Plaintiff professional football players (NFL players) sued National Football League (NFL), twenty-six of its member clubs, and its Commissioner, Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle, alleging that league rule requiring a team acquiring a player whose contract...

Roberta Todd alleged that the oil companies regularly shared detailed information regarding compensation paid to nonunion managerial, professional, and technical (MPT) employees and used this information in setting the salaries at artificially low levels...

Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Endo) is the assignee of three patent applications related to controlled-release tablets containing the opioid narcotic oxymorphone. The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board), in separate appeals, affirmed the rejection...

Plaintiff Westinghouse brought an action against corporate defendant Boyden Brake Company and other individual defendants alleging infringement of a patent for railway train brakes, which increased the rapidity of brake action. The patent in suit, which...

Plaintiff Quantum Corporation's (Quantum) sought a declaratory judgment that the reexamined patent of Defendant Rodime PLC (Rodime) was invalid, unenforceable, and not infringed. Rodime filed an answer and a counterclaim for infringement. Quantum...

OddzOn Products, Inc. (OddzOn) held a design patent for specially-designed football it sold. Just Toys, Inc., Lisco, Inc., and Spalding & Evenflo Companies, Inc. (Just Toys) sold a competing version of the football. OddzOn claimed that Just Toys infringed...

Plaintiff Convertible Top Replacement Co., Inc., (CTR) was the assignee of certain territorial rights in a combination patent for a top-structure for convertible automobiles. The patent covered only the combination of several unpatented components and...

Plaintiff Carr, a lumber yard owner, filed an action to recover an unpaid sum due for sawing logs at the request of defendant Baker, a sawmill owner. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $86.85. The trial court overruled...

The Penn Central Corporation (Penn Central), an appellee in this case, has sought to acquire Colt Industries Inc. (Colt), also an appellee, by merging Colt with PCC Holdings, Inc. (Holdings), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Penn Central. Howard L. Terry...

Appellee Hanson Staple Company brought suit for breach of contract, alleging that Appellant Ole Mexican Foods, Inc. failed to purchase over $300,000 worth of packaging, which had been specially manufactured by Appellee for Appellant. Eventually, the parties...