2016 Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 501 - 840 of 840
Date: May 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2027
Date: May 2, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1288
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, the Department of Commerce investigated imports of “certain activated carbon” from China by the largest volume exporters, Jacobi and CCT. Commerce determined that Huahui and Cherishmet and Shanxi were entitled…
Date: April 29, 2016
Docket Number: 16-105
Justia Opinion Summary: Heartland, an LLC organized and existing under Indiana law is headquartered in Indiana. Kraft, organized and existing under Delaware law, has its principal place of business in Illinois. Kraft filed suit in the U.S.…
Date: April 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5069
Justia Opinion Summary: Under the 1887 General Allotment Act and the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, the U.S. is the trustee of Indian allotment land. A 1996 class action, filed on behalf of 300,000 Native Americans, alleged that the…
Date: April 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1510
Date: April 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1500
Justia Opinion Summary: Mankes’s patent claims methods for managing a reservation system that divides inventory between a local server and a remote Internet server. Mankes sued Vivid Seats and Fandango, alleging infringement by their…
Date: April 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1856
Date: April 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1873
Date: April 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7069
Justia Opinion Summary: Sneed, who served on active duty 1964-1968, suffered service-connected disabilities. In 2001, Sneed suffered a spinal cord contusion from a fall, leaving him quadriplegic. In 2003, he died of smoke inhalation while…
Date: April 21, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1161
Justia Opinion Summary: In antidumping proceedings involving nonmarket economy countries, such as China, the Tariff Act requires the Department of Commerce to calculate normal value of the subject merchandise based on surrogate values offered…
Date: April 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1553
Justia Opinion Summary: Coleman sells an array of products, including personal flotation devices and owns the D714 patent, which claims “[t]he ornamental design for a personal flotation device” with two arm bands connected to a torso piece. The…
Date: April 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1562
Justia Opinion Summary: The patent, titled “Man Machine Interface via Display Peripheral” is directed to a remote control device for making selections on television or computer screens. Claim 1 requires that the device be “adapted to be held by…
Date: April 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1079
Date: April 12, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1716
Date: April 8, 2016
Docket Number: 14-3146
Justia Opinion Summary: Miller served on active duty, 2003-2007, and has a VA disability rating of 60 percent. Since 2008, Miller has been employed as an FDIC Economic Analyst. He was hired at the GS-9 level and has risen to the GS-12 level. In…
Date: April 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1202
Justia Opinion Summary: GTG’s 179 patent claims methods of analyzing sequences of genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) for decoding genetic variations. The Federal Circuit affirmed dismissal of GTG’s infringement suit, finding certain claims…
Date: April 7, 2016
Docket Number: 14-7124
Justia Opinion Summary: Dover served in the Navy, 1956-1960, and, in 1968, filed a claim for service-connected disability benefits. His claim for a hand injury was denied; he did not appeal. In 2004, the VA regional office (RO) denied Dover's…
Date: April 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1079
Justia Opinion Summary: Rembrandt sued, alleging that JJVC’s Acuvue Advance® and Oasys® contact lenses infringed Rembrandt’s patent. Rembrandt relied on expert testimony from Dr. Beebe, who presented test results, to prove that the accused…
Date: April 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7021
Justia Opinion Summary: Veterans’ Groups challenged regulations issued in 2014 by the Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to its notice-and-comment rulemaking authority. The Final Rule amended the VA’s adjudication and appellate regulations…
Date: April 6, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5072
Justia Opinion Summary: Eilise was born in 1996 and had problems with gross motor skills and language development. After therapy, Eilise showed dramatic improvement. In 2001, Eilise received three vaccinations, including her second dose of the…
Date: April 5, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1562
Justia Opinion Summary: Cardpool sued for infringement of its patent entitled “System and Method for Brand Name Gift Card Exchange.” Plastic Jungle’s defenses were obviousness, 35 U.S.C. 103, and that the claimed subject matter was…
Date: April 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1298
Justia Opinion Summary: In the 1990s, AT&T obtained patents covering the transfer of packetized voice traffic between cellular base stations and switching centers. In 1996, AT&T assigned the patents to Lucent, which later assigned them to…
Date: April 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1362
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2001, U.S. producers filed an antidumping petition against imports of steel wire rod of at least 5.00 mm diameter,stating “[m]ost of the industrial quality wire rod is produced and sold in 7/32 inch (5.5 mm)…
Date: April 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1427
Justia Opinion Summary: MPHJ’s 381 patent, entitled “Distributed Computer Architecture and Process for Virtual Copying,” issued in 2004 and discloses a method and system that “extend[] the notion of copying . . . to a process that involves…
