Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
509 U.S. 579 (1993) Cited 26,767 times 231 Legal AnalysesHolding that a trial judge must ensure that all admitted expert testimony "is not only relevant, but reliable"
Microsoft Corp. v. I4I Limited Partnership
564 U.S. 91 (2011) Cited 1,170 times 18 Legal AnalysesHolding that § 282 ’s presumption of validity in litigation imposes a clear and convincing evidence standard on defendants seeking to prove invalidity
Connell v. Sears, Roebuck Co.
722 F.2d 1542 (Fed. Cir. 1983) Cited 262 timesFinding that the "right to exclude recognized in a patent is the essence of the concept of property"
InTouch Technologies, Inc. v. VGo Communications, Inc.
751 F.3d 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2014) Cited 104 times 3 Legal AnalysesHolding that expert's testimony could not support a finding of obviousness where "testimony primarily consisted of conclusory references to [the expert's] belief that one of ordinary skill in the art could combine these references, not that they would have been motivated to do so"
Ecolochem v. Southern California Edison
227 F.3d 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2000) Cited 147 times 3 Legal AnalysesHolding that a prior-art reference did not anticipate claims 1, 4, and 7-12, but that it did anticipate claim 20
Monarch Knitting Mach. Corp. v. Morat
139 F.3d 877 (Fed. Cir. 1998) Cited 141 times 1 Legal AnalysesFinding existence of genuine dispute of material fact regarding whether prior art taught away from the claimed invention based on express cautionary statement in prior art along with two expert declarations expressing skepticism in the art
Rule 5 - Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers
Fed. R. Civ. P. 5 Cited 22,753 times 16 Legal AnalysesAllowing service by filing papers with the court's electronic-filing system