 | Air Pirates comic book, volume 1 (1971)
Walt Disney Productions v. Air Pirates, 581 F.2d 751 (9th Cir. 1978)
(portrayal of Disney cartoon characters smuggling drugs and engaging in various sex acts deemed not fair use)
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| James Thompson's The Four Seasons, published by Donaldson (1763)
Donaldson v. Beckett, 98 Eng. Rep. 257 (House of Lords 1774)
(overturning Millar, denying common-law copyright, and holding that works must enter the public domain after statutory protection expires)
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 | ProCD Select Phone phone-number database on CD-ROM (1996)
ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir., 1996)
(holding "shrink-wrap license" protecting uncopyrightable content to be valid and not pre-empted by federal copyright law)
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 | Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., Ltd., 535 U.S. 722 (2002)
(holding that amending patent claims creates a presumption against the inventor under the doctrine of equivalents)
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 | Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., 964 F. 2d 965 (9th Cir. 1992)
(holding that altering the operation of a video game was fair use and not an unauthorized “derivative work” under copyright law)
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 | Jazz Photo Corp. v. U.S. International Trade Commission, 264 F.3d 1094 (Fed. Cir. 2001)
(disassembling and refurbishing used disposable cameras and reselling them does not infringe the patents covering the cameras)
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 | Lotus Development Corporation v. Borland International, Inc., 516 U.S. 233 (1996)
(copyright cannot be used to protect program menus or software layout)
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 | RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999)
(landmark litigation where the record industry failed to stop the MP3 player)
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 | Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co., 305 U.S. 111 (1938)
(Nabsico could not use trademark to protect the subject matter of expired patents and monopolized shredded wheat production)
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 | National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F.3d 841 (2d Cir. 1997)
(holding that transmitting real-time scores of sporting events is not actionable misappropriation)
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 | Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co., 376 U.S. 225 (1964)
(federal patent law preempted state law conferring exclusive rights in a lamp design)
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 | TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc., 532 U.S. 23 (2001)
(holding that trademark law cannot be used to protect the subject of an expired patent)
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 | Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. v. Utah Division Of Travel Development, 170 F.3d 449 (4th Cir. 1999) |