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1. Best Buy, Others Face Patent Suit Over Gift Cards

Thursday, Mar 18, 2010

A Texas patent-holding company has taken a swipe at a number of major retailers — including Best Buy Co. Inc. and The Home Depot Inc. — over a pair of gift card patents.

2. Del. Poison Pill Ruling May Spark New Ways To Defend

Friday, Mar 12, 2010

A landmark decision from the Delaware Chancery Court validating an increasingly popular version of a poison pill could potentially help boards of directors make a case for new takeover defense tactics down the road, attorneys say.

3. AT&T, Home Depot Sued Over Ethernet Patents

Thursday, Mar 11, 2010

AT&T Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., Home Depot USA Inc. and several other retailers have been accused of infringing four Ethernet technology patents that U.S. Ethernet Innovations LLC purchased from networking giant 3Com Corp.

4. American Equity Settles SEC Proxy Disclosure Claims

Thursday, Mar 04, 2010

American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. and two of its executives have settled U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that they misled investors by failing to disclose certain material information about an investment services company the underwriter acquired.

5. Rest Of Copyright Suit Over Beatles Photos Gets Boot

Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010

A federal judge has tossed the remaining claims in a memorabilia seller's suit accusing a slew of publishers and retailers — including Amazon.com Inc. and Barnes & Noble Inc. — of infringing a copyright for photographs of rock 'n' roll icons The Beatles to promote books and DVDs.

6. Citizen Can Sue Exxon For Cleanup Costs: Judge

Monday, Feb 22, 2010

A federal judge has declined to reconsider an order denying Exxon Mobil Corp.'s bid to toss a Louisiana landowner's damages claim for groundwater cleanup, rejecting the oil giant's argument that state law precludes citizens from reaping money for restoring a state-owned resource.

7. CAT Goes On Prowl Again Over Gift Card Patent

Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010

Patent-holding company Card Activation Technologies Inc. has slapped nine retailers — including Macy's Inc., Blockbuster Inc. and Starbucks Corp. — with a lawsuit accusing them of deliberately infringing a patent covering a method for processing debit transactions with a countertop terminal.

8. Vivendi Dropped From Payment Method Patent Suit

Wednesday, Jan 27, 2010

Vivendi Universal SA has become the latest to exit Actus LLC's patent enforcement litigation over electronic methods for processing payments.

9. Class Cert. Denied In Barnes & Noble Meal Break Case

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010

An attorney for a would-be class of current and former assistant managers who allege that Barnes & Noble Booksellers Inc. failed to pay them overtime or provide required meal and rest breaks has said he will challenge a judge's decision to reject the plaintiff's class certification bid.

10. USPowerGen Founder Joins Bingham As Partner

Thursday, Jan 21, 2010

Jacob Worenklein, the founder of U.S. Power Generating Co., has joined Bingham McCutchen LLP as a corporate partner in the firm's New York office.

11. Gulfport Wins Dismissal Of Suit Over Rights Offering

Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010

A Delaware judge has thrown out a shareholder derivative suit alleging Gulfport Energy Corp.’s directors engineered a rights offering at an artificially low price in order to trigger certain provisions allowing them to acquire stock at better terms than other investors.

12. US Bancorp, Others Settle In Online Payment IP Suit

Wednesday, Jan 06, 2010

Actus LLC has reached settlements with Barnes & Noble Inc. and U.S. Bancorp, further winnowing the patent-holding company's infringement suit over technology for electronic payment systems.

13. Ex-Deloitte Partner Liable For Insider Trades: Court

Tuesday, Jan 05, 2010

Deloitte LLP has made major headway in its insider trading lawsuit against a former partner, winning summary judgment on the issue of liability and leaving only the amount of damages for trial.

14. Noble Energy Nabs Suncor Reserves For $494M

Tuesday, Jan 05, 2010

Continuing to expand its onshore operations, Noble Energy Inc. has reached a deal to buy virtually all of Suncor Energy Inc.’s oil and natural gas reserves in northeastern Colorado for $494 million.

15. Energy Cases To Watch In 2010

Friday, Jan 01, 2010

Of all the energy cases to watch in 2010, the most important ones may be the ones not yet filed, energy litigation experts told Law360.

16. Barnes & Noble Can Release Disputed Nook E-Reader

Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009

California technology company Spring Design Inc. has lost its bid to halt the release of Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook e-reader, with a federal judge ruling that Spring has not sufficiently proven that the bookstore giant used Spring's confidential information to develop its new dual-screen device.

17. CBOE Settles Ownership Rights Appeals For $2M

Tuesday, Dec 01, 2009

The Chicago Board Options Exchange has agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle the outstanding appeals blocking the final approval of the larger settlement — potentially worth as much as $1 billion — of its protracted litigation with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group's Chicago Board of Trade, clearing the latest roadblock on the CBOE's path to becoming a publicly traded firm.

18. Spring Seeks To Halt Barnes & Noble Nook Release

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009

California technology company Spring Design Inc. has urged a federal judge to block the release of Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook e-reader scheduled for the end of November, claiming that the bookstore giant violated a nondisclosure agreement by using Spring's confidential design information to develop its new device.

19. Barnes & Noble Accused Of Stealing E-Reader Design

Tuesday, Nov 03, 2009

California technology company Spring Design Inc. has accused Barnes & Noble Inc. of stealing its design for a new e-book device and incorporating the features into the Nook e-reader the company announced last month.

20. Actus, Google Drop Electronic Payment Patent Suit

Friday, Oct 23, 2009

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.