http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: General Motors Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134571 China’s aggressive $586 billion stimulus plan has increased its domestic consumption and jump-started China’s economic recovery. U.S. innovation, however, can also benefit from China’s stimulus plan. Not only do Chinese companies seek to acquire technologies in tangible form, but they also actively seek to acquire intangible IP rights, says Lei Mei of Mei & Mark LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/134571 http://www.law360.com/articles/134970 Amerigon Inc. has sued W.E.T. Automotive Systems AG for allegedly infringing four patents it owns or licenses for technology that powers temperature-controlled automobile seats. http://www.law360.com/articles/134970 http://www.law360.com/articles/134785 Swedish automotive safety parts manufacturer Autoliv Inc. has agreed to purchase auto parts maker Delphi Holdings LLC's air bag, seat belt and steering wheel assets, including an operations center in Mexico. http://www.law360.com/articles/134785 http://www.law360.com/articles/134717 Chafing at consolidation, New York Law School and other plaintiffs suing hedge fund manager J. Ezra Merkin for handing billions of dollars over to Bernard L. Madoff are struggling to convince the court to distinguish among the allegedly mismanaged funds and appoint separate counsel accordingly. http://www.law360.com/articles/134717 http://www.law360.com/articles/134624 A U.S. trustee has asked that a bankruptcy court hold back part of any interim compensation to professionals in the Metaldyne Corp. Chapter 11 proceedings, including Jones Day, Foley & Lardner LLP and Reed Smith LLP, until the cases are resolved. http://www.law360.com/articles/134624 http://www.law360.com/articles/132118 Representatives of foreign debtors are increasingly relying on Chapter 15 as a means of protecting a foreign debtor’s U.S. assets pending a determination as to whether such assets (or their proceeds) should be repatriated abroad to be administered in the venue of the debtor’s foreign main proceeding, which serves as a centralized forum to resolve all claims against the debtor or its assets, say Pedro A. Jimenez and Mark G. Douglas of Jones Day. http://www.law360.com/articles/132118 http://www.law360.com/articles/133221 Attorney Matthew Feldman has rejoined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP after a successful term leading the legal team that helped develop and implement the restructuring and recapitalization of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC. http://www.law360.com/articles/133221 http://www.law360.com/articles/133078 Lev Dassin, a former acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is joining the litigation practice of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/133078 http://www.law360.com/articles/132722 A fugitive former General Motors Corp. commodity manager has returned to the United States after evading custody for more than a year, pleading guilty Thursday in a kickback and fraud scheme involving the sale of bulk aluminum. http://www.law360.com/articles/132722 http://www.law360.com/articles/132653 A New York City judge approved Southfield, Mich.-based Lear Corp.'s plan of reorganization on Thursday in a bankruptcy hearing devoid of objections save an eleventh-hour letter from one wiped-out shareholder who did not show up to press the fight. http://www.law360.com/articles/132653 http://www.law360.com/articles/132244 General Motors Co. has scrapped plans to sell its majority stake in its European brands Opel and Vauxhall, deciding instead to hold on to the units and prompting mixed reactions from European labor unions. http://www.law360.com/articles/132244 http://www.law360.com/articles/128867 In two cases in 2000 and 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court decried what it perceived as product design trade dress litigation’s deleterious effect on competition. Here are the post-Wal-Mart and TrafFix “won-loss” records of product design trade dress plaintiffs, along with summaries of the published dispositions the various federal courts of appeal have made of their claims, says Thomas L. Casagrande of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128867 http://www.law360.com/articles/131535 Accused by federal regulators of falsifying Delphi Corp.’s financial records, the bankrupt auto parts supplier's former CEO J.T. Battenberg III has failed to prevent a jury from deciding his fate at trial. http://www.law360.com/articles/131535 http://www.law360.com/articles/131349 Delphi Corp. has settled a dispute with Appaloosa Management LP over the hedge fund's decision to pull out of a $2.55 billion financing deal that derailed the auto parts supplier's emergence from bankruptcy in 2008. http://www.law360.com/articles/131349 http://www.law360.com/articles/131317 A former salaried employee at Delphi Corp. told a U.S. Senate panel Thursday that the slashing of thousands of retirees' pensions through the company's bankruptcy process was at best unfair and at worst a violation of federal law. http://www.law360.com/articles/131317 http://www.law360.com/articles/131059 China has reportedly notified the United States of a formal anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigation that could result in new import duties on automobiles made by Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. http://www.law360.com/articles/131059 http://www.law360.com/articles/130946 Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday that a consortium led by Zhejiang Geely Group Holding Co. Ltd. had become the preferred bidder in ongoing discussions to sell its Volvo car unit, but it cautioned that no final decisions had been made. http://www.law360.com/articles/130946 http://www.law360.com/articles/130272 Motors Liquidation Co. — what's left of the former General Motors Corp. in bankruptcy — has urged a federal judge to reject an appeal from product liability claimants who say a bankruptcy court should not have allowed General Motors LLC, or “New GM,” to buy the bankrupt automaker's assets free and clear of their tort claims. http://www.law360.com/articles/130272 http://www.law360.com/articles/130382 The European Commission reportedly set a deadline Monday to review Magna International Inc. and OAO Sberbank’s plan to acquire General Motors Corp.’s European unit Adam Opel GmbH. http://www.law360.com/articles/130382 http://www.law360.com/articles/130381 A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of unlawfully profiting from life insurance benefit accounts that were supposed to be under the sole control of life insurance beneficiaries, in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. http://www.law360.com/articles/130381