http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Irell & Manella Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134284 Following the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to partially review an initial determination that several technology companies did not infringe three Tessera semiconductor chip packaging patents, interested third party PowerASE Technology Inc. has asked the commission to refrain from issuing a general exclusion order for all infringing products. http://www.law360.com/articles/134284 http://www.law360.com/articles/132779 The founders of Skype Ltd. have laid down their swords in a battle over eBay Inc.'s $2.75 billion sale of the majority of Skype to a group of private investors, agreeing to drop an intellectual property suit and other litigation in exchange for a stake in the Internet telephony company. http://www.law360.com/articles/132779 http://www.law360.com/articles/131994 The plaintiffs and several defendants in derivative litigation over an alleged $2.2 billion stock options backdating scheme at semiconductor maker Broadcom Corp. have asked a federal judge for final approval of a partial settlement deal under which the company would collect $118 million from insurers. http://www.law360.com/articles/131994 http://www.law360.com/articles/131716 The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to review parts of an administrative law judge's initial determination that Acer Inc. and a host of other dynamic random access memory manufacturers did not infringe three Tessera semiconductor chip packaging patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/131716 http://www.law360.com/articles/130719 TiVo Inc. and EchoStar Corp. will face off in front of a federal appeals court panel over a district court decision that hit EchoStar with $200 million in sanctions for continuing to infringe a TiVo patent with its redesigned digital video recorder technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/130719 http://www.law360.com/articles/131490 The Flintkote Co.'s suit against Aviva Insurance Co. of Canada to recover for asbestos-related personal injury suits will continue following a judge's refusal to issue summary judgment for the bankrupt asbestos-mining company. http://www.law360.com/articles/131490 http://www.law360.com/articles/130653 Plaintiffs counsel Keller Rohrback LLP and Braun Law Group PC have asked a judge to award about $14 million in fees and expenses in a class action accusing Countrywide Financial Corp. of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act in its treatment of a 401(k) plan. http://www.law360.com/articles/130653 http://www.law360.com/articles/129358 After four years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, Marshall Camp has returned to Irell & Manella LLP as special counsel focusing on complex commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense matters. http://www.law360.com/articles/129358 http://www.law360.com/articles/126864 A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss patent claims against Skype Technologies SA and parent company eBay Inc. relating to uniform network technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/126864 http://www.law360.com/articles/126391 Two weeks after Intel Corp. came out on the short end of a key pretrial ruling in a data patent feud with a research arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the computer chip giant and the university have announced a confidential settlement. http://www.law360.com/articles/126391 http://www.law360.com/articles/125597 A federal appeals court has reversed and remanded a lower court's ruling forbidding statements made by semiconductor maker Broadcom Corp.'s former chief financial officer during an audit of the company to be used against him at his upcoming trial on criminal backdating charges. http://www.law360.com/articles/125597 http://www.law360.com/articles/124830 Acer Inc. and a host of other dynamic random access memory manufacturers are urging the U.S. International Trade Commission to ignore Tessera Inc.'s request for review of an administrative law judge's initial determination that they did not infringe three Tessera semiconductor chip packaging patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/124830 http://www.law360.com/articles/124289 A federal judge's botched claim construction has led to a new trial in Avago Technologies Ltd.'s long-running patent case against Elan Microelectronics Corp. over optical mouse sensor technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/124289 http://www.law360.com/articles/124207 A federal judge on Wednesday refused Intel Corp.'s bid for reconsideration of part of an earlier summary judgment decision in a dispute with plaintiff Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation over the group's data patent, ruling that the court had not nixed the technology giant's anticipation counterclaims. http://www.law360.com/articles/124207 http://www.law360.com/articles/123444 Tessera Inc. and several dynamic random access memory manufacturers have asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to review an administrative law judge's initial determination that the manufacturers did not infringe three Tessera semiconductor chip packaging patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/123444 http://www.law360.com/articles/123243 A federal judge has rejected Intel Corp.'s bid for summary judgment on grounds of invalidity and upheld plaintiff Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's claim that it never expressly granted the chip giant a license to use university intellectual property in a court fight over a data patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/123243 http://www.law360.com/articles/122087 A federal judge has ruled that Veoh Networks Inc., which operates the Veoh video-sharing software and Web site, is entitled to safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is not liable for monetary or injunctive relief to Universal Music Group entities that had sued it for copyright infringement. http://www.law360.com/articles/122087 http://www.law360.com/articles/121652 Abbott Laboratories has asked a judge to throw out four recently amended complaints filed by pharmacies, wholesale direct drug purchasers and rival drug manufacturers alleging Abbott illegally jacked up the prices of its market-dominating HIV drugs, calling the complaints “a vain attempt to plead around” recent antitrust case law. http://www.law360.com/articles/121652 http://www.law360.com/articles/121285 A federal appeals court has rejected a bid by Spansion Inc. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. to stay a limited exclusion and a cease-and-desist order, issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission in May, related to semiconductor chip patents asserted by Tessera Technologies Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/121285 http://www.law360.com/articles/120795 TiVo Inc. has succeeded in convincing a judge to levy nearly $200 million in contempt sanctions against Dish Network Corp. for violating a court-mandated injunction, bringing TiVo’s total award in its patent infringement suit to roughly $400 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/120795