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The Federal Circuit is the appellate court for all patent cases and its decisions guide the lower courts and the United States Patent Office in patent cases.  Because of the importance of the Federal Circuit decisions, summaries of recent decisions of that Court are found below.
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Title No. Date
Amgen v. HMR No. 05-1157 11/26/2006 
Impax v. Aventis No. 05-1313 11/20/2006 
PHG v. St. John No. 06-1169 11/17/2006 
Abraxis v. Mayne No. 06-1118 11/15/2006 
Abbott v. Baxter Nos. 06-1021, -1022, -1034 11/10/2006 
Cook Biotech Inc. v. Acell, Inc No. 05-1458, -1558, -1559 8/18/2006 
Conoco, Inc. v. Energy & Envtl. Int’l, L.C No. 05-1363, -1461 8/17/2006 
Tegic Communications Corp. v. Board of Regents No. 05-1553 8/10/2006 
Pennington Seed, Inc. v. Produce Exchange No. 299 No. 05-1440 8/9/2006 
Pfizer v. Ranbaxy No. 06-1179 8/2/2006 
Agfa v. Creo Prods., Inc No. 05-1079 6/26/2006 
Aventis Pharma Deutschland Gmbh, et al. v. Lupin, Ltd., et al. No. 2006-1530, -1555 6/26/2006 
Abbott Labs. v. Andrx Pharms., Inc. & Teva No 05-1433 6/22/2006 
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc., Supreme Court No. 04‑607 6/22/2006 
Honeywell v. ITT et al. No. 05-1407 6/22/2006 
Panduit Corporation v. HellermannTyton Corporation No. 05-1337 6/12/2006 
Faulkner v. Inglis No. 05-1324 5/26/2006 
eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange, LLC No. 05-130 5/15/2006 
On Demand Machine Corp. v. Ingram Industries, Inc. et al., Nos. 05-1074, -1075, -1100 3/31/2006 
Atofina v. Great Lakes Chemical Corporation No. 05-1359 3/23/2006 
Wilson Sporting Goods v. Hillerich & Bradsby No. 05-1103 3/23/2006 
In re Kahn No. 04-1616 3/22/2006 
Kao Corp. v. Unilever U.S., Inc No. 05-1038c 3/21/2006 
Schoenhaus v. Genesco, Inc., No. 05-1278 3/15/2006 
Microchip Technologies Incorporated v. The Chamberlain Group No. 05-1339 3/15/2006 
M. Eagles Tool Warehouse, Inc. v. Fisher Tooling Company, Inc. Nos. 05-1224, -1228 2/27/2006 
SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Apotex Corp No. 04-1522 2/24/2006 
Ferring et al. v. Barr Labs., Inc., No. 05-1284 2/15/2006 
Digital Control Inc. v. Charles Machine Works No. 05-1128 2/8/2006 
Medichem v. Rolabo Nos. 05-1179, -1248 2/3/2006