Celotex Corp. v. Catrett
477 U.S. 317 (1986) Cited 216,014 times 40 Legal AnalysesHolding that a movant's summary judgment motion should be granted "against a [nonmovant] who fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party's case, and on which that party will bear the burden of proof at trial"
Resqnet.com, Inc. v. Lansa, Inc.
594 F.3d 860 (Fed. Cir. 2010) Cited 298 times 6 Legal AnalysesHolding that evidence of royalty rates from licenses without a relationship to the claimed invention could not form the basis of a reasonable royalty calculation
Schumer v. Laboratory Computer Systems
308 F.3d 1304 (Fed. Cir. 2002) Cited 254 timesHolding that the preambles at issue — "point of origin," "angle of rotation," and "scale" — did not limit the scope of the digitizer invention but simply described features that necessarily exit in any coordinate system for a digitizer
B. B. Naturverpackungen v. Biocorp
249 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Cir. 2001) Cited 147 timesHolding district court did not err by declining to construe the term "melting" as it did "not appear to have required construction, or to depart from its ordinary meaning"
Typeright Keyboard v. Microsoft Corp.
374 F.3d 1151 (Fed. Cir. 2004) Cited 107 times 1 Legal AnalysesHolding that in some circumstances, summary judgment may be inappropriate when the credibility of an affiant is drawn into question
Aero Products v. Intex Recreation
466 F.3d 1000 (Fed. Cir. 2006) Cited 68 timesHolding that plaintiff who prevailed on patent infringement and Lanham Act claims arising from same operative facts, i.e., infringement of patent, could not have double recovery of damages
SRI International, Inc. v. Internet Security Systems, Inc.
511 F.3d 1186 (Fed. Cir. 2008) Cited 53 times 10 Legal AnalysesHolding that paper on FTP website, while publicly available, was not publicly accessible because it was “not catalogued or indexed in a meaningful way”
Finjan, Inc. v. Sophos Inc.
Case No. 14-cv-01197-WHO (N.D. Cal. May. 24, 2016) Cited 7 times 1 Legal AnalysesAdopting an approach “allowing previously undisclosed references to be used as background material, so long as they are not asserted as invalidating prior art references”
Resqnet.com, Inc. v. Lansa, Inc.
533 F. Supp. 2d 397 (S.D.N.Y. 2008) Cited 14 timesFinding that indirect infringement can be proven by circumstantial evidence such as dissemination of instructions
Rubin ex rel. National Labor Relations Board v. Vista Del Sol Health Services, Inc.
80 F. Supp. 3d 1058 (C.D. Cal. 2015) Cited 6 timesCase No. CV 14–09534 MMM FFMx. 01-21-2015 Mori RUBIN, regional director of Region 31 of the National Labor Relations Board, for and on behalf of the NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, v. VISTA DEL SOL HEALTH SERVICES, INC., d/b/a Vista Del Sol Healthcare, Respondent. Brian Dean Gee, Joanna F. Silverman, Simone Pang Gancayco, National Labor Relations Board, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner. Yolanda Flores–Burt, Yolanda Flores–Burt Law Offices, Santa Ana, CA, for Respondent. MARGARET M. MORROW
Rule 56 - Summary Judgment
Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 Cited 328,220 times 158 Legal AnalysesHolding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit
Rule 5 - Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers
Fed. R. Civ. P. 5 Cited 21,914 times 16 Legal AnalysesAllowing service by filing papers with the court's electronic-filing system
Rule 801 - Definitions That Apply to This Article; Exclusions from Hearsay
Fed. R. Evid. 801 Cited 19,064 times 75 Legal AnalysesHolding that such a statement must merely be made by the party and offered against that party
Section 282 - Presumption of validity; defenses
35 U.S.C. § 282 Cited 3,892 times 132 Legal AnalysesGranting a presumption of validity to patents