On March 31, 1991, Kimberly Broussard bought a concert T-shirt at a concert of a pop music group, New Kids on the Block. The shirt was black with white lettering. On the front of the shirt, printed in letters approximately eight inches in height, were...

Plaintiff Zachary Guiles, a 13-year-old student at Williamstown Middle High School, began wearing at school, a T-shirt depicting President George W. Bush in an uncharitable light. Guiles wore the T-shirt on average once a week for two months. Although...

Warner-Jenkinson Co. (Petitioner) and Hilton Davis Chemical Co. (Respondent) both manufacture dyes from which impurities must be removed. Respondent's '746 patent , which issued in 1985, disclosed an improved purification process involving the...

Linde Air Products Co. was the owner of the Jones patent for an electric welding process and for fluxes to be used therewith. The patented composition claimed essentially a combination of alkaline earth metal silicate (i.e., silicates of calcium and magnesium...

Unique Concepts was the exclusive licensee under U.S. Patent 4,108,260 ( '260 patent ), entitled “Fabric Wall Coverings”. Contrary to its title, the ‘260 patent was directed to an assembly of border pieces used to attach a fabric...

The ‘148 patent, issued to Marcus and Neil Mintz as co-inventors, claimed a casing structure for encasing meat products. The '148 specification described prior art meat encasements, which used a netting that allowed meat to bulge between the...

In order to satisfy the needs of the market, the first inventors designed and patented pedals that could be adjusted to change their locations. Named Asano patent, the invention revealed a support structure whereby, when the pedal location was adjusted...

This case involved two consolidated appeals stemming from the validity of subject patents in light of the Patent Act of 1952. In Graham v. John Deere Co., Graham sued for infringement of a patent, consisting of a combination of old mechanical elements...

Becton, Dickinson and Co. ("Becton") sued Therasense, Inc. (now Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc.) and Abbott Laboratories (collectively, "Abbott") in U.S. district court in Massachusetts, seeking a judgment declaring that blood glucose test...

In 2003, petitioners (collectively, “SCA”) notified respondents (collectively, “First Quality”) that their adult incontinence products infringed an SCA patent. First Quality responded that its own patent antedated SCA's patent...