Miles Farm Supply challenges the district court’s summary disposition of its Kentucky-law claims that Helena Chemical Company aided and abetted a breach of fiduciary duty by three Miles employees and that, by aiding those employees, Helena tortiously interfered with Miles’ prospective contractua...   MORE>>

The dispute in this case arises from Pro-Med Clinical Systems, LLC’s (“Pro-Med”) use of Pro-Med Maximus, paper templates designed to capture a physician-patient encounter, and the electronic version of that product developed by Pro-Med. Utopia Provider Systems, Inc. (“Utopia”) alleges that...   MORE>>

ANSYS, Inc. ("ANSYS") is a company that produces propriety software in the field of computational fluid dynamics ("CFD"). In August 2009, ANSYS sued its former employee, Dr. Doru Caraeni, and his new employer, Computational Dynamics North America, Ltd. ("CDNA"), in the federal district court for the...   MORE>>

This appeal presents a question of the propriety of a preliminary injunction enforcing, under Pennsylvania law, a restrictive covenant not to compete. However, because the parties concede on appeal that the lack of complete diversity deprives this Court of subject matter jurisdiction, the threshold ...   MORE>>

PRM Energy Systems, Inc. (“PRM”), licensed certain gasification technology patents to Primenergy, L.L.C. (“Primenergy”). Through a network of agreements (the “1999 Agreements”), PRM licensed Primenergy to use the gasification technology and enter into sublicense agreements in a number of...   MORE>>

Southwest Stainless, L.P., is a metals manufacturer formed by the merger of three metals businesses known collectively as the Metals Group or Metals. When the Metals Group was acquired by HD Supply, Inc., in 1997, among its owners were Sappington, Emmer, and Ronald L. Siegenthaler. All three men wer...   MORE>>

Plaintiff, Microsoft Corporation, (“Plaintiff” or “Microsoft”) commenced this lawsuit asserting various causes of action premised on Defendants alleged distribution of counterfeit or unlicensed software and components. Presently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration of...   MORE>>

This case primarily involves a dispute between SCO and Novell regarding the scope of intellectual property in certain UNIX and UnixWare technology and other rights retained by Novell following the sale of part of its UNIX business to Santa Cruz, a predecessor corporate entity to SCO, in the mid-1990...   MORE>>

R.W. Beck, Inc., and E3 Consulting, LLC, both provide consulting services and produce independent-engineer reports used to obtain financing for energy related projects. Reports prepared by both Beck and E3 have contained sections entitled “Principal Considerations and Assumptions Used in the Proje...   MORE>>

PFS owned and operated a food distribution center in Oskaloosa, Iowa (PFS Oskaloosa). PFS Oskaloosa was originally owned by a private individual, and was bought by ConAgra Poultry Company (ConAgra Poultry) in 1975. In November 2003, Pilgrim’s Pride bought ConAgra Poultry and acquired PFS Oskaloosa...   MORE>>