In this lawsuit alleging defendants infringed plaintiff assignee’s patent for an internet server and method of controlling an internet server, the Alexandria U.S. District Court says the assignment gave the assignee “all substantial rights” and it may pursue this action. ...

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

A criminal defendant ordered to make restitution for wire fraud is not required to forfeit her interest in an ERISA-protected Employee Stock Ownership plan, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says; ERISA’s anti-alienation and assignment provision bars the government from seeking ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. District Court construes a change in patent law under 35 U.S.C. § 154(b)(1)(B) to reject the U.S. PTO’s calculation of additional days added to the length of a patent term for delay attributable to the failure of ...

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

Although plaintiff foundation and defendant insurance carrier settled the foundation’s claim for coverage of certain expenses arising out a lawsuit the foundation lost in a Texas state court that allegedly prompted the foundation’s bankruptcy, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says ...

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

A federal inmate’s petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 seeking resentencing after he was sentenced as a career criminal on a cocaine conspiracy conviction is dismissed without prejudice; the Alexandria U.S. District Court says § 2241 is not a substitute ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses a petition alleging defendant violated her period of supervised release because her term for supervised release expired before the petition was filed; defendant’s supervised release term was not tolled pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § ...

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In a Massachusetts company’s patent infringement suit against a German company, the Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses the German company for lack of personal jurisdiction, as plaintiff has been unable to rebut defendant’s affidavit asserting it is not a patentee ...

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

In this case of first impression in this circuit, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says a respondent mother who won an international custody case is not entitled to attorney’s fees under the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, but she is ...

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

Three of five ads paid for by the Hispanic Leadership Fund that criticize the oil or healthcare policies of “the Administration,” “the White House” or “the Government” identify a specific federal candidate – President Obama – and therefore are “electioneering ...

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

A prime contractor for operation of Army family health center facilities who had to renegotiate its prime contract after a successful bid challenge, and a subcontractor on a subcontract awarded before the original prime contract award who asserts the original ...

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