Date: April 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1585
Justia Opinion Summary: Pride Mobility and Permobil compete for sales of power wheelchairs. Pride’s 598 and 343 patents disclose wheelchairs that raise their front wheels (called caster wheels) in response to torque from the chairs’ motors,…
Date: April 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3083
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2013, Canava, a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, was indicted on felony counts and pleaded guilty to “Unlawful Imprisonment by Strangulation, Domestic Violence, a class six undesignated offense.” Judgment was entered for the…
Date: April 4, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5094
Justia Opinion Summary: The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 authorized the Department of Energy (DOE) to contract with power utilities for a planned national nuclear waste disposal system, 42 U.S.C. 10222. Utilities were to pay into a Nuclear…
Date: April 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1140
Justia Opinion Summary: GeoTag’s patent claims systems and methods of searching online information within a geographically and topically organized database. It describes a preferred embodiment that organizes websites and files within a…
Date: April 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1251
Justia Opinion Summary: SimpleAir filed suit against Google in 2011, alleging that Google’s Cloud Messenger and Cloud to Device Messenger services its 914 patent. A jury determined none of the asserted claims were invalid, and that Google’s…
Date: March 31, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1856
Justia Opinion Summary: Romag sells patented magnetic snap fasteners under its registered trademark. Fossil designs, markets, and distributes fashion accessories, including small leather goods, manufactured by independent businesses. In 2002,…
Date: March 31, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1199
Justia Opinion Summary: Clare sued Chrysler for infringement, based on Chrysler’s RamBox pickup truck storage system. RamBox is plainly visible and is stamped ‘RAMBOX’ in large lettering. Clare’s patents purport to add storage “without altering…
Date: March 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5151
Justia Opinion Summary: SUFI invested money to build and operate telephone systems at Air Force bases and was to earn returns for 15 years from per-call charges, to be shared with the Air Force. The Air Force breached the contract by allowing…
Date: March 28, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1617
Date: March 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1728
Date: March 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1743
Date: March 23, 2016
Docket Number: 14-5084
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, Kansas landowners sued, alleging that the government had taken their land without compensation by conversion of a rail corridor to a trail under the National Trail Systems Act, 16 U.S.C. 1247(d). The Claims…
Date: March 23, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1116
Justia Opinion Summary: ACS's patent relates to “creels” for supplying yarn and other stranded materials to a manufacturing process. ACS sued Shaw for infringement, but voluntarily dismissed the suit without prejudice. Within one year of…
Date: March 23, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1370
Justia Opinion Summary: MAG Aerospace alleged that B/E Aerospace infringed its patents for quick-repair vacuum toilets, such as those commonly found on commercial aircrafts. The district court granted summary judgment of noninfringement on all…
Date: March 22, 2016
Docket Number: 16-1091
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1989, Hicks, a Secretary at Maxwell Air Force Base, was removed from her position for failure to request leave in accordance with proper procedures and being absent without official leave. Following an appeal, Hicks’…
Date: March 21, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1365
Justia Opinion Summary: Cree’s 175 patent, filed in 1996, is entitled “Solid State White Light Emitter and Display Using Same.” The claims at issue are directed to the production of white light through the “down-conversion” of blue light from…
Date: March 18, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1456
Justia Opinion Summary: In consolidated cases, patent-holder plaintiffs market drugs and have patents in the FDA’s Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations publication (Orange Book), 21 U.S.C. 355(b)(1). Mylan filed…
Date: March 18, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1588
Date: March 15, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1513
Justia Opinion Summary: Acceleron’s 021 patent discloses a computer network appliance containing a number of hot-swappable components, meaning that those components can be removed and replaced without turning off or resetting the computer…
Date: March 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1375
Justia Opinion Summary: Halo, a Hong Kong company that designs and sells high-end modern furniture, owns two U.S. design patents, 13 U.S. copyrights, and one U.S. common law trademark, all relating to its furniture designs. Halo’s common law…
Date: March 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1608
Date: March 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1502
Justia Opinion Summary: Two appeals involved U.S. Patent No. 6,349,291, which named Samir Varma as the inventor and was owned by InvestPic LLC (collectively, Varma). The ’291 patent stated that many “conventional financial information sites” on…
Date: March 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1664
Justia Opinion Summary: Applicants Ray and Amanda Tears Smith appealed a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board which affirmed the rejection of claims 1–18 of U.S. Patent Application No. 12/912,410 for claiming patent-ineligible…
Date: March 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3067
