Intellivision v. Microsoft Corp.

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• “Generally, commercial transactions do not create fiduciary obligations, absent express language in the contract or prolonged prior course of dealings between the parties establishing the fiduciary relationship.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “the Court need not consider many of these untimely, multiplicative, and unauthorized filings”
• plaintiffs estopped from arguing, at summary judgment, that individual plaintiffs owned and assigned rights in patent applications, where plaintiffs argued in complaints and at motion to dismiss phase that rights were owned and assigned by joint venture entity

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