http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Morrison & Foerster Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135297 Semiconductor maker Semtech Corp. has agreed to buy rival Sierra Monolithics Inc. for $180 million in cash, in an effort to increase its exposure to the telecommunications and defense markets. http://www.law360.com/articles/135297 http://www.law360.com/articles/135249 OraSure Technologies Inc. has agreed to hand over $3 million to Inverness Medical Switzerland GmbH and Church & Dwight Co. Inc., putting an end to a patent infringement dispute over HIV antibody tests. http://www.law360.com/articles/135249 http://www.law360.com/articles/134825 Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. has dropped claims for unfair competition and trade secrets misappropriation against Sandoz Inc. and parent company Novartis AG in a patent dispute over the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. http://www.law360.com/articles/134825 http://www.law360.com/articles/134364 Asserting that the plaintiffs have failed to allege monopolistic practices despite ample discovery time, banks and credit unions in First Data Corp.’s Star electronic payment network have asked a judge to snuff out a long-standing proposed class action accusing the companies of fixing ATM service charges. http://www.law360.com/articles/134364 http://www.law360.com/articles/134461 They possess a keen sense of urgency and are willing to go the extra mile, say the Fortune 1000 corporate counsel who make up their client base. These nine law firms are standouts in what a new legal-industry report calls “commitment to help.” http://www.law360.com/articles/134461 http://www.law360.com/articles/134471 Intellectual property lawyer Randy Kay has joined Jones Day's San Diego office from DLA Piper. http://www.law360.com/articles/134471 http://www.law360.com/articles/134460 Corporate counsel say they want a law firm that, above all else, knows their business and understands their particular objectives, according a new report. The top-ranked law firms are responding by training their attorneys to step into clients' shoes. http://www.law360.com/articles/134460 http://www.law360.com/articles/134020 Funai Electric Co Ltd. has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to bar Vizio Inc. and TPV International Inc. from presenting expert testimony on the validity of a Funai patent in a proceeding Funai brought against them to enforce an earlier exclusion order by the ITC. http://www.law360.com/articles/134020 http://www.law360.com/articles/132242 While GWLS, Chrysler and Metaldyne answered affirmatively the question of whether a collateral agent could bind minority, dissenting secured lenders, the ruling in Electroglas clarified that secured noteholders cannot credit bid their own debt without action by the indenture trustee, say G. Larry Engel, Justin L. Bastian, James J. DeCristofaro and Vincent J. Novak of Morrison & Foerster LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/132242 http://www.law360.com/articles/131879 Imported goods pose a particular challenge under the stringent federal product liability laws enacted last year, and importers now face new levels of liability in terms of ensuring product safety. Law360 spoke to experts about ways for regulators and importers to avoid obstacles posed by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, and the unique difficulties presented by China. http://www.law360.com/articles/131879 http://www.law360.com/articles/133631 Patent-holding company MHL Tek LLC’s suit will continue against major automakers including BMW AG and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. after a judge refused to throw out its sole remaining claim of infringement of a patent for tire pressure monitoring systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/133631 http://www.law360.com/articles/133307 The U.S. International Trade Commission has banned imports of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. liquid crystal display televisions, finding that they infringe valid patents held by rival Sharp Corp. and that a ban won't harm the U.S. economy. http://www.law360.com/articles/133307 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/132620 A federal judge has ordered the California Department of Health Care Services to cough up documents after siding with McKesson Corp. in a discovery battle in a proposed class action accusing the company of conspiring to inflate the average wholesale price of hundreds of drugs. http://www.law360.com/articles/132620 http://www.law360.com/articles/128666 The decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to rescind its draconian final rules represents a significant step to make the USPTO more efficient, responsive and transparent to the public, as well as to reduce the backlog of unexamined applications and improve examination efficiency and the quality of the issued patents, say Kate H. Murashige and Jenny Jih-Pin Yeh of Morrison & Foerster LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128666 http://www.law360.com/articles/131924 Former Morrison & Foerster LLP employment and labor practice co-chair Rick Bergstrom has moved over to Jones Day’s San Diego office, adding to the firm’s growing California presence. http://www.law360.com/articles/131924 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/131242 Stephen Hozie, the former chief financial officer of toppled mortgage lender American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., has failed to win access to federal regulators' discovery documents as he fights accounting fraud allegations his one-time colleagues have chosen to settle. http://www.law360.com/articles/131242 http://www.law360.com/articles/130879 Bankrupt Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. is facing a raft of objections to its proposed sale of oil and gas assets in Alaska's Cook Inlet region, a month after a bankruptcy judge gave Pacific Energy the go-ahead to abandon the facilities when no buyers initially emerged. http://www.law360.com/articles/130879 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