Electronics for Imaging, Inc. v. Coyle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that dismissal of first-filed action is improper where “the court’s decision is left to rest exclusively on the alleged anticipatory nature of [plaintiff's] suit”
• holding that dismissal of first-filed action is improper where “the court’s decision is left to rest exclusively on the alleged anticipatory nature of [plaintiff's] suit”
• noting that a district court may consider a party’s intent to preempt another’s infringement suit, which is “merely one factor in the analysis”
• explaining that the first-filed rule is favored “in the absence of circumstances making it ‘unjust or inefficient’ to permit a first-filed action to proceed to judgment”
• stating that exceptions to the first-filed rule are not rare
• stating that exceptions to the first-filed rule are not rare

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).