http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Foley & Lardner Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132971 The legal sector was not immune from October's grim unemployment numbers, shedding 5,800 jobs last month. http://www.law360.com/articles/132971 http://www.law360.com/articles/132710 Japan-based Nichia Corp. has slapped Chinese solar products company Jiawei North America Inc. with a patent infringement lawsuit over light-emitting diode technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/132710 http://www.law360.com/articles/130713 Although various financing mechanisms have been used to provide multimillion-dollar funding for energy transmission infrastructure projects, a new public-private partnership model has emerged in this decade. An analysis of projects using this model demonstrates the advantages and challenges that financing such projects presents, says Ann Warren of Foley & Lardner LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130713 http://www.law360.com/articles/132879 UGI Utilities Inc. is hoping to be the latest defendant dismissed from a lawsuit filed by Frontier Communications Co., which paid $7.6 million to clean up tar contamination in a Maine river and sued nearly a dozen companies it said were also liable. http://www.law360.com/articles/132879 http://www.law360.com/articles/132913 A judge has rejected a request by manufacturers including Honeywell International Inc., Wix Filtration Corp. and United Components Inc. to dismiss consolidated suits alleging price-fixing in the market for automotive filters under heightened pleading standards, saying the plaintiffs’ claims, which are based on eyewitness accounts, are more than sufficient to proceed in court. http://www.law360.com/articles/132913 http://www.law360.com/articles/132190 Iron Mountain Inc. and NetMass Inc. have settled patent infringement charges filed against them by Network Backup Corp., which has accused a plethora of companies of using its technology for backing up computer data over the Internet. http://www.law360.com/articles/132190 http://www.law360.com/articles/132175 Illumina Inc. has hit Affymetrix Inc. with a lawsuit claiming the rival genetics research company’s GeneChip products infringe a recently issued patent covering gene-sequencing technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/132175 http://www.law360.com/articles/132183 A federal judge has purged state antitrust and consumer protection claims from a putative class action brought by employee benefit plans accusing GlaxoSmithKline PLC of filing baseless patent suits to delay generic versions of antidepressant Wellbutrin SR. http://www.law360.com/articles/132183 http://www.law360.com/articles/131797 Three lawyers who previously worked at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Foley & Lardner LLP and Arrowhead Research Corp. have launched a new Washington-based intellectual property boutique — Fanelli Strain & Haag PLLC. http://www.law360.com/articles/131797 http://www.law360.com/articles/131442 Handing a victory to Japan's Sunstar Inc. in a nearly nine-year battle with Alberto-Culver Co., maker of Alberto VO5 hair care products, a federal appeals court has ruled that the legal meaning of a Japanese term used in a trademark license agreement between the two must be taken into consideration. http://www.law360.com/articles/131442 http://www.law360.com/articles/131447 Two patent-holding companies have won out over defendants Microsoft Corp. and Vizio Inc. in a federal judge's decision outlining broader claims construction for two heavily litigated patents covering a method to enhance image resolution on video displays. http://www.law360.com/articles/131447 http://www.law360.com/articles/130513 Intellectual property expert Grant Kinsel has left Foley & Lardner LLP to join the Los Angeles office of international law firm Perkins Coie LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130513 http://www.law360.com/articles/130232 Will Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Rule 5122 mean the end of the captive broker-dealer in the real estate and oil and gas direct participation private placement market? Perhaps not, but it will likely push them more in the direction of acting as pure wholesalers. Was that what FINRA intended? It seems unlikely, says Stephen I. Burr of Foley & Lardner LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130232 http://www.law360.com/articles/130042 Foley & Lardner LLP has dismissed its claims against several third-party defendants in a malpractice suit filed by former client DataTern Inc. alleging the firm overcharged for legal services and failed to properly litigate a patent infringement case. http://www.law360.com/articles/130042 http://www.law360.com/articles/129661 Two partners at intellectual property boutique Darby & Darby PC have defected to the New York office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, which finds many of its IP lawyers at boutiques, according to the vice chair of its IP group. http://www.law360.com/articles/129661 http://www.law360.com/articles/129268 Kay Beer Distributing Inc. is asking a federal appeals court to revive a contract dispute alleging the company is owed compensation for its loss of distribution rights for Glaceau bottled water when the Coca-Cola Co. purchased the brand. http://www.law360.com/articles/129268 http://www.law360.com/articles/129390 Two intellectual property lawyers who say they're frustrated with the billing rates at big-league law firms have launched Boston boutique Yamauchi & Mason LLC, which they say will forgo fancy offices and operate on a lean budget to save clients money. http://www.law360.com/articles/129390 http://www.law360.com/articles/129063 Lawyers representing Foley & Lardner LLP have removed to federal court boot maker Danner Inc.'s $2.15 million lawsuit accusing the firm of negligence in representing it in its application for a patent Danner says it was later unable to enforce. http://www.law360.com/articles/129063 http://www.law360.com/articles/128999 General Electric Co. and SonoSite Inc. have worked out a $21 million settlement and a royalty deal in their dispute over a SonoSite patent for lightweight ultrasound machines, resolving litigation in Wisconsin and Germany, as well as a federal appeals court. http://www.law360.com/articles/128999 http://www.law360.com/articles/123980 This article explains the patent marking requirement and examines the impact of TransCore LP v. Electronic Transaction Consultants Corp. on the obligations to mark under agreements that contain covenants not to sue — particularly on those agreements into which license rights are implied, say William J. Robinson, Victor de Gyarfas and Stephan J. Nickels of Foley & Lardner LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/123980