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Louise Klees-Wallace was employed as an Attorney-Advisor in the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). In May 2011, the FCC proposed removing Klees-Wallace from employment due…
Date: March 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5034
Justia Opinion Summary: The High Line is an elevated “linear park” in New York City that runs along the west side of Manhattan from Gansevoort Street to 34th Street. The park, used for walking, jogging, and other recreational purposes, occupied…
Date: March 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1548
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants Ulf Bamberg, Peter Kummer, and Ilona Stiburek (collectively, "Bamberg") appealed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s consolidated interference proceeding decision refusing to allow their claims to four patent…
Date: March 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7051
Justia Opinion Summary: Karen Dixon, recently substituted as appellant for her deceased husband Donald, and appealed a Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Veterans Court) decision dismissing her appeal based on a nonjurisdictional timeliness…
Date: March 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7017
Justia Opinion Summary: Wade Thompson appealed a Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims' judgment which affirmed a decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals denying Thompson a disability rating in excess of 20% for degenerative disc disease of…
Date: March 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7076
Justia Opinion Summary: Maurice Sullivan appealed a Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims' judgment which affirmed a decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals conclusion that the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) had satisfied its duty to…
Date: March 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-145
Justia Opinion Summary: Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada, owns patents directed to Attentive User Interfaces, which allow devices to change their behavior based on the attentiveness of a user—for example, pausing or starting a video based…
Date: March 3, 2016
Docket Number: 14-7115
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, one in five female veterans and one in 100 male veterans reported that they experienced sexual abuse in the military, and an estimated 26,000 service members “experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact.”…
Date: March 2, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1509
Justia Opinion Summary: JBLU does business as C’est Toi Jeans USA. In 2010, JBLU imported jeans manufactured in China, embroidered with “C’est Toi Jeans USA,” “CT Jeans USA,” or “C’est Toi Jeans Los Angeles” in various fonts. JBLU filed…
Date: March 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1072
Justia Opinion Summary: Avid’s patent is directed to a “system for decompressing consecutive streams of compressed video data to provide a continuous, uninterrupted decompressed video data output stream.” Many computers store video in a…
Date: March 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1297
Justia Opinion Summary: ltimatePointer’s patent, entitled “Easily Deployable Interactive Direct-Pointing System and Presentation Control System and Calibration Method Therefor,” describes a handheld pointing device that can be used to control…
Date: March 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1391
Justia Opinion Summary: The Blue Calypso Patents are all related and describe a peer-to-peer advertising system that uses mobile communication devices. At the request of Groupon, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted Covered Business…
Date: March 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7020
Justia Opinion Summary: Bozeman served in the Army, 1967-1970, including one year in Vietnam. In 1993, Bozeman sought disability benefits after substance abuse treatment at a VA Medical Center. The VA awarded him service-connected benefits for…
Date: March 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7022
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1998, Dickens filed a claim for PTSD caused by in-service events, stating that he received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star in connection with these events. His file was never located despite extensive searching.…
Date: February 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1237
Justia Opinion Summary: Eon’s patents relate to a two-way interactive communication network system for enabling communications between local subscribers and a base station and describe various contexts in which the described networks might be…
Date: February 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1671
Justia Opinion Summary: The patents teach improved techniques for making artificial candles flicker like real candles and were developed for the DIsneyland “Haunted Mansion.” In 2008, Disney granted Candella a worldwide license to practice the…
Date: February 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3066
Justia Opinion Summary: Agent Parkinson, of the FBI’s Sacramento field office, was the leader of a special operations group, tasked with relocating a previously compromised undercover facility. In 2006, the FBI leased a facility from Rodda, who…
Date: February 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1171
Justia Opinion Summary: Apple alleged infringement of five patents that cover various aspects of the operation of smartphones. The district court awarded Apple $119,625,000 in damages and ongoing royalties for infringement of three patents. The…
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1629
Justia Opinion Summary: Optical character recognition (OCR) systems analyze characters in a scanned image using various techniques. Template matching involves comparing a character in the digital image with templates of known characters. If…
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1045
