Injunction

On May 15, 2006, the Supreme Court issued its decision in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, LLC, 126 S. Ct. 1837. In eBay, the Supreme Court held “that the decision whether to grant or deny injunctive relief rests within the equitable discretion of the district courts, and that such discretion must be exercised consistent with traditional principles of equity, in patent disputes no less than in other cases governed by such standards.”

On this resource page, I offer a running list of the patent, copyright, and trademark cases in which courts have applied the eBay four-factor framework to grant or deny injunctive relief. I post a newly decided case within a day or two of receiving electronic notice of it (by means of a Westlaw daily automatic search). [ Last updated 12/31/2007 ]

PLEASE NOTE - I stopped updating this page on 12/31/2007.

PATENT

Preliminary Injunction

Grant

  • Christiana Indus. Inc. v. Empire Electronics, Inc., 2006 WL 2244014 (E.D. Mich. Aug. 4, 2006) (denying motion to reconsider, in light of eBay, prior grant of preliminary injunction against alleged infringer)
  • Canon Inc. v. GCC Int’l Ltd., No. 06-Civ-3324, 2006 WL 2516568 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 29, 2006), aff’d by Fed. Cir. Nov. 2007
  • Sanofi-Synthelabo v. Apotex Inc., 2006 WL 2516486 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 31, 2006)
  • Sanofi-Synthelabo v. Apotex Inc., 470 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 8, 2006)
  • Erico Int’l Corp. v. Doc’s Marketing, Inc., No. 05-CV-2924, 2007 WL 108450 (N.D. Ohio Jan. 9, 2007)
  • Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Lear Corp., No. 05-3449, 2007 WL 1017751 (N.D. Ill. March 30, 2007)
  • Seitz v. Envirotech Systems Worldwide, No. 02-4782, 2007 WL 1795683 (S.D. Tex. June 19, 2007)
  • Canon Inc. v. GCC Int’l Ltd., 2007 WL 4005018, No. 06-1615 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 16, 2007)

Deny

  • Abbott Labs. v. Andrx Pharms., 452 F.3d 1331 (Fed. Cir. June 22, 2006)
  • Docusign, Inc. v. Sertifi, Inc., No. 06-0906Z, 2006 WL 3000134 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 19, 2006)
  • Novartis Corp. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., No. 06-1130, 2007 WL 1695689 (D.N.J. June 11, 2007)
  • Torspo Hockey Int’l, Inc. v. Kor Hockey Ltd., No. 07-0246, 2007 WL 1752725 (D. Minn. June 18, 2007)
  • Baden Sports, Inc. v. Kabushiki Kaisha Molten, No. 06-210, 2007 WL 2056402 (W.D. Wash. July 16, 2007)
  • Pass & Seymour, Inc. v. Hubbell Inc., No. 07-0272, 2007 WL 2172648 (N.D.N.Y. July 23, 2007)
  • Sun Optics, Inc. v. FGX Int’l, No. 07-137, 2007 WL 2228569 (D. Del. Aug. 2, 2007)
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., No. 05-1887, 2007 WL 2669338 (D.N.J. Sept. 6, 2007) (denied on strength of accused infringer’s invalidity theory)
  • Altana Pharma AG v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., No. 04-2355, 2007 WL 2688917 (D.N.J. Sept. 6, 2007) (denied on strength of accused infringer’s invalidity theory)
  • Tiber Laboratories, Inc. v. Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals, Inc., No. 07-0092, 2007 WL 2710456 (N.D. Ga. Sept. 12, 2007)
  • iLOR, LLC v. Google, Inc., No. 07-109, 2007 WL 4259586 (E.D. Ky. Nov. 30, 2007) (denied on strength of accused infringer’s noninfringement defense)
  • Precision Automation, Inc. v. Technical Services, Inc., No. 07-707, 2007 WL 4480739 (D. Or. Dec. 14, 2007) (denied for lack of an adequate showing on the irreparable harm factor)

