Holding that courts interpreting state law should generally follow that state's intermediate appellate courts unless strong evidence suggests they should not
553 U.S. 617 (2008) Cited 164 times 65 Legal Analyses
Holding that a licensee's sale of component computer parts that substantially embodied method patents held by the patentee was "authorized" by the patentee and exhausted the patentee's patents
Holding that after all claims and counterclaims were decided or withdrawn, the district court acted properly when it “recognized that it could, in its discretion, decide this affirmative defense, but chose not to do so, citing Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(c)”
Holding that the patentee had the burden to come forward with evidence to prove entitlement to an earlier filing date when it was undisputed that a certain reference was invalidating prior art
Holding that “an indefinite article ‘a’ or ‘an’ in patent parlance carries the meaning of ‘one or more’ in open-ended claims containing the transitional phrase comprising” unless a patentee has “ ‘evidence[d] a clear intent’ to limit ‘a’ or ‘an’ to ‘one’ ”
35 U.S.C. § 112 Cited 7,290 times 1032 Legal Analyses
Requiring patent applications to include a "specification" that provides, among other information, a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it
35 U.S.C. § 101 Cited 3,423 times 2203 Legal Analyses
Defining patentable subject matter as "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof."
Del. Code tit. 8 § 253 Cited 123 times 4 Legal Analyses
Permitting a parent company that owns 90% of a subsidiary corporation's outstanding stock to merge with that subsidiary without the approval of the subsidiary's minority stockholders