- Buyer of rights to heart-valve repair device met promises to promote device with buyer’s usual “efforts and level of care”.
- Calling computer-security software “malicious” and a “threat” implied facts, not opinions, and therefore could violate Lanham Act.
- Order to “immediately cease” using near copies of trademark online amounted to injunction that lacked findings to support it.
- Ideas for tweaks to patent on device for placing stents and other items in clogging arteries did not make patent obvious over prior art that
- Debut, in reply brief, of ground for deeming car floor-tray patent obvious came too late.
- Under Copyright Act, 2,700 real estate photos in database did not constitute single work—or “compilation”—and use of each photo could support statutory damages award.
- Owners of oil and gas rights in two Wyoming counties showed they could prove relevant antitrust market, one firm’s dominance in that market, and common impact of firm’s anticompetitive leasing scheme on all members of owners’ class.
- First amendment didn’t protect chew toy that looked like a Jack Daniel’s bottle from trademark infringement claim.
- “Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.”
- Elon Musk’s standing on both sides of Tesla’s purchase of SolarCity triggered “entire fairness” test, which Musk met at trial.