Summary Judgment of Noninfringement
The Court overruled the Plaintiff’s objections to the magistrate judge’s report recommending that summary judgment of noninfringement be granted.
Summary Judgment
Summary Judgment on Limitations & Damages
Nothing like a cigar, a fine whiskey, and a well-crafted order on a request for partial summary judgment on limitations and damages.
Summary Judgment on License/Release Defense
Today’s first Oyster (ruling) is on one of the defendants’ SJ motion on its license & release defense.
Summary Judgment of Noninfringement Recommended
The magistrate judge recommended granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment of noninfringement as to the sole remaining claim in this case.
More Pretrial Rulings on Experts
Prior to holding a hearing on seventeen dispositive motions and 62 disputed limine motions, the Court issued this order resolving seven of the motions, all addressed to expert testimony.
Summary Judgment Granted in Part in Discrimination Case
This is a sex discrimination case in which the magistrate judge recommended that summary judgment be granted in part – a recommendation that the district judge accepted.
Summary judgment on willful infringement
The issue on this motion was whether the plaintiff could go forward with claims of willful infringement. The holding granted the motion, but only on one side of the filing date.
Summary Judgment on Breach of Contract Claims
This order resolves a number of summary judgment motions on breach of contract claims arising out of an employment relationship. The facts are bespoke, so I won’t go through them, but the analysis may be of interest if you’re itching to have a court resolve contract issues.
Motion for Summary Judgment of No Willful Infringement
A somewhat common summary judgment motion late in patent cases is one that seeks summary judgment as to the plaintiff’s claims of willful infringement. This case provides a useful example of a ruling on such a motion which is, at least in part, aptly summarized by Collin’s shirt – “I Can Only Please One Person Each Day – Today’s Not Your Day (Tomorrow doesn’t look good either)”. Behind Collin is one of the Rose windows at Notre Dame de Paris, which we learned earlier today … are still standing.
Motion for Summary Judgment Granted
Patents make it to the market in many different ways. In this case, the inventor/IP owner created a product embodying the IP from the patent and licensed the trademark and distribution rights for the product to another company. Both (now plaintiffs) then entered into an exclusive management agreement with two other companies (now the defendants) to market and sell the product. That agreement also contained a promise by the defendants to buy certain product from the plaintiff. An issue in the case was whether the plaintiffs were obligated to fulfill contracts between the defendants and their distributors including agreements with a distributor affiliated with the defendants.