http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: MasterCard Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135405 A federal judge has declined to allow Wells Fargo Retail Finance — as a secured creditor to certain bankrupt class members — to participate in a multibillion-dollar retailer antitrust settlement with Visa USA Inc. and MasterCard International Inc., saying that the lender was too late in filing its claim. http://www.law360.com/articles/135405 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/132033 Two days after launching Europe's single payments area direct debit system, the European Commission asked for comments Tuesday on its draft guidance to banks and credit card companies on interchange fees to make sure that any collective financing agreements don't violate competition rules. http://www.law360.com/articles/132033 http://www.law360.com/articles/130048 Patent-holding company Actus LLC has dropped its claims against Google Inc. in a lawsuit against nearly two dozen technology companies over patents related to an electronic payment system. http://www.law360.com/articles/130048 http://www.law360.com/articles/129960 A $336 million settlement a class of consumers reached with credit card companies and banks accused of breaching federal and state antitrust laws by colluding to fix foreign currency fees has been granted approval by a federal judge, three years after the defendants put the money away in escrow to repay the plaintiffs. http://www.law360.com/articles/129960 http://www.law360.com/articles/129451 Following in the footsteps of numerous other banks, Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries have reached a truce with TQP Development LLC in a patent infringement suit over technology for online encrypted data transmissions. http://www.law360.com/articles/129451 http://www.law360.com/articles/129267 The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and two of its subsidiaries have become the latest defendants to reach a settlement with TQP Development LLC in one of its ongoing and wide-ranging patent infringement suits over technology governing online encrypted data transmissions. http://www.law360.com/articles/129267 http://www.law360.com/articles/128217 Every Penny Counts Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve what the patent-holding company claims is ongoing confusion over the application of the high court's 1996 ruling in Markman v. Westview Instruments, which EPC argues is reflected in two cases it is pursuing against credit card companies and gift card issuers. http://www.law360.com/articles/128217 http://www.law360.com/articles/126832 TQP Development LLC has reached a settlement agreement with Capital One Financial Corp. and two subsidiaries, potentially releasing the group from one of several ongoing and wide-ranging patent infringement suits over a TQP technology governing online encrypted data transmissions. http://www.law360.com/articles/126832 http://www.law360.com/articles/125913 TQP Development LLC has dropped ING Groep NV from an ongoing patent infringement lawsuit accusing a slew of major companies — including Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. MetLife Inc., Apple Inc. and eBay Inc. — of infringing its online encrypted data transmission method. http://www.law360.com/articles/125913 http://www.law360.com/articles/124253 Credit card giants Visa Europe Ltd. and MasterCard Inc. have been fined by the Hungarian Competition Authority for allegedly conspiring with the country's major commercial banks to fix interchange fees. http://www.law360.com/articles/124253 http://www.law360.com/articles/123029 Sonic Solutions has become the latest in a string of defendants to settle with Actus LLC, a patent-holding company that accused nearly two dozen entities of infringing four patents related to an electronic payment system. http://www.law360.com/articles/123029 http://www.law360.com/articles/122793 Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., Apple Inc. and Exxon Mobil Corp. are among a slew of major companies that have been sued by TQP Development LLC, alleging infringement of a patent related to an online encrypted data transmission method. http://www.law360.com/articles/122793 http://www.law360.com/articles/120358 TJX Cos. Inc. has agreed to pay $525,000 to dismiss a putative class action filed by financial institutions related to the 2005 and 2006 data breach that exposed up to 100 million credit and debit card numbers to hackers, the company said Wednesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/120358 http://www.law360.com/articles/118122 The New Zealand Commerce Commission and MasterCard International Inc. have signed an agreement to settle claims that the company's domestic interchange fee structure violated New Zealand competition laws, with MasterCard agreeing to pay $3 million of the commission's costs in bringing the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/118122 http://www.law360.com/articles/112298 Once payroll cards are better understood and are recognized as a component of a larger paperless wage payment program, they will be seen as an effective solution to many of today’s wage delivery problems, says Cathy S. Beyda of Margolis & Tisman LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/112298 http://www.law360.com/articles/116866 American Express Co. and American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. have reached an agreement with TQP Development LLC ending the credit card company's part in TQP's suit accusing nearly two dozen banks and several major credit card companies of infringing its patent related to an online encrypted data transmission method. http://www.law360.com/articles/116866 http://www.law360.com/articles/115430 Italy’s competition watchdog has reportedly extended by three months a probe into whether Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo SpA failed to comply with antitrust procedures in relation to shareholder pacts. http://www.law360.com/articles/115430 http://www.law360.com/articles/114686 Italy's antitrust enforcer has launched a probe of MasterCard Inc. and eight banks — including the Italian units of Barclays PLC, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank AG — over suspicions that agreements on interchange fees may run afoul of the European Union's regulations on restrictive business practices. http://www.law360.com/articles/114686 http://www.law360.com/articles/114243 Amazon.com Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have settled with TQP Development LLC in litigation accusing nearly two dozen banks, several major credit card companies and others of infringing a patent related to an online encrypted data transmission method. http://www.law360.com/articles/114243