The 4th Circuit upholds a $26 million verdict for a Florida-based designer and distributor of underground mining tires; the district court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over a company domiciled in the United Arab Emirates and a Chinese manufacturer who conspired ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Intellectual Property Per Curiam Opinion

In a Petersburg company’s suit alleging defendant, its former customer, violated a confidentiality agreement by appropriating plaintiff’s formula for a plant nutrient defendant markets as “Voodoo Juice,” a Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant on plaintiff’s claims ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After a 13-day bench trial, an Alexandria U.S. District Court finds defendant companies have infringed plaintiff MeadWestvaco’s patents involving the dip tube that transports fragrance from a perfume bottle to the sprayer. Plaintiffs MeadWestvaco Corporation and MeadWestvaco Calmars brought patent ...

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

In this patent infringement suit involving two patents for monitoring email and website behavior of an email recipient, a Norfolk U.S. District Court issues its opinion detailing the multiple claim constructions in this case after conducting the Markman hearing and ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Richmond U.S. District Court grants defendant Volvo’s motion to transfer this patent infringement suit involving a “Convertible Vehicle Child Safety Seat” to the District of New Jersey pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) and to sever and stay plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A California nonprofit service group that uses the name “RedRoverResponders” for its program using volunteers to care for animals displaced by natural disasters does not infringe plaintiff LLC’s registered service mark, “Wag’N Rover Respond’R.” for the LLC’s “Mobile Emergency Information ...

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

Although plaintiff German corporation had standing when it first sued defendant corporation for patent infringement, plaintiff’s suit became moot after plaintiff pursued bankruptcy in Germany and the appointed insolvency administrator obtained the legal right to sue for patent infringement; the ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this multi-million dollar intellectual property case, a Richmond U.S. District Court grants judgment as a matter of law to defendant Kolon Industries Inc. on plaintiff DuPont’s claims for conversion and civil conspiracy; the federal court says Virginia courts would ...

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

Meyer, a manufacturer of “Anolon Advanced” cookware, wins its suit alleging trade dress infringement and violation of North Carolina unfair trade practices law against defendant Belk department store, which sold a private-label cookware that was “deceptively similar”; the 4th Circuit ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Intellectual Property Judge Andre M. Davis

In the wake of a Norfolk federal jury’s $115 million award to a small technology company, as well as $17.4 million in supplemental damages and $6.6 million in post-judgment interest, the Norfolk U.S. District Court grants plaintiff company’s motion for ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District