Permanent Injunction

Grant

  • Wald v. Mudhopper Oilfield Servs., 2006 WL 2128851 (W.D. Okl. July 27, 2006)
  • Telequip Corp. v. Change Exchange, No. 5:01-CV-1748, 2006 WL 2385425 (N.D.N.Y. Aug. 15, 2006)
  • Tivo Inc. v. Echostar Communications Corp., 446 F.Supp.2d 664 (E.D. Tex. Aug. 17, 2006) (Folsom, J.)
  • Floe Int’l, Inc. v. Newmans’ Mfg. Inc., No. 04-5120, 2006 WL 2472112, at *9 (D. Minn. Aug. 23, 2006)
  • Litecubes LLC v. Northern Lights Prods., No. 04-CV-00485 ERW, unreported slip op. at 16-17 (E.D. Missouri Aug. 25, 2006)
  • 3M Innovative Properties Co. v. Avery Dennison Corp., No. 01-1781, 2006 WL 2735499 (D. Minn. Sept. 25, 2006)
  • Rosco v. Mirror Lite Co., No. 96-5658, 2006 WL 2844400 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 29, 2006)
  • Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Sythes (U.S.A.), No. 02-2873, 2006 WL 3543274 (W.D. Tenn. Oct. 27, 2006)
  • Black & Decker Inc. v. Robert Bosch Tool Corp., No. 04-7955, 2006 WL 3446144 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 29, 2006)
  • Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. GlobalSantaFe Corp., No. 03-2910, 2006 WL 3813778 (S.D. Tex. Dec. 27, 2006)
  • Visto Corp. v. Seven Networks, Inc., No. 03-333, 2006 WL 3741891 (E.D. Tex. Dec. 19, 2006) [with a hat tip to E.M.!]
  • MPT, Inc. v. Marathon Labels, Inc., No. 04-2357, 2007 WL 184747 (N.D. Ohio Jan. 19, 2007)
  • Novozymes A/S v. Genencor Int’l, Inc., 474 F. Supp. 2d 592 (D. Del. Feb. 16, 2007)
  • Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc. v. Mylan Labs. Inc., 2007 WL 869545 (D.N.J. March 20, 2007)
  • O2 Micro Int’l Ltd. v. Beyond Innovation Tech. Co., No. 04-32, 2007 WL 869576 (E.D.Tex. March 21, 2007)
  • 800 Adept, Inc. v. Murex Securities, Ltd., No. 02-1354, 2007 WL 1101238 (M.D. Fla. Apr. 12, 2007)
  • MGM Well Services, Inc. v. Mega Lift Systems, LLC, No. 05-1634, 2007 WL 1231682 (S.D. Tex. Apr. 25, 2007)
  • Brooktrout, Inc. v. Eicon Networks Corp., No. 03-59, 2007 WL 1730112 (E.D. Tex. June 14, 2007)
  • Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation v. Buffalo Technology Inc., 492 F.Supp.2d 600 (E.D. Tex. June 15, 2007)
  • Sanofi-Synthelabo v. Apotex Inc., No. 02-2255, 2007 WL 1746134 (S.D.N.Y. June 19, 2007)
  • Muniauction, Inc. v. Thomson Corp., No. 01-1003, 2007 WL 2225847 (W.D. Pa. July 31, 2007)
  • Allan Block Corp. v. E. Dillon & Co., No. 04-3511, 2007 WL 2409669 (D. Minn. Aug. 20, 2007)
  • Johns Hopkins University v. Datascope Corp., No. 05-0759, 2007 WL 2682001 (D. Md. Aug. 9, 2007)
  • Baden Sports, Inc. v. Kabushiki Kaisha Molten, No. 06-210, 2007 WL 2790777 (W.D. Wash. Sept. 25, 2007)
  • Verizon Services Corp. v. Vonage Holdings Corp., No. 07-1240, 2007 WL 2781869 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 26, 2007)
  • Sundance, Inc. v. Demonte Fabricating Ltd., No. 02-73543, 2007 WL 3053662 (E.D. Mich. Oct. 19, 2007)
  • Martek Biosciences Corp. v. Nutrinova Inc., No. 03-896, 2007 WL 3181307 (D. Del. Oct. 30, 2007)
  • Acumed LLC v. Stryker Corp., No. 04-513, 2007 WL 4180682 (D. Or. Nov. 20, 2007)

Deny

  • z4 Techs. v. Microsoft Corp., 434 F.Supp.2d 437 (E.D. Tex. June 14, 2006) (Davis, J.)
  • Finisar Corp. v. DirecTV Group, No. 1:05-CV-264 (E.D. Tex. July 6, 2006) (Clark, J.) (described on Michael Smith’s blog about E.D. Texas proceedings).
  • Paice LLC v. Toyota Motor Corp., No. 2:04-CV-211, 2006 WL 2385139 (E.D. Tex. Aug. 16, 2006) (Folsom, J.)
  • Voda v. Cordis Corp., No. CIV-03-1512, 2006 WL 2570614 (W.D. Okla. Sept. 5, 2006)
  • Monsanto Co. v. Scruggs, 459 F.3d 1328 (Fed. Cir. 2006) (trial court’s permanent injunction order vacated, and the case remanded, for complete analysis under the eBay test)
  • Sundance, Inc. v. DeMonte Fabricating Ltd., No. 02-73543, 2007 WL 37742 (E.D. Mich. Jan. 4, 2007)
  • IMX, Inc. v. LendingTree, LLC, No. 03-1067, 2007 WL 62697 (D. Del. Jan. 10, 2007) (due in part to patentee’s failure to supplement the record after eBay, motion for permanent injunction “denied without prejudice to renew subsequent to any appeal by the parties relating to issue of infringement, validity, or wilfulness”)
  • Praxair, Inc. v. ATMI, Inc., 479 F. Supp.2d 440 (D. Del. March 27, 2007)
  • Acumed LLC v. Stryker Corp., 483 F.3d 800 (Fed. Cir. 2007) (vacating injunction and remanding for reconsideration in light of eBay)
  • MercExchange, LLC v. eBay, Inc., 2007 WL 2172587, No. 01-736 (E.D. Va. July 27, 2007)

