http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Hitachi Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134436 Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it planned to raise up to $4.6 billion in securities offerings to fund its capital expenditures, make investments and reduce its debt, as it faces an annual loss for the fourth consecutive year. http://www.law360.com/articles/134436 http://www.law360.com/articles/133988 Electron microscope supplier FEI Co. has disclosed a lawsuit in which a unit of Hitachi Ltd. accused it of infringing several patents that pertain to micro-sampling technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/133988 http://www.law360.com/articles/133191 Panasonic Corp. subsidiary MT Picture Display Co. Ltd. and its overseas subsidiaries have filed for a hearing to challenge cease-and-desist and surcharge payment orders issued against them by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission in connection with the sale of cathode ray tubes. http://www.law360.com/articles/133191 http://www.law360.com/articles/132655 Mitsubishi Corp. apparently opted for an out-of-court settlement with a retired New York City professor over the alleged infringement of patented light-emitting diode technology, shortly after the professor resolved a wide-ranging dispute before the U.S. International Trade Commission over the same patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/132655 http://www.law360.com/articles/132443 Massachusetts' highest court held Wednesday that Hitachi High Technologies America Inc.’s suit seeking to recover retirement benefits it accidentally overpaid to a former employee plus interest was preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. http://www.law360.com/articles/132443 http://www.law360.com/articles/132245 The U.S. International Trade Commission has terminated its investigation into allegations that more than 30 companies infringed a light-emitting diode patent, now that the Columbia University professor who lodged the complaint has reached a resolution with holdouts Toshiba Corp. and Panasonic Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/132245 http://www.law360.com/articles/131519 Nidec Corp. has agreed to drop its allegations that an LG Electronics Inc. unit infringed a patent covering motors used in computer CD and DVD drives, following settlement negotiations this fall. http://www.law360.com/articles/131519 http://www.law360.com/articles/130997 LG Electronics Inc. and Hitachi Ltd. have settled a computer technology patent spat seven months after a federal district judge's ruling that LG's patent rights were exhausted because the dispute was similar to a case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court last year. http://www.law360.com/articles/130997 http://www.law360.com/articles/130956 Renesas Technology Corp. has reached a preliminary agreement to transfer its semiconductor manufacturing equipment business to Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/130956 http://www.law360.com/articles/130609 LG Electronics USA Inc. has become the latest defendant to reach a settlement in a suit brought by International Control Systems LLC accusing nearly a dozen TV manufacturers of infringing a patent covering a volume control mechanism. http://www.law360.com/articles/130609 http://www.law360.com/articles/129525 Motorola Inc. has filed an antitrust suit against a slew of Asia-based liquid crystal display panel makers, including AU Optronics Corp., Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. and Sharp Electronics Corp., claiming they engaged in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/129525 http://www.law360.com/articles/128077 International law firm Denton Wilde Sapte LLP is reportedly launching redundancy consultations in an effort to cut loose more support staff members, after trimming 76 positions earlier in 2009. http://www.law360.com/articles/128077 http://www.law360.com/articles/127478 Dicam Inc. has hit a number of major cell phone makers including Hewlett Packard Co., Sharp Corp., Panasonic Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. with a suit alleging infringement of a patent for a personal security system for hand-held electronic devices. http://www.law360.com/articles/127478 http://www.law360.com/articles/126904 Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has sent a cease-and-desist letter to MT Picture Display Co. and Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. requiring them to take measures to prevent further price-fixing in the market for the cathode ray tubes used in TVs, following the agency’s investigation into their alleged involvement in an international cartel. http://www.law360.com/articles/126904 http://www.law360.com/articles/122978 Support among intellectual property law groups is growing for proposed legislation that would grant the U.S. International Trade Commission the authority to issue limited exclusion orders applying to downstream products in patent cases, effectively reversing 2008's ruling in Kyocera Wireless Corp. v. ITC. http://www.law360.com/articles/122978 http://www.law360.com/articles/126865 The European Commission has fined six power transformer producers a total of €67.6 million ($100 million) for running a market-sharing cartel the companies allegedly referred to as a “gentlemen's agreement.” http://www.law360.com/articles/126865 http://www.law360.com/articles/125788 After settling with and then acquiring a rival named in a patent infringement suit, IBM Corp. has now won a heated battle with T3 Technologies Inc., which had stepped into the fray and accused IBM of anti-competitive practices. http://www.law360.com/articles/125788 http://www.law360.com/articles/124496 Tekcore Co. Ltd., Tyntek Corp. and Arima Optoelectronics Corp. have become the latest companies to settle a suit over a light-emitting diode patent brought by a retired Columbia University professor in the U.S. International Trade Commission http://www.law360.com/articles/124496 http://www.law360.com/articles/123124 Unless the Supreme Court curtails patent protection in this area, business method patent litigation will continue to grow at a fast rate, outnumbering the already busy activity in the pharma and electronics fields, says Christopher E. Chalsen, head of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP's global intellectual property litigation practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/123124 http://www.law360.com/articles/122495 NEC Electronics Corp. and Renesas Technology Corp. said they will receive an injection of 200 billion yen ($2.2 billion) from their parent companies, NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., as they form a giant semiconductor company. http://www.law360.com/articles/122495