LATEST SUMMARIES

CONTRACTS, CORPORATION & ENTERPRISE LAW, EVIDENCE, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PATENT
• Agrizap, Inc. v. Woodstream Corp.

ENTERTAINMENT LAW, GAMING LAW, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MANUFACTURING, PATENT
• Aristocrat Techs. Australia Pty, Ltd. v. Int'l Game Tech.

GOVERNMENT LAW, HEALTH LAW
• Wood v. Peake

LATEST SUMMARIES

CONTRACTS, CORPORATION & ENTERPRISE LAW, EVIDENCE, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PATENT
Agrizap, Inc. v. Woodstream Corp., No. 07-1415
Sufficient evidence supports a jury's finding of fraudulent misrepresentation in favor of an electronic rodent-killing device patent holder where the appellant failed to overcome the jury's finding of sufficient evidence of fraudulent misrepresentation under Pennsylvania's 6-factor test. However, the holder's patent claims are ruled invalid for obviousness where the use of an animal body as a resistive switch to complete a circuit for the generation of an electric charge was already well known in the prior patents. Read more...

ENTERTAINMENT LAW, GAMING LAW, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MANUFACTURING, PATENT
Aristocrat Techs. Australia Pty, Ltd. v. Int'l Game Tech., No. 07-1419
The district court committed no error in its analysis of the means-plus-function limitation in this case involving an electronic slot machine patent when it described the two competing claim constructions proposed by the parties, and made clear that there was virtually no difference between them. Computer-implemented means-plus-function claims require disclosure of a corresponding algorithm, rejecting appellant's contention that no algorithm is necessary. Read more...

GOVERNMENT LAW, HEALTH LAW
Wood v. Peake, No. 07-7174
The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims committed legal error by failing to let a veteran's widow obtain assistance from the VA in obtaining a medical opinion to review and reconcile conflicting medical evidence in the record under the Veterans Claims Assistance Act (38 U.S.C. section 5103A(a)) when reviewing the VA's denial of her request for dependency and indemnity compensation, requiring the case to be vacated and remanded to decide whether or not the lower court's decision was harmless error Read more...