http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: King & Spalding Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135386 Business and intellectual property trial lawyer Timothy G. Barber, formerly head of the patent litigation team at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC, has joined King & Spalding LLP as a partner in the firm’s Charlotte, N.C., office. http://www.law360.com/articles/135386 http://www.law360.com/articles/134909 The U.S. Court of International Trade has issued an opinion disposing of a suit filed by Papierfabrik August Koehler AG over anti-dumping duties imposed on German thermal paper while rejecting its bid for judgment on the record of the U.S. International Trade Commission. http://www.law360.com/articles/134909 http://www.law360.com/articles/134827 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG has settled a suit it filed against Norbrook Laboratories Ltd. claiming the veterinary pharmaceutical company infringed a patent for Metacam when seeking approval for a generic version of the canine anti-inflammatory. http://www.law360.com/articles/134827 http://www.law360.com/articles/134540 A circuit panel has ruled that certain employees of the city of Atlanta are entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit accusing the city and a Clear Channel Communications Inc. subsidiary of bid-rigging contracts for the advertising displays at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. http://www.law360.com/articles/134540 http://www.law360.com/articles/134347 King & Spalding LLP has added bankruptcy litigation veteran Harris B. Winsberg, recently of Troutman Sanders LLP, as a partner to the firm's financial restructuring practice group in its Atlanta offices. http://www.law360.com/articles/134347 http://www.law360.com/articles/134057 They are said to look down their noses at litigation deemed too simple, charge steep fees and give off an aura of haughtiness in court. Eight firms were mentioned most by Fortune 1000 corporate counsel when asked which law firms are most arrogant, according to a new report. http://www.law360.com/articles/134057 http://www.law360.com/articles/134029 Spansion Inc. has recommended that the U.S. International Trade Commission dismiss an investigation brought by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. into flash memory devices in light of a bankruptcy judge's order staying the case. http://www.law360.com/articles/134029 http://www.law360.com/articles/132466 Najarian Furniture Co. Inc. has lost a bid to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection from reliquidating imports of Chinese furniture at a new, higher rate, despite a federal judge's determination that the Department of Commerce may have reassessed the rate arbitrarily to correct a previous mathematical error. http://www.law360.com/articles/132466 http://www.law360.com/articles/132134 The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, a case involving two men convicted of a 1977 murder on bogus evidence that will determine whether prosecutors' immunity extends to their pretrial investigations. http://www.law360.com/articles/132134 http://www.law360.com/articles/130694 China's practice of understating the value of its currency is a contentious subject with deep political, economic and trade implications. Some experts say that issues of currency are best left up to the White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, but with top officials so far declining to take definitive action on exchange rates, other players have looked for new ways to apply pressure on China. http://www.law360.com/articles/130694 http://www.law360.com/articles/132036 The American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade has wedged itself into an anti-dumping dispute over wooden bedroom furniture from China, arguing that importer Najarian Furniture Co. Inc. is seeking an improper windfall through an injunction on duties. http://www.law360.com/articles/132036 http://www.law360.com/articles/132042 Private equity firm TPG Capital has purchased a majority stake in natural gas services company Valerus Compression Services LLP for $500 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/132042 http://www.law360.com/articles/124117 Globalization has caused international contracts to become increasingly standardized, but there are still major regional differences that can serve as pitfalls for lawyers, according to experts from around the globe. http://www.law360.com/articles/124117 http://www.law360.com/articles/131141 Technology company Qimonda AG has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to review a determination issued earlier this month finding one Qimonda patent invalid, and ruling that Seagate Technology and LSI Corp. had not infringed three other Qimonda patents by importing semiconductor integrated circuit chips. http://www.law360.com/articles/131141 http://www.law360.com/articles/129923 An investigative magistrate judge in Paris has decided to press criminal charges against former Vivendi SA CEO Jean-Marie Messier and six others accused of misleading investors and manipulating stock prices, the company said Thursday. http://www.law360.com/articles/129923 http://www.law360.com/articles/129748 A coalition of domestic furniture manufacturers has secured an injunction preventing the liquidation of duty entries on wooden bedroom furniture imported from China in 2007. http://www.law360.com/articles/129748 http://www.law360.com/articles/129641 DuPont Co. and Makhteshim Agan of North America Inc. have reached a licensing deal for DuPont crop protection patents and resolved a lawsuit in which Makhteshim Agan sought a declaration that a DuPont patent was invalid. http://www.law360.com/articles/129641 http://www.law360.com/articles/129120 Five 2009 appellate securities decisions focusing on loss causation foretell the difficulties plaintiffs will face proving that fraud — instead of market forces or other negative but nonfraud factors — was the principal cause of their losses, especially given industrywide declines in share values for financial institutions, say Michael R. Smith and William O.L. Hutchinson of King & Spalding LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/129120 http://www.law360.com/articles/129518 The U.S. Department of Commerce has raised countervailing duties against Chinese welded pipe exporters, having determined on remand that it erred in its calculation of duties against Huludao Steel Pipe Industrial Co. Ltd. and several affiliates. http://www.law360.com/articles/129518 http://www.law360.com/articles/128957 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has revived a mass tort that accuses dozens of oil and chemical companies of adding to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina through their emissions of greenhouse gases, a decision that comes less than a month after the Second Circuit breathed new life into a similar mass tort. http://www.law360.com/articles/128957