tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2009-03-31:/federal_circuit/26 2013-06-14T16:27:57Z News and information from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, brought to you by FindLaw.com. Movable Type Enterprise 4.38 http://images.findlaw.com/logo/logo_lp_rss.gif tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.40370 2013-06-14T16:25:56Z 2013-06-14T16:27:57Z Aditi Mukherji The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals smacked down an idealistic but unrealistic legal campaign against Monsanto’s biotech patents this week, reports NPR. The organic farmers marched went to court to declare the corporate giant’s patents invalid. According to the farmer’s...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/bamhZ4Tqdlk" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/06/monsanto-said-it-wont-sue-now-it-cant-says-federal-circuit.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.40255 2013-06-07T13:01:08Z 2013-06-07T01:29:14Z Aditi Mukherji According to the Justice Department, the outcome of an Army and KBR lawsuit over the final stages of LOGCAP III , the largest government services contract in U.S. History, may affect many thousands of federal contracts while creating “enormous uncertainty”...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/9hVgpGxn4xc" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/06/army-kbr-contract-dispute-creates-uncertainty-warns-doj.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.40127 2013-05-30T16:05:01Z 2013-05-30T16:10:43Z William Peacock, Esq. http://www.linkedin.com/in/williampeacockesq When Douglas Dynamics was decided last week, it seemed like a snoozer at first. But upon closer reading, there's actually an interesting discussion about injuncitons and what constitutes irreparable injury. DD designed a snowplow that revolutionized the detachable snowplow industry....<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/IKhLyOcpP3E" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/05/snowplows-and-iphones-what-do-they-have-in-common.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.40015 2013-05-22T15:56:14Z 2013-05-23T16:46:46Z William Peacock, Esq. http://www.linkedin.com/in/williampeacockesq Wheelabrator designs, sells, and licenses some process (phosphate-based treatment systems) that keep heavy metals from industrial waste (such as incinerator ash) from leaching into drinking water. Forrester does too. Both have patents on their proprietary methods. Wheelabrator licensed its system...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/ChSw9UYcZf8" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/05/patent-infringement-that-happens-in-taiwan-stays-in-taiwan.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.39874 2013-05-15T19:26:01Z 2013-05-15T19:26:45Z Corey Licht, Esq. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/corey-licht/47/b69/6a9 This week, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals said "game over" to an infringement claim filed against Nintendo. The action was brought by Motiva, an American company that claimed to have beat Nintendo to the technology used in the Wii...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/X9A8eOOedAc" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/05/nintendo-prevails-in-wii-patent-infringement-case.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.39776 2013-05-08T17:56:42Z 2013-05-08T18:07:00Z Corey Licht, Esq. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/corey-licht/47/b69/6a9 Allergan, a specialty pharmaceutical company, has been battling it out in court with fellow pharmaceutical maker Sandoz over the right to sell a generic version of Allergan's popular glaucoma drug, Combigan. Last week, the Federal Circuit reversed a district court's...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/cdJnjLaTwrk" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/05/allergan-wins-out-in-combigan-generics-case.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.39669 2013-05-01T13:01:31Z 2013-04-30T23:11:18Z Robyn Hagan Cain The common refrain these days is that going to law school is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea. There just aren’t any jobs. Perhaps the real issue is not that there aren’t any jobs; it’s that the only jobs...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/fUpUGhgx2ok" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/05/aia-increases-need-for-patent-attorneys-but-not-patent-litigators.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.39611 2013-04-26T18:59:59Z 2013-04-26T18:51:16Z William Peacock, Esq. http://www.linkedin.com/in/williampeacockesq Robert MacLean became a Federal Air Marshal in 2001. In 2003, the Marshals received word of a potential hijacking plot. Unsurprisingly enough, because the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) fails at everything, they botched the response. Because of a budget shortfall,...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/wglD1K9AMks" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/04/whistleblowing-air-marshal-robert-macleans-case-gets-new-life.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.39516 2013-04-19T20:20:26Z 2013-04-19T20:23:18Z Robyn Hagan Cain If you watched “A Different World,” the 80s/90s “Cosby Show” spinoff that followed Denise Huxtable to Hillman College, you’ll remember Dwayne Wayne’s flip-up sunglass/eyeglass combo. (You may also remember future “My Cousin Vinny” star and Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei’s season on...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/vnj3zwsXJmQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/04/magnetic-appeal-collateral-estoppel-bars-aspex-claim.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.39358 2013-04-09T18:58:21Z 2013-04-09T18:05:35Z Robyn Hagan Cain A group of landowners in southern Arizona have been arguing for years that a Rails to Trails plan for a right of way on their property constituted a taking. So far, that litigation has enjoyed two tours through the Federal...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/N78NI6qd37k" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/04/rails-to-trails-challenge-subject-to-accrual-suspension-rule.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.39242 2013-04-02T19:01:25Z 2013-04-02T17:24:58Z Robyn Hagan Cain If you’re hunting for continuing legal education credits — or you just want to learn more about intellectual property law — there are several IP-centric opportunities that you should check out this month: The ABA Intellectual Property Conference, the Robotics...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/tZWvjJH9TPY" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/04/cle-credit-intellectual-property-and-law-conferences.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.39155 2013-03-27T13:01:41Z 2013-03-26T23:11:37Z Robyn Hagan Cain The next time you see a bottle of Crest mouthwash, take a moment to appreciate the angles of the bottle. Particularly the trapezoidal-shaped surface near the top. Crest really cares about that trapezoid, so much that its parent company, Proctor...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/2ZAcVgDQ-lc" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/03/broken-line-boundaries-no-patent-protection-for-crest-bottle.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.39039 2013-03-19T19:10:27Z 2013-03-19T19:10:38Z Robyn Hagan Cain Here at FindLaw, we understand the pressures of being a legal professional - most of us are recovering lawyers - so we want to help by tossing you that preferred life preserver of the legal profession, the short list. Today’s...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/I1YXt-efJOA" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/03/5-things-to-know-about-federal-circuit-judge-richard-taranto.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.38900 2013-03-11T19:10:49Z 2013-03-11T19:10:58Z Robyn Hagan Cain It's not enough to notify a competitor that its design infringes on your patent, and then forget about the claim for years. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that equitable estoppel applies to block a patentee from...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/eAIqc2x-qPw" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/03/equitable-estoppel-dont-just-sit-on-a-patent-infringement-claim.html tag:blogs.findlaw.com,2013:/federal_circuit//26.38789 2013-03-05T20:01:47Z 2013-03-05T20:00:22Z Robyn Hagan Cain Occasionally, we get excited when perusing federal appeals because one of the litigants has a famous name. That excitement has manifested itself in posts about Joe the Plumber and David Bowie. (Not that David Bowie.) So you can imagine our...<br/> <br/> Click through to continue reading this post on FindLaw.com...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FederalCircuit/~4/nQ4HlCk_4ow" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/03/jerry-mcguire-v-us-you-had-me-at-regulatory-taking.html