Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Service Co.

Holding "it is beyond dispute that compilations of facts are within the subject matter of copyright" even though "copyright protects only the author's original contributions—not the facts or information conveyed"

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Brothers, Inc.

Holding that fanciful, arbitrary, and suggestive marks are inherently distinctive

Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank

Holding remedy unconstitutional because its scope was incongruous to the scant history of unconstitutional state action

Hill v. Nat'l Collegiate Athletic Ass'n

Holding that students' consent to drug tests as a condition of participating in athletics barred their privacy claims

Lee v. Hanley

Holding that § 340.6 did not bar plaintiff's fee dispute claim that attorney refused to return unearned attorney's fees, because the claim could also be construed as conversion

Pacific Gas Electric Co. v. Bear Stearns Co.

Holding that interference with plaintiff's performance may give rise to a claim for interference with contractual relations if plaintiff's performance is made more costly or more burdensome

C.R. Bard, Inc. v. M3 Systems, Inc.

Holding that a "jury instruction on patent misuse" was overbroad, where it "focused primarily on the charge that [the patent holder] was attempting to enforce the patents against goods known not to be infringing"

Ethicon, Inc. v. U.S. Surgical Corp.

Holding "as a matter of substantive patent law, all co-owners must ordinarily consent to join as plaintiffs in an infringement suit"

Eli Lilly & Co. v. Aradigm Corp.

Holding that, to be an inventor with standing to bring a section 256 claim, the alleged inventor must have "contribute[d] to the conception of the claimed invention."

Burroughs Wellcome Co. v. Barr Labs., Inc.

Holding that a reduction to practice by a third party inures to the benefit of the inventor even without communication of the conception

Section 17200 - Unfair competition defined

Prohibiting unlawful business practices

Section 1125 - False designations of origin, false descriptions, and dilution forbidden

Holding "the person who asserts trade dress protection has the burden of proving that the matter sought to be protected is not functional"

Section 101 - Definitions

Recognizing the United States' adherence to provisions of the Berne Convention of 1886

Section 501 - Infringement of copyright

Granting a cause of action to "[t]he legal or beneficial owner of an exclusive right under a copyright"

Section 1836 - Civil proceedings

Granting district courts original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction over civil actions brought under the DTSA

Section 1839 - Definitions

Recognizing that misappropriation is present where the acquiring entity “knows or has reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means”

Section 530.5 - Unlawful obtaining or use or personal identifying information

Making false sworn statement to induce notarial act affecting title to real property

Section 201 - Ownership of copyright

Providing that copyright in a work "vests initially in the author"

Section 3426 - Title of act

Section 261 - Ownership; assignment

Holding that patent rights are "assignable in law by an instrument in writing"