COPYRIGHT

Preliminary Injunction

Grant

  • Lava Records LLC v. Ates, 2006 WL 1914166 (W.D. La. July 11, 2006)
  • Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. v. Leach, 466 F. Supp. 2d 628 (D. Md. Nov. 30, 2006)
  • Allora, LLC v. Brownstone, Inc., No. 07-87, 2007 WL 1246448 (W.D.N.C. Apr. 27, 2007) (preliminary injunction motion granted in part and denied in part)
  • Ticketmaster LLC v. RMG Technologies, Inc., No. 07-2534, 2007 WL 2988493 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 15, 2007)

Deny

  • Allora, LLC v. Brownstone, Inc., No. 07-87, 2007 WL 1246448 (W.D.N.C. Apr. 27, 2007) (preliminary injunction motion denied in part and granted in part)

Permanent Injunction

Grant

  • Disney Enterprises v. Delane, 446 F. Supp. 2d 402 (D. Md. July 28, 2006)
  • Litecubes LLC v. Northern Lights Prods., No. 04-CV-00485 ERW, unreported slip op. at 16-17 (E.D. Missouri Aug. 25, 2006)
  • Microsoft Corp. v. McGee, No. 06-611, 2007 WL 1469397 (S.D. Ohio May 18, 2007)
  • UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Blake, No. 506-00120, 2007 WL 1853956 (E.D.N.C. June 26, 2007)
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., No. 01-8541, 2007 WL 3227684 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 16, 2007)
  • Propet USA, Inc. v. Shugart, No. 06-0186, 2007 WL 4376204 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 13, 2007)

Deny

  • Christopher Phelps & Assocs. v. Galloway, 477 F.3d 128 (4th Cir. Feb. 12, 2007) [later superseded on rehearing]
  • Christopher Phelps & Assocs. v. Galloway, 492 F.3d 532 (4th Cir. July 5, 2007)

TRADEMARK

Preliminary Injunction

Grant

  • Harris Research, Inc. v. Lydon, No. 06-136, 2007 WL 1052479 (D. Utah Apr. 5, 2007)
  • In-N-Out Burgers v. Chadders Restaurant, No. 07-394, 2007 WL 1983813 (D. Utah June 29, 2007)
  • National League of Junior Cotillions, Inc. v. Porter, No. 06-508, 2007 WL 2316823 (W.D.N.C. Aug 9, 2007)>

Deny

  • MyGym, LLC v. Engle, No. 06-130, 2006 WL 3524474 (D. Utah Dec. 6, 2006)
  • Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Engida, No. 06-1115, 2007 WL 39207 (10th Cir. Jan. 8, 2007)

Permanent Injunction

Grant

  • Reno Air Racing Ass’n v. McCord, 452 F.3d 1126 (9th Cir. July 7, 2006)
  • Audi AG v. D’Amato, 469 F.3d 534 (6th Cir. Nov. 27, 2006)
  • Burgess v. Gilman, 475 F.Supp. 2d 1051 (D. Nev. Feb. 22, 2007)
  • MPS IP Services Corp. v. Modis Communications Inc., No. 06-270, 2007 WL 723841 (M.D. Fla. March 6, 2007)
  • Microsoft Corp. v. McGee, No. 06-611, 2007 WL 1469397 (S.D. Ohio May 18, 2007)
  • Western Union Holdings, Inc. v. Eastern Union, Inc., No. 06-1408, 2007 WL 2683714 (N.D. Ga. Sept. 7, 2007)
  • Nike, Inc. v. Nikepal International, Inc., No. 05-1468, 2007 WL 2688499 (E.D. Cal. Sept. 10, 2007) (trademark dilution case)
  • Panda Investments, Inc. v. Jabez Enterprises, Ltd., No. 07-114, 2007 WL 4556785 (N.D. Iowa Dec. 20, 2007)

Deny

(none at present)

OTHER

  • Canadian Lumber Trade Alliance v. United States, 2006 WL 2168520 (Ct. Int’l Trade July 14, 2006) (granting injunction in antidumpting case)
  • Maine People’s Alliance v. Mallinckrodt, Inc., 471 F.3d 277 (1st Cir. Dec. 22, 2006) (affirming injunction in environmental protection case)
  • O’Sullivan v. City of Chicago, 2007 WL 77914 (N.D. Ill. March 15, 2007) (granting injunction in Title VII case)
  • Tutor Time Learning Centers, LLC v. Larzak, Inc., 2007 WL 2025214, No. 05-322 (N.D. Ind. July 6, 2007) (denying injunction in a franchise agreement case)
  • New York v. Shinnecock Indian Nation, 2007 WL 3307089, No. 03-3243 (E.D.N.Y. Oct. 30, 2007) (granting injunction against construction of a casino)
  • Federal Trade Commission v. Oks, 2007 WL 3307009, No. 05-5389 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 2, 2007) (denying injunction in antitrust case)
  • Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc. v. Nofil Corp., No. 06-1686, 2007 WL 4044867 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 15, 2007)
  • United States v. Kaimikaua, No. 06-00511, 2007 WL 4163434 (D. Haw. Nov. 26, 2007)