Ashcroft v. Iqbal

Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable

Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

Holding that a complaint's allegations should "contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' "

Ebay Inc. v. Mercexchange, L. L. C.

Holding that traditional four-factor test applies to injunctions against patent infringement

Associated General Contractors v. Carpenters

Holding that a union lacked standing to sue for injuries passed on to it by intermediaries

Christianson v. Colt Indus. Operating Corp.

Holding that the appeal belonged before the regional circuit because the claims did not arise under patent law

Whitmore v. Arkansas

Holding that a third party does not have "standing to challenge the validity of a death sentence imposed on a capital defendant who has elected to forgo his right of appeal"

Holmes Grp., v. Vornado Air Circulation Sys., Inc.

Holding that "`[l]inguistic consistency'" required that the same "arising under" test be applied to the jurisdictional statute for patent claims, 28 U.S.C. § 1338, as is used for the general federal jurisdiction statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1331

Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n

Holding that for a defendant to recoup attorneys fees under § 706(k) of Title VII, a court must find that the plaintiff litigated his or her claim beyond the point where it became “frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless” or where plaintiff acted in bad faith

Phillips v. AWH Corp.

Holding that "because extrinsic evidence can help educate the court regarding the field of the invention and can help the court determine what a person of ordinary skill in the art would understand claim terms to mean, it is permissible for the district court in its sound discretion to admit and use such evidence"

Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat, Inc.

Holding that mere economic loss does not amount to an antitrust injury under the antitrust laws

Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss

Section 271 - Infringement of patent

Holding that testing is a "use"

Section 15 - Suits by persons injured

Granting private right of action to anyone who has been injured "by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws ..."

Section 2 - Monopolizing trade a felony; penalty

In § 2 cases under the Sherman Act, as in § 7 cases under the Clayton Act (Brown Shoe Co. v. United States, 370 U.S. 294, 325) there may be submarkets that are separate economic entities.

Section 1 - Trusts, etc., in restraint of trade illegal; penalty

Forbidding every "contract, combination . . . or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States"

Section 355 - New drugs

Granting the court discretion to change the date on which an ANDA may be approved if "either party to the action failed to reasonably cooperate in expediting the action"

Section 284 - Damages

Granting "interest and costs as fixed by the court"

Section 331 - Prohibited acts

Prohibiting the sale of adulterated foods

Section 355a - Pediatric studies of drugs

Section 314.53 - Submission of patent information

Referring to "those patents that claim the drug product," and those "patents that claim the drug substance"