http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Kaye Scholer Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134073 Citing the complex nature of the case, a federal judge has proposed appointing Michael K. Rozen of Feinberg Rozen LLP as special master to preside over the massive Chinese-made drywall product liability litigation. http://www.law360.com/articles/134073 http://www.law360.com/articles/133189 Robert Bell, formerly of WilmerHale LLP, has joined Kaye Scholer LLP's Washington office as the new co-chair for the firm's entire antitrust division. http://www.law360.com/articles/133189 http://www.law360.com/articles/133211 The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take on Every Penny Counts Inc.'s appeal of a claims construction ruling that the company claimed misapplied the high court's 1996 ruling in Markman v. Westview Instruments. http://www.law360.com/articles/133211 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/133130 IMA-Hong Kong Ltd. and Spectra Merchandising International Inc. have become the latest portable electronics companies to settle with Tsera LLC in its infringement suit over a patent covering touch pad technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/133130 http://www.law360.com/articles/132288 Tsera LLC has settled patent infringement claims with seven portable electronics makers the company had accused of stealing its touch pad technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/132288 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/131368 International law firm Kaye Scholer LLP is splitting its class of incoming first-year associates, assigning roughly half the class to work exclusively with the firm's public interest law group. http://www.law360.com/articles/131368 http://www.law360.com/articles/130621 Portable music player maker Lasonic Electronics Corp. has become the second audio equipment company to settle in Tsera LLC's patent infringement suit accusing more than two dozen companies of stealing touch pad technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/130621 http://www.law360.com/articles/129028 The New York Intellectual Property Law Association has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of the Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. patent suit — which could make patents easier to prosecute and tougher to invalidate — saying the court should look to the enablement requirement to settle the case. http://www.law360.com/articles/129028 http://www.law360.com/articles/128434 Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP's newest partner, former McDermott Will & Emery LLP intellectual property attorney Robert Greenfeld, says he prefers a more intimate professional setting. http://www.law360.com/articles/128434 http://www.law360.com/articles/123918 If plaintiffs in the Refco securities litigation succeed in appealing the dismissal of Mayer Brown LLP and one of its lawyers from the case, securities lawyers arguing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit may find themselves liable for statements they wrote anonymously. http://www.law360.com/articles/123918 http://www.law360.com/articles/127480 Monsanto Co. has received inquiries about competition in the seed industry from the U.S. Department of Justice that stem from antitrust allegations raised by rival DuPont Co. as part of its defense against Monsanto’s patent infringement suit over technology for herbicide-resistant genetically modified soybeans and corn. http://www.law360.com/articles/127480 http://www.law360.com/articles/123920 In a case that could make patents easier to prosecute and tougher to invalidate, a federal appeals court is gearing up for an en banc rehearing of Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s patent infringement fight against Eli Lilly & Co. over osteoporosis drug Evista and septic shock treatment Xigris. http://www.law360.com/articles/123920 http://www.law360.com/articles/126368 Auditek Corp. has become the first defendant to settle a patent infringement suit brought by Tsera LLC over touch pad technology, leaving behind a crowd of big-name defendants including Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/126368 http://www.law360.com/articles/124772 Plaintiffs are seeking to obtain class status in a multidistrict litigation accusing Pfizer Inc. and its Warner-Lambert Co. subsidiary of using patent litigation to postpone generic competition for epilepsy treatment Neurontin. http://www.law360.com/articles/124772 http://www.law360.com/articles/124880 Echostar Satellite LLC, DirecTV Group Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc. and CSC Holdings Inc. have won their bid for summary judgment of invalidity on five patents related to audio and video transmission technology in a multidistrict infringement suit brought by Acacia Media Technologies Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/124880 http://www.law360.com/articles/124601 Senate Democrats reportedly will introduce a bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions Sept. 30, though some political insiders say it's unlikely a bill would pass before December's international summit on climate change in Copenhagen. http://www.law360.com/articles/124601 http://www.law360.com/articles/123462 A federal judge will allow Monsanto Co. to sever nemesis DuPont Co.'s antitrust counterclaims from the agricultural giant's original patent and breach of contract suit alleging infringement of the technology behind its herbicide-resistant genetically modified soybeans and corn. http://www.law360.com/articles/123462 http://www.law360.com/articles/123465 Subsidiaries of London-based AstraZeneca PLC have been dismissed from several suits alleging Stryker Corp.’s anesthetic delivery system and several companies’ injectable painkillers caused thousands of patients to suffer cartilage damage. http://www.law360.com/articles/123465