http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Amazon.com Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/131650 Casio Computer Co. Ltd., one of dozens of technology companies named in an infringement suit over patents related to digital transmission and wireless communications, has reached a deal with patent-holding company SPH America Inc. and been dismissed from the case. http://www.law360.com/articles/131650 http://www.law360.com/articles/130073 The American Booksellers Association has urged the U.S. Department of Justice to look into whether retail giants Amazon.com, Wal-Mart Corp. and Target Corp. are engaging in illegal predatory pricing practices in an attempt to win control of the market for hardcover best-sellers. http://www.law360.com/articles/130073 http://www.law360.com/articles/130048 Patent-holding company Actus LLC has dropped its claims against Google Inc. in a lawsuit against nearly two dozen technology companies over patents related to an electronic payment system. http://www.law360.com/articles/130048 http://www.law360.com/articles/129544 Some of the music industry's top players — including Apple Inc., Amazon.com and Universal Music Publishing Group — have committed to improving online music opportunities in Europe, with an eye on new licensing platforms and a common framework for exchanging rights ownership data, according to European antitrust officials. http://www.law360.com/articles/129544 http://www.law360.com/articles/129451 Following in the footsteps of numerous other banks, Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries have reached a truce with TQP Development LLC in a patent infringement suit over technology for online encrypted data transmissions. http://www.law360.com/articles/129451 http://www.law360.com/articles/129267 The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and two of its subsidiaries have become the latest defendants to reach a settlement with TQP Development LLC in one of its ongoing and wide-ranging patent infringement suits over technology governing online encrypted data transmissions. http://www.law360.com/articles/129267 http://www.law360.com/articles/129068 With the Federal Communications Commission expected to vote on hotly debated net neutrality rules Thursday, 72 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have asked the agency to soften the proposals to avoid stifling broadband competition, while Google Inc. and other top Web-based companies have stressed the need for a more open Internet. http://www.law360.com/articles/129068 http://www.law360.com/articles/127466 Lawyers for Motorola Inc. have asked a judge to disqualify the opposing counsel in a wireless patent fight with patent-holding company SPH America Inc., saying the ex-Howrey LLP attorney has represented their client before and has now switched sides. http://www.law360.com/articles/127466 http://www.law360.com/articles/127371 API Technologies LLC has cut a deal with AOL LLC, MapQuest Inc. and other Internet firms in its suit targeting dozens of companies for allegedly infringing its data network patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/127371 http://www.law360.com/articles/127162 Inventor Leon Stambler has launched another expansive infringement suit against a slew of retailers — including Target Corp., Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. — accusing them of violating two patents related to keeping information secure during online transactions. http://www.law360.com/articles/127162 http://www.law360.com/articles/126832 TQP Development LLC has reached a settlement agreement with Capital One Financial Corp. and two subsidiaries, potentially releasing the group from one of several ongoing and wide-ranging patent infringement suits over a TQP technology governing online encrypted data transmissions. http://www.law360.com/articles/126832 http://www.law360.com/articles/126606 Eolas Technologies Inc. has hit nearly two dozen companies — including PepsiCo. Inc., YouTube LLC, Amazon.com and Blockbuster Inc. — with a patent infringement suit over interactive Web site technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/126606 http://www.law360.com/articles/126477 The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the solicitor general to file a brief expressing the U.S.' perspective on Costco v. Omega, a case currently awaiting the high court's cert call that asks whether imported goods made overseas can enjoy copyright first-sale doctrine protection. http://www.law360.com/articles/126477 http://www.law360.com/articles/125913 TQP Development LLC has dropped ING Groep NV from an ongoing patent infringement lawsuit accusing a slew of major companies — including Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. MetLife Inc., Apple Inc. and eBay Inc. — of infringing its online encrypted data transmission method. http://www.law360.com/articles/125913 http://www.law360.com/articles/125069 IAC Search & Media Inc. has reached a settlement in a suit brought by Girafa.com Inc. accusing several e-commerce companies of infringing a patent related to thumbnail images in Web searches, on the heels of a summary judgment ruling for Yahoo Inc. and two other defendants in the case. http://www.law360.com/articles/125069 http://www.law360.com/articles/124730 Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. smacked several companies — including Sears Holding Corp., Amazon.com Inc., QVC Inc. and Netflix Inc. — with a lawsuit on Friday, asserting six patents related to e-commerce and search engine technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/124730 http://www.law360.com/articles/124471 Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. have been dropped from Actus LLC's wide-ranging patent infringement suit over four patents related to electronic payment systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/124471 http://www.law360.com/articles/124276 Patent-holding company SimpleAir Inc. has sued Facebook Inc., the Walt Disney Co., Apple Inc. and a handful of other corporations for allegedly infringing four patents that cover network messaging. http://www.law360.com/articles/124276 http://www.law360.com/articles/124174 Software developer SpeedTrack Inc. has launched a lawsuit accusing nearly two dozen major online retailers, including Amazon.com Inc., Best Buy Co. and Overstock.com Inc., of infringing a patent that covers a search mechanism customers can use to locate products on the retailers' Web sites. http://www.law360.com/articles/124174 http://www.law360.com/articles/123029 Sonic Solutions has become the latest in a string of defendants to settle with Actus LLC, a patent-holding company that accused nearly two dozen entities of infringing four patents related to an electronic payment system. http://www.law360.com/articles/123029