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Boston Scientific v. Cordis Corp. | No. 2008-1073 |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 1/15/2009
Holding: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reversed a decision against Johnson & Johnson Inc. and its subsidiary Cordis Corp. who were accused of infringing a Boston Scientific Corp. patent. The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware had earlier sustained a jury finding that Boston…
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In re Bilski and Warsaw | No. 2007-1130 |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 10/30/2008
Holding: In a rare full court opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rejected a patent application covering a method for hedging risks in commodities trading for not meeting patent eligibility requirements under Section 101 of the Patent Act. Specifically, the Federal Circuit found that while the…
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Net Moneyin, Inc. v. Verisign, Inc., et al. | No. 2007-1565 |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 10/20/2008
Holding: In this dispute over patents relating to systems for processing credit card transactions over the internet, the Federal Circuit had the occasion to clarify what a reference must show in order to anticipate a claimed invention. The Federal Circuit specifically held that unless a reference discloses within the four corners…
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Minks v. Polaris Industries, Inc. | No. 2007-1490,-1491 |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 10/17/2008
Holding: In this case concerning a patent directed to an electronic governor system for internal combustion engines, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court's reduction of a jury's damages award to Floyd Minks, the inventor of the patent. Citing court precedent and the Reexamination Clause…
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Cohesive Technologies, Inc. v. Waters Corp. | No. 2008-1029, -1030, -1031, -1032, -1059 |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 10/7/2008
Holding: In this infringement suit over patents relating to a process used in drug testing, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the district court erred in issuing a judgment as a matter of law ("JMOL") for plaintiff Cohesive Technologies, Inc. ("Cohesive") on the issue of anticipation,…
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Johns Hopkins University, et al. v. Datascope Corp. | No. 2007-1530 |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 10/2/2008
Holding: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a 2007 jury finding that Datascope Corp. had infringed three patents held by Johns Hopkins University and Arrow International Inc. on a device that fragments blood clots from vascular grafts in hemodialysis patients. The Federal Circuit held that the alleged…
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Osteotech, Inc. v. Regeneration Technologies, Inc. | No. 3:06-cv-04249-FLW |
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey | 9/25/2008
Holding: In this suit over a patent for preparation of bone for transplantation, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled that plaintiff Osteotech, Inc. was not entitled to recover pre-suit damages from defendant Regeneration Technologies, Inc. According to the district court, plaintiff failed to comply with the…
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Impax Laboratories, Inc. v. Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. | No. 2007-1513 |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 10/3/2008
Holding: Aventis' patent relating to the treatment of the Lou Gehrig disease is valid, so determines the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in ruling against generics drug maker Impax Laboratories, Inc. ("Impax"). In its complaint seeking among others to declare as invalid Aventis' patent-at-issue, Impax argued that an…
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Aristocrat Technologies Australia v. International Game Technology | No. 2008-1016 |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 9/22/2008
Holding: Improper revival may not be raised as a defense in an action involving the validity or infringement of a patent, so ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in this case relating to slot machine game and system patents. Defendants-appellees International Game Technology and IGT (collectively, "IGT")…
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Egyptian Goddess, Inc. et al. v. Swisa, Inc., et al. | No. 2006-1562 |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | 9/22/2008
Holding: In an en banc opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the "point of novelty" test should no longer be used in resolving a claim for design patent infringement. Rather, the "ordinary observer" test should be the sole test for determining whether a design patent…
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