Hobbs v. John
Concepts and feelings are not copyrightable when they belong to the general scène à faire of the genre.
Area(s) of Law:- Copyright
Wilden Pump and Engineering LLC v. JDA Global LLC
Part numbers are not source identifiers when a prefix is used to differentiate between makers of similar parts
Area(s) of Law:- Trademarks
Brandywine Commun. Tech., Inc. v. T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Where knowledge is an essential element of a patent infringement claim, the defendant must have been aware of the patent's existence before litigation was instigated in order for that element to be satisfied.
Area(s) of Law:- Patents
Winchester Mystery House, LLC v. Global Asylum, Inc.
A trademark claim could be made when an allegedly infringing movie title bares no relation to the film or there was an intent to mislead.
Area(s) of Law:- Trade Secrets
Flo Healthcare Solutions, LLC v. Kappos
To rebut the presumption that a limitation is not a means-plus-function limitation, the patentee must show that the limitation is essentially “devoid of anything that can be construed as structure.”
Area(s) of Law:- Patents
Sempris, LLC v. Watson
Noncompete agreements signed by employees of a company that are later acquired remain valid.
Area(s) of Law:- Trade Secrets
Technology Patents, LLC v. T-Mobile (UK) Ltd.
Doctrine of Equivalents will not broaden claims beyond their explicit terms.
Area(s) of Law:- Patents
Energy Transportation Group, Inc. v. William Demant Holding A/S
Prosecution history estoppel bars the assertion of the doctrine of equivalents when the presumption that a key claim phrase was narrowed to secure the patent in question is not overcome.
Area(s) of Law:- Patents
The Authors Guild v. Hathitrust
Digitizing a book and putting it into a format possible for a print-disabled person to access it is sufficiently transformative for a fair-use defense.
Area(s) of Law:- Copyright
Belkin Intl., Inc. v. Kappos
The Director's determination that prior art does not raise substantial new questions of patentability is final and nonappealable.
Area(s) of Law:- Patents