Defendant construction company stored a large amount of dynamite in a hut located close to residences and businesses. When the dynamite accidentally exploded, plaintiff, nearby resident, sustained injuries to her person, property and business. The other...

Petitioner Festo Corporation owned two patents for an improved magnetic rodless cylinder, which was a piston-driven device that relied on magnets to move objects in a conveying system. During the patent prosecution proceedings, the application for the...

Appellant, a corporation on whose behalf respondent stockholders sued respondent officers for misconduct, argued that it was not responsible for the stockholders' fees and costs because no statute authorized such an award, and no common fund existed...

Plaintiff former girlfriend sought review of a decision of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, which dismissed her complaint against defendant former boyfriend. The complaint sought compensation for invasion of privacy...

By: Ethan Horwitz , Carlton Fields. TODAY, BOTH PATENT OWNERS AND ACCUSED INFRINGERS have multiple choices of venues in which to litigate the validity of a patent. There is the historic option of a patent infringement case in the federal courts. Increasingly...

Plaintiff graduate student was hired as a team manager of the university’s football team. It was alleged that as soon as plaintiff began her term as manager, the players began to act in a way that made plaintiff feel uncomfortable, i.e., players...

The landowners filed a petition for a judgment declaring them as the sole owners of a tract of land against another who claimed that he had title. The trial court's held that a call in warranty could not go indiscriminately against any prior vendor...

Thaler developed and operated AI systems like DABUS. He sought patent protection for two of DABUS’ putative inventions. However, the PTO deemed the applications incomplete, lacking a valid inventor.

In 1940, the appellee city, lacking funds to acquire a reservoir site asked the donor to donate land for that purpose. An agreement was entered into by the city and the donor, which contained restrictions regarding the use of the land. In 1981, the city...

Takeda Chem. Indus. v. Mylan Labs. United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit December 8, 2008, Decided 2007-1269, 2007-1270 Opinion  [***1220]   [*1383]  Before LOURIE, RADER, and BRYSON,  [**2]  Circuit Judges. Opinion for the court filed...