Justia Opinion Summary: Fellowes obtained the 468 patent, claiming a shredder that prevents paper jams using a combination of a presence sensor that detects whether paper is present in the feed and a thickness sensor that detects whether the…
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-1361, 15-1364
Justia Opinion Summary: A coaxial cable has an inner electrical conductor (signal) and an outer electrical conductor (ground). Poor or intermittent connections on either conductor can result in noise or non-functionality. The 060 patent…
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1364
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 14-5082
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1996, Zoltek sued, alleging that the process used to produce carbon fiber sheet materials for the B-2 Bomber and the F-22 Fighter Plane, with the consent of the Air Force and Navy, infringed its patent. The Federal…
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1132
Justia Opinion Summary: OWW owns patents directed to cushioning devices that fit over the residual stumps of amputated limbs to make the use of prosthetics more comfortable. OWW has asserted its patents against Alps in several actions,…
Date: February 16, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1846
Justia Opinion Summary: Binzel, which manufactures welding equipment, owns the German DE 934 patent, filed in 1997, and the U.S. 406 patent, issued in 2002, which claims priority to the German application, for a method of manufacturing a…
Date: February 16, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3042
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, McMillan a GS-13 Criminal Investigator with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and an officer in the Army Reserves. was assigned to the Lima, Peru DEA Office. His tour at Lima was to expire in 2010, but he…
Date: February 12, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1617
Justia Opinion Summary: Lexmark makes and sells printer toner cartridges, for which it holds patents. Lexmark buyers may purchase a “Regular Cartridge” at full price, not subject to any terms restricting reuse or resale of the cartridge, or may…
Date: February 12, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3073
Justia Opinion Summary: Hayden, a member of the Air Force Reserves, has worked as a protocol specialist at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base since 2002. The Base is geographically divided into Areas A and B: each has a protocol office. Hayden…
Date: February 11, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1719
Justia Opinion Summary: Nike’s 011 patent, entitled “Article of footwear having a textile upper,” relates to the “upper” component, which has the general shape of a foot and forms a void for receiving the foot that is accessed using the ankle…
Date: February 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1632
Date: February 10, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1646
Justia Opinion Summary: 3M and TransWeb manufacture respirator filters, consisting of “nonwoven fibrous webs.” 3M sued Transweb for infringement of several patents. TransWeb sought a declaratory judgment of invalidity and non-infringement. A…
Date: February 10, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1732
Justia Opinion Summary: The patent focuses on methods and apparatuses for improving computer hard drives by reducing acoustic noise and vibrations. The Federal Circuit previously reversed a summary judgment ruling that no accused products met…
Date: February 10, 2016
Docket Numbers: 15-1183, 14-1516
Justia Opinion Summary: Synopsys filed suit under the Administrative Procedure Act, seeking to invalidate the Patent and Trademark Office’s regulation that allows the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to institute inter partes review on “all or…
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1428
Justia Opinion Summary: Rosebud fsued Adobe for infringing the 760 patent in 2010. The suit was dismissed in 2010. Rosebud sued Adobe for infringing the 699 patent in 2012; the suit that was dismissed in 2014, two weeks after Rosebud sued Adobe…
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1552
Date: February 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1488
Date: February 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1722
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1504
Justia Opinion Summary: AngioScore sells angioplasty balloon catheters (AngioSculpt), designed to open arterial blockages. Three AngioScore patents each list three inventors, but none lists Lotan as an inventor. TriReme is a competitor of…
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1631
Justia Opinion Summary: Samuel’s 575 patent, filed in 1997, claims inventions in the field of intraluminal stent technology. One type of intraluminal stent is a vascular stent. Vascular stents are used to treat medical conditions wherein a…
Date: February 3, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1726
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2004-2005, Ford imported Jaguar-brand cars from the UK into the U.S. and deposited estimated duty payments. Ford later concluded that its estimates had been too high and filed nine reconciliation entries, seeking a…
Date: February 3, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1776
Date: February 2, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1146
Justia Opinion Summary: Columbia’s six patents involve applying data analytics techniques to computer security to detect and block malware. Columbia sued Symantec, alleging infringement. Based on the district court’s claim constructions, the…
Date: February 1, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1294
Justia Opinion Summary: Oxycodone hydrochloride—the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in OxyContin®—is an opioid analgesic used to treat moderate to severe pain. In 2014 the FDA became concerned about 14-hydroxycodeinone, which belongs to…
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1123
