LIIBULLETIN-patent

The LII's liibulletin-patent provides summaries of important patent appeals decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court, and more detailed commentary of a subset of those.

The bulletin is available by e-mail as a current awareness service and at this site. Links connect the bulletin summaries with the decisions which are held, in full-text, at the Georgetown Law Center and Emory Law School sites. In addition references to other decisions, the Patent Act and regulations, the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure and other key sources are linked to the cited material.

Bulletin summaries and commentaries are prepared by a special team of liibulletin student editors.

Current liibulletin-patent Listings:

(reverse chronological order)

• U.S. Supreme Court
  • Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. (Nov. 10, 1998)
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • Amazon.com, Inc. v. barnesandnoble.com, Inc. (Feb. 14, 2001)
  • Litton Systems, Inc. v. Honeywell, Inc. (Feb. 5, 2001)
  • Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co. (Nov. 29, 2000)
  • Li Second Family Ltd. Partnership v. Toshiba Corp. (Nov. 8, 2000)
  • Texas Instruments, Inc. v. Tessera, Inc. (Nov. 7, 2000)
  • Yamanouchi Pharm. Co. v. Danbury Pharmacal, Inc. (Nov. 3, 2000)
  • Bottom Line Management, Inc. v. Pan Man, Inc. (Oct. 4, 2000)
  • Southwest Software, Inc. v. Harlequin Inc. (Sept. 18, 2000)
  • Caterpillar, Inc., v. Deere & Co. (Sept. 14, 2000)
  • Upjohn Co. v. MOVA Pharm. Corp. (Sept. 11, 2000)
  • Ecolochem, Inc. v. Southern California Edison (Sept. 7, 2000)
  • SIBIA Neurosciences, Inc. v. Cadus Pharmaceutical Co. (Sept. 6, 2000)
  • PerSeptive Biosys., Inc. v. Pharmacia Biotech., Inc. (Aug. 29, 2000)
  • Rotec Industries, Inc. v. Mitsubishi Corp. (June 13, 2000)
  • Reiffen v. Microsoft Corp. (June 5, 2000)
  • Helifix Ltd. v. Blok-Lok, Ltd. (April 7, 2000)
  • IMS Tech., Inc. v. Haas Automation, Inc. (March 27, 2000)
  • Clearstream Wastewater Sys., Inc. v. Hydro-Action, Inc. (March 27, 2000)
  • Semiconductor Energy Lab. Co. v. Samsung Elecs. (March 2, 2000)
  • Ultra-Tex Surfaces, Inc. v. Hill Bros. Chemical Co. (Feb. 29, 2000)
  • In re Gartside (Feb. 15, 2000)
  • Kraft Goods, Inc. v. Int'l Trading Co. (Feb. 14, 2000)
  • Cortland Line Co. v. Orvis Co. (Feb. 14, 2000)
  • Winner Int'l Royalty Corp. v. Wang (Jan. 27, 2000)
  • Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l. v. J.E.M. Ag Supply, Inc. (Jan. 19, 2000)
  • Vanmoor v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Jan. 10, 2000)
  • Wang v. Am. Online, Inc. (Dec. 17, 2000)
  • Toro Co. v. White Consol. Indus., Inc. (Dec. 10, 1999)
  • Marquip, Inc. v. Fosber America, Inc. (Dec. 6, 1999)
  • Univ. of Colorado Found., Inc. v. Am. Cyanamid Co. (Nov. 19, 1999)
  • Intergraph Corp. v. Intel Corp. (Nov. 5, 1999)
  • Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. United States Gypsum Co. (Nov. 1, 1999)
  • Augustine Medical Inc. v. Progressive Dynamics, Inc. (Oct. 25, 1999)
  • Overhead Door Corp. v. The Chamberlain Group, Inc. (Oct. 13, 1999)
  • Micro Chemical, Inc. v. Great Plains Chemical Co. (Oct. 6, 1999)
  • Enzo Biochem, Inc. v. Calgene, Inc. (Sept. 24, 1999)
  • K-2 Corp. v. Salomon (Sept. 13, 1999)
  • Diversey Lever, Inc. v. Ecolab, Inc. (Sept. 10, 1999)
  • Process Control Corp. v. HydReclaim Corp. (Sept. 7, 1999)
  • Atlas Powder Co. v. IRECO Inc. (Sept. 7, 1999)
  • Robotic Vision Systems, Inc. v. View Engineering, Inc. (Sept. 3, 1999)
  • Merck & Co. v. Mylan Pharmaceutical, Inc. (Sept. 3, 1999)
  • Mitsubishi Electric Corp. v. Ampex Corp. (Aug. 30, 1999)
  • Juicy Whip, Inc. v. Orange Bang, Inc. (Aug. 6, 1999)
  • Elk Corp. of Dallas v. GAF Building Materials Corp. (Feb. 11, 1999)
  • National Recovery Techs, Inc. v. Magnetic Separation Systems, Inc. (Feb. 4, 1999)
  • Engel Indus., Inc. v. Lockformer Co. (Feb. 3, 1999)
  • Mikohn Gaming Corp. v. Acres Gaming, Inc. (Dec. 30, 1998)
  • Laitram Corp. v. NEC Corp. (Dec. 18, 1998)
  • Spectrum Int'l, Inc. v. Sterilite Corp. (Dec. 9, 1998)
  • 3D Systems v. Aarotech Labs. (Nov. 12, 1998)
  • Bai v. L & L Wings, Inc. (Nov. 3, 1998)
  • Anderson v. International Eng'g & Mfg., Inc. (Nov. 2, 1998)
  • In re Dance (Oct. 30, 1998)
  • PPG Industries v. Guardian Industries Corp. (Oct. 1, 1998)
  • DH Technology, Inc. v. Synergystex International, Inc. (Sept. 1, 1998)
  • Cooper v. Goldfarb (Sept. 1, 1998)
  • Akron Polymer Container Corp. v. Exxel Container, Inc. (July 20, 1998)
  • State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group (Jul. 23, 1998)
  • Hyatt v. Boone (June 17, 1998)
  • Chiuminatta Concrete Concepts v. Cardinal Indus. (May 14, 1998)
  • In re Zurko (May 4, 1998)

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