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An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in plaintiff company’s suit alleging the PTO improperly determined the amount of patent term adjustment for the company’s ‘436 patent, “C-Met Modulators and Methods of ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Leonie Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this diversity action seeking to recover the balance of a loan defendants had guaranteed on behalf of Lehman Brothers Bank FSB, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court awards summary judgment to plaintiff creditor against the two individual defendants who personally ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

Two government contractors whose False Claims Act suit allegedly blows the whistle on defendant contractor’s false weapons qualification scheme and false billeting scheme for security personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, see their qui tam suit dismissed by an Alexandria U.S. ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiffs’ suit challenging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s denial of his application for a patent relating to a method for treating tumors with formic acid, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment for the PTO’s rejection of ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A plaintiff who had an decades-long intimate relationship with defendant, with whom she also had a contract to operate a Nelson County horse farm and breeding operation, can try her claim of fraudulent inducement by defendant based on evidence that ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

In this contract action arising from interpretation of a sales agreement for a coal mining business, the Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court says plaintiff buyer’s expert may testify on his opinion as to costs of reclamation for the subject ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

A borrower who executed a promissory note to a North Carolina bank cannot overturn summary judgment for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the bank’s receiver suing to recover on the notes, by arguing that his production of an IRS 1099-C ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge G. Steven Agee

In this shareholder derivative action against Capital One officers and directors alleging inadequate oversight of a third-party call center’s marketing of add-on products, the Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses claims for corporate waste and unjust enrichment, but says plaintiffs have ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Tiffany presentation sword presented to Col. Rush Hawkins in May 1863 and conveyed to plaintiff Brown University as part of the Annmary Brown Memorial was stolen from the Memorial sometime before 1977, and because the thief could not convey ...

Tagged with: Judge Douglas E. Miller U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In remand of this case in which the court earlier entered an injunction, the Richmond U.S. District Court denies defendant’s motion to dissolve the injunction, but modifies the injunction to conform to the findings upheld by the appellate court. Defendant ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District