The Central District of California denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss or transfer plaintiff’s first-filed declaratory judgement action based on defendant’s later-filed patent infringement suit in ...

Collateral estoppel, or issue preclusion, the Court of Appeals found, "precludes a party from relitigating in a subsequent action or proceeding an issue clearly raised in a prior action or proceeding ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a declaratory judgment action, explaining that declaratory judgment jurisdiction does not “arise merely on the ...