http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Equifax Copyright 2010 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/137387 The plaintiff in a putative class action contract and consumer fraud suit against TransUnion LLC and TransUnion Interactive Inc. filed a new version of his complaint on Thursday, seeking to represent a nationwide class and adding a claim under Delaware law. http://www.law360.com/articles/137387 http://www.law360.com/articles/136697 A federal judge has rejected Fair Isaac Corp.'s remaining trademark and unfair competition claims against rivals Experian Information Solutions Inc. and TransUnion LLC on the heels of a jury verdict holding that the company behind the widely used FICO credit score rating had fraudulently registered its marks. http://www.law360.com/articles/136697 http://www.law360.com/articles/135774 Fair Isaac Corp. has vowed to appeal a jury verdict siding with its rivals, three of the nation's top credit reporting agencies, in a long-running intellectual property and antitrust dispute brought by the company behind the widely used FICO credit score rating over the launch of a competing model. http://www.law360.com/articles/135774 http://www.law360.com/articles/129501 Credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. acquired wealth and asset research organization IXI Corp. Wednesday in an all-cash deal valued at $124 million, the two companies announced. http://www.law360.com/articles/129501 http://www.law360.com/articles/128684 Either the Supreme Court or Congress must acknowledge the frequent injustices being caused by the Twombly and Iqbal plausibility standard — especially in cases involving guilty plea and amnesty applicant antitrust defendants, say Michael D. Hausfeld and Michael P. Lehmann of Hausfeld LLP and law clerk Spencer Jenkins. http://www.law360.com/articles/128684 http://www.law360.com/articles/126563 A federal appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a Rochester, N.Y.-based mortgage lender's putative class action accusing three major consumer credit rating agencies of misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, fraud and unfair competition related to their sale of “trigger leads” to third-party home lenders. http://www.law360.com/articles/126563 http://www.law360.com/articles/125765 Consumers alleging that credit reporting agency Equifax Information Services LLC did not rigorously investigate their disputes over the accuracy of their public records have won class certification. http://www.law360.com/articles/125765 http://www.law360.com/articles/113328 A federal judge has stripped most of the claims out of a long-running intellectual property and antitrust dispute brought by the company behind the widely used FICO credit score rating, Fair Isaac Corp., against top national credit reporting agencies over the launch of a similar credit scoring model. http://www.law360.com/articles/113328 http://www.law360.com/articles/110230 A federal judge has dismissed three putative class actions seeking a total of more than $4 billion over allegations that the top U.S. consumer credit reporting agencies hurt credit scores for Capital One cardholders by failing to publish credit limits in their credit reports. http://www.law360.com/articles/110230 http://www.law360.com/articles/97140 IBM Corp. has accused Macy's of disingenuous legal conduct in a third-party patent liability suit brought by the retailer, claiming Macy's waited until just a few days before the technology giant moved for summary judgment to reverse its stance that a service agreement's language was ambiguous. http://www.law360.com/articles/97140 http://www.law360.com/articles/96810 Covington & Burling LLP has sought to withdraw as counsel for patent-holding company Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing LP in its suit against Ameren Corp. accusing the energy company of infringing patents for automated call processing, noting that Katz retained another firm. http://www.law360.com/articles/96810 http://www.law360.com/articles/95370 Calling the plaintiff’s key argument “meritless,” a federal appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of an antitrust suit filed by credit information reseller CBC Cos Inc. against Equifax Inc. that accused the agency of abusing its market power and stifling resale competition. http://www.law360.com/articles/95370 http://www.law360.com/articles/68562 A consumer reporting agency trade group has accused major credit bureau Equifax Inc. of blocking its members from accessing mortgage buyer Freddie Mac's automated underwriting system and thereby impeding competition among mortgage credit-reporting agencies. http://www.law360.com/articles/68562 http://www.law360.com/articles/62060 The FTC's consent order with TALX Inc. sent a message that companies cannot get away with gradually acquiring smaller competitors through a series of mergers that have a cumulative anti-competitive effect, says Lou C. Spelios of Powell Goldstein LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/62060 http://www.law360.com/articles/56885 Credit information provider Experian Plc has joined a long list of companies that settled with billionaire inventor Ronald A. Katz over patents for interactive voice applications, Katz revealed on Wednesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/56885 http://www.law360.com/articles/54806 Telecommunications company T-Mobile Inc. has become the latest to settle with billionaire inventor Ronald A. Katz over patents for interactive voice applications. http://www.law360.com/articles/54806 http://www.law360.com/articles/54507 TALX Corp. has reached a deal with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the agency's concerns that TALX's acquisition spree in the first half of the decade “substantially lessened competition” in two outsourced data management services markets. http://www.law360.com/articles/54507 http://www.law360.com/articles/52293 The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has lost a binder containing the personal information, going back 14 years, of more than 2,800 former employees. http://www.law360.com/articles/52293 http://www.law360.com/articles/51402 Health care organization Kaiser Permanente has settled an infringement suit filed by billionaire inventor Ronald A. Katz over patents for interactive voice applications. http://www.law360.com/articles/51402 http://www.law360.com/articles/51146 Continental Airlines Inc. has agreed to pay billionaire inventor Ronald A. Katz for a nonexclusive license on patents related to interactive voice technologies, resolving a patent suit Katz filed against the airline last year and joining some 150 other high-profile licensees. http://www.law360.com/articles/51146