Outcome
Court granted in part and denied in part defendant's motion to dismiss counterclaims. First Counterclaim seeking correction of patent application inventorship was dismissed without leave to amend; declaratory judgment counterclaims regarding unissued patents were dismissed as not ripe; trade secret misappropriation and Lanham Act false description counterclaims were allowed to proceed.
What This Ruling Means
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