212496P.pdf   02/23/2022  Wildhawk Investments, LLC  v.  Brava I.P., LLC
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-2496
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Wollman, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Civil case - Contracts. The district court erred in granting plaintiff a 
   preliminary injunction barring defendants from manufacturing or selling 
   composite roofing products; the evidence from the preliminary injunction 
   showed defendants likely breached the license agreement by manufacturing 
   roofing products using the technical knowledge exclusively licensed to 
   plaintiff, and the court did not err in concluding plaintiffs had a fair 
   chance of proving defendants violated the terms of the license agreement; 
   that said, however, plaintiff's conduct after executing the license 
   agreement leads the court to conclude that plaintiff is unlikely to 
   succeed on the merits of its breach of contract claim; uncontroverted 
   evidence establishes every element of the defense of equitable estoppel, 
   and the district court erred in rejecting the defense and in finding 
   plaintiff had a likelihood of success on its breach of contract claim; 
   plaintiff failed to show either reasonable diligence or harm that cannot 
   be compensated by money damages, and it did not establish the irreparable 
   harm required under the Dataphase test; the preliminary injunction is 
   vacated, and the matter is remanded for further proceedings.