems, Inc. (Litton) appeals the judgment of the United States District Court for the

  • Transcore, LP v. Electronic Transaction Consultants Corp.

    Publication Date: 2009-04-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2009-04-08
    Court: Fed. Cir.
    Judge: Gajarsa, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for plaintiffs-appellants: William Robinson, Foley & Lardner, Los Angeles.
    for defendant: Attorney for defendant-appellee: John Emerson, Haynes and Boone, Dallas.

    Case Number: 2008-1430

    Published opinionBefore GAJARSA, DYK, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.TransCore, LP and TC License, Ltd. (collectively "TransCore") appeal from a final judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Nort

  • Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. v. Doll

    Publication Date: 2009-04-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2009-04-10
    Court: Fed. Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for plaintiff-appellee: Harold Wegner, Foley & Lardner, Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: Attorney for defendant-appellant: Sarang Damie, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

    Case Number: 2008-1131

    Published opinionBefore RADER, SCHALL, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge, RADER. Opinion concurring-in-part and dissenting-in-part filed by Circuit Judge, SC

  • August 29, 2005 | National Law Journal

    References overshadowed

    On July 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its long-awaited en banc ruling in Phillips v. AWH Corp., 2005 WL 1620331. At issue was the proper meth

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  • November 17, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Offshore Research

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has confirmed that there is no patent infringement liability under 35 U.S.C. 271(g)(1) for the offshore use of a "research tool" patent

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  • March 13, 2003 | National Law Journal

    School Daze

    Should universities be allowed to conduct research on patented inventions? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's recent decision in Madey v. Duke University, 307 F.3

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  • June 11, 2009 | National Law Journal

    More defendants seek to blast out of patent 'rocket docket'

    Intellectual property lawyers are reporting an upswing in motions to transfer patent infringement cases out of the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas in the wake of two U.S. Cou

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