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(Aviation accident attorney) Synthes v. GMReis

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(U.S. Fed. Cir., Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent) In a patent infringement action involving a bone plating system, district court’s dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction is reversed where although the court was correct in ruling that it did not have general jurisdiction over defendant, it erred in its ruling that it lacked specific jurisdiction, as defendant purposefully directed its activities at parties in the U.S., plaintiff’s claim of patent infringement arises out of defendant’s activities in the U.S., and assertion of jurisdiction over defendant is reasonable and fair.

Beltronics USA, Inc. v. Midwest Inv. Dist., LLC

(U.S. 10th Cir., Intellectual Property, Trademark) In a Lanham Act action based on Defendant’s sale of Plaintiff’s products without Plaintiff’s serial number label, a preliminary injunction in favor of Plaintiff is affirmed, where the “first sale” doctrine did not apply because Defendant was doing more than simply stocking, displaying and reselling Plaintiff’s products.

Princo Corp. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n

(U.S. Fed. Cir., Intellectual Property, Patent) In a patent infringement action involving compact disc technology, International Trade Commission order against plaintiff is affirmed in part and vacated and remanded in part where: 1) plaintiff failed to meet its burden of demonstrating that the patents in question are unenforceable due to patent misuse on the grounds of unlawful tying; and 2) the Commission’s analysis of the agreement issue was predicated on legal errors in several respects, and the Commission erred in failing to determine whether plaintiff established that such an agreement existed.

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