• Research Corp. Techs. v. Microsoft Corp.

    Research Corp. Techs. v. Microsoft Corp. United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit December 8, 2010, Decided 2010-1037 Opinion  [***1276]   [*862]  Rader , Chief Judge . Research Corporation Technologies, Inc. ("RCT")  [**2]  initiated...

  • Gorss Motels, Inc. v. Safemark Sys., L.P.

    Gorss Motels, Inc. v. Safemark Sys., L.P. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division April 5, 2018, Decided; April 5, 2018, Filed Case No: 6:16-cv-01638-Orl-31DCI Opinion Order This matter comes before the Court...

  • Bragg v. Linden Research, Inc.

    This case was about virtual property maintained on a virtual world site on the Internet. The owner contended that the operators of the site unlawfully confiscated his virtual property and denied him access to their virtual world. The CEO for the operators...

  • United States v. Van Alstyne

    United States v. Van Alstyne United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit March 9, 2009, Argued and Submitted, Pasadena, California; October 22, 2009, Filed No. 07-50105 Opinion  [*807]  BERZON, Circuit Judge: Lance Van Alstyne appeals his conviction...

  • Toyota Motor Mfg., Ky. v. Williams

    In 1997, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. terminated Ella Williams, citing her poor attendance record. Subsequently, claiming to be disabled from performing her automobile assembly line job by carpal tunnel syndrome and related impairments,...

  • Mazer v. Stein

    This case involves the validity of copyrights obtained by respondents Stein et al. (Stein), a manufacturer, for statuettes of male and female dancing figures made of semivitreous china. The controversy centered around the fact that although copyrighted...

  • Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc.

    Respondent, Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (Prometheus), is the sole and exclusive licensee of the two patents at issue, which concern the use of thiopurine drugs to treat autoimmune diseases. When ingested, the body metabolizes the drugs, producing metabolites...

  • Santillanes v. New Mexico

    Defendant was convicted under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-6-1(C) (Repl. Pamp. 1984) of child abuse involving no death or great bodily injury after he cut his nephew's neck with a knife during an altercation. On appeal, the court affirmed, holding that...

  • Calder v. Bull

    A probate court decreed a will invalid in favor of the plaintiffs, who stood to obtain property through inheritance. However, after that, the state legislature passed a law enabling defendants to obtain a new hearing on the probate court's decree...

  • Halverson v. Halverson

    Defendant former husband appealed from a judgment of the District Court which favored plaintiff former wife in a dispute over the division of the former husband's pension plan benefits in the community property partition following their divorce.