Legal Opinion
C.R. Bard, Inc. v. Boris Schwartz
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 30, 1983No. Appeal 83-682PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KASHIWA, Circuit Judge.
This case on appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey raises two important issues. First, we must decide whether we have jurisdiction under The Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, Pub.L. No. 97-164, § 127, 96 Stat. 25, 37 (28 U.S.C. § 1295) to decide whether a federal district court has jurisdiction of a case under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) (1976). If we have jurisdiction, we must then decide whether a patent licensee may bring a federal declaratory judgment action to declare a patent subject to a license invalid while that license is…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Aetna Life Insurance v. HaworthSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- United States v. United Mine Workers of AmericaSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Golden v. ZwicklerSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by105 opinions
- Hal Roach Studios, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Richard Feiner and Company, Inc., a New York CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990
- Samuel Gart v. Logitech, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2001
- Indium Corporation of America v. Semi-Alloys, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1985
- Arrowhead Industrial Water, Inc. v. Ecolochem, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1988
- Genentech, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Company, and the Regents of the University of CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1993
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