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Intellectual Property

United States Ninth Circuit, 04/11/2011
The Facebook, Inc. v. Connectu, Inc., No. 08-16873
In a dispute arising from the validity of a settlement agreement where plaintiffs claimed that the omission of several stock transfer documents and a lower-than-expected post-settlement disclosure of common stock value rendered settlement agreement uneforceable, judgment of the district court is affirmed where such omissions were an only important term that affects the value of the bargain, and the parties were on equal bargaining footing such that the subsequent discovery of stock value did not make agreement uneforceable. Read more...

United States Federal Circuit, 04/12/2011
McKesson Tech, Inc. v. Epic Systems Corp., No. 2010-1291
In a patent dispute alleging infringement of a patent directed to an electronic method of communication between healthcare providers, summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed because plaintiff is unable to attribute the performance of all the steps of the asserted method claims to a single party. Read more...

United States Federal Circuit, 04/15/2011
In Re Tanaka, No. 2010-1262
In a patent dispute involving whether the submission of a narrower claim in a reissue application that still contains all of the original patent claims presents the type of error correctible by reissue under 35 U.S.C. section 251, order by PTO denying reissue is reversed as contrary to longstanding circuit precedent and stare decisis. Read more...







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