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1246
Justia Opinion Summary: Avid asserted two patents against Harmonic; both concern data storage systems that allow users to store and retrieve large files such as movies. On one of two claim elements that were the focus of the dispute at trial,…
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1280
Justia Opinion Summary: Waters’ patent relates to systems that use highly compressed gas, compressible liquid, or supercritical fluid. In liquid chromatography. The patent is directed to using a pump as a pressure source for supercritical fluid…
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1331
Justia Opinion Summary: Akzo’s patent is directed to an extrusion process that generates low viscosity aqueous polymer dispersions. To achieve uniform distribution of the polymer in the aqueous medium, the specification notes that “the mixture…
Date: January 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1265
Justia Opinion Summary: In May 2003, Wyeth filed the 894 Patent Application, claiming a pharmacological method for cancer treatment. In July 2003, the PTO mailed a Notice to File Missing Parts. Wyeth filed the missing parts in December 2003.…
Date: January 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1275
Justia Opinion Summary: Lumen’s 073 patent is directed to facilitating multilateral decision-making by matching parties, using preference data from two classes of parties. FTB operates a search website with a comparison feature, “AssistMe,”…
Date: January 20, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1415
Justia Opinion Summary: MG’s patents relate to “financial transactions including a method for a borrower to evaluate and/or obtain financing.” MG sued for infringement. Defendants claimed that the patents failed to claim patent-eligible subject…
Date: January 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1054
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2002, the Department of Commerce published notice of an antidumping duty order covering polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET Film) from Taiwan, Commerce initiated administrative review in 2010,…
Date: January 15, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3032
Justia Opinion Summary: Muller, an employee of the U.S. Government Printing Office, is a union member. The union and GPO are signatories to a multi-party Master Labor Management Agreement, which creates a negotiated grievance procedure for GPO…
Date: January 14, 2016
Docket Number: 14-5150
Justia Opinion Summary: In the 1970s, the Department of the Interior’s Fish and WildlifeService began entering into cooperative farming agreements with farmers to manage public lands in the National Wildlife Refuge System for the conservation…
Date: January 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3072
Justia Opinion Summary: International Boundary and Water Commissioner Ruth hired McCarthy as an attorney in 2009. Within months, McCarthy had prepared four legal memoranda challenging Commission activities as “gross mismanagement,” contrary to…
Date: January 13, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1771
Justia Opinion Summary: Ethicon’s patent is directed to a surgical device used to staple, secure, and seal tissue that has been incised. As is commonly done during endoscopic procedures, a surgeon will insert the device into the patient and…
Date: January 13, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7024
Justia Opinion Summary: Before enactment of the 2008 Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act, if a veteran seeking DVA benefits died while his claim was pending, the veteran’s survivor could not take the place of the veteran and continue prosecuting…
Date: January 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1408
Date: January 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1409
Date: January 8, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1437
Justia Opinion Summary: Wi-LAN’s 802 patent concerns a wireless data communication technique called “MultiCode Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum” (MC-DSSS). WiLAN asserts that the patented technique is embodied in several modern wireless…
Date: January 8, 2016
Docket Number: 14-3188
Justia Opinion Summary: Reddick was employed as an FDIC “Investigation Specialist” by an initial two-year term appointment, set to expire in September 2012. In April 2012, the FDIC offered him an extension of the initial term for an additional…
Date: January 8, 2016
Docket Number: 14-5106
Justia Opinion Summary: Landowners filed a class action suit challenging the federal Surface Transportation Board’s approval of King County using a Burlington Northern Railroad corridor as a public trail, pursuant the National Trails Systems…
Date: January 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1272
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, Urbanski filed the 614 application, entitled “Protein and Fiber Hydrolysates” and is directed to a method of enzymatic hydrolysis of soy fiber, such that the product has a reduced water holding capacity suitable…
Date: January 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5058
Justia Opinion Summary: GA entered into a blanket purchase agreement (BPA 218), with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in June 2011, to furnish trained service dogs for disabled veterans. A year later, the contracting officer sent an…
Date: January 7, 2016
Docket Number: 14-7130
Justia Opinion Summary: Cogburn served in the Army, 1968-1971, including 12 months in Vietnam. In 1974, Cogburn sought VA disability compensation and pension benefits based on a severe nervous condition. A 1975 denial of his pension claim did…
Date: January 6, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1581
Justia Opinion Summary: Ford imported automotive goods and paid duties. Ford later claimed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) preference on those imports and sought a refund of duties under 19 U.S.C. 1520(d). The parties relied on a…
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