http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Noble Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/133791 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. http://www.law360.com/articles/133791 http://www.law360.com/articles/132071 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. http://www.law360.com/articles/132071 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/127162 Inventor Leon Stambler has launched another expansive infringement suit against a slew of retailers — including Target Corp., Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. — accusing them of violating two patents related to keeping information secure during online transactions. http://www.law360.com/articles/127162 http://www.law360.com/articles/125340 A federal judge has granted conditional certification to a class of recruiters in a collective action against U.S. Army recruiting company Serco Inc., overriding the company's claim that it misunderstood the proposed class definition. http://www.law360.com/articles/125340 http://www.law360.com/articles/125065 Exxon Mobil Corp. has asked a federal judge to toss a Louisiana landowner's claim for damages to clean groundwater allegedly tainted by the oil giant, contending that citizens can't reap money for restoring a state-owned resource. http://www.law360.com/articles/125065 http://www.law360.com/articles/124796 Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Cordis Corp. has appealed a $22 million verdict for Spectralytics Inc. in a patent infringement dispute between the medical device makers over a stent-cutting machine, on the heels of Cordis' victory in another stent patent suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/124796 http://www.law360.com/articles/124471 Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. have been dropped from Actus LLC's wide-ranging patent infringement suit over four patents related to electronic payment systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/124471 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/122065 Noble Energy Inc. may soon be sailing out of the North Sea, having put its European subsidiary on the market in an effort to divest assets some analysts have valued at $600 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/122065 http://www.law360.com/articles/120209 The Delaware Chancery Court has awarded class counsel $750,000 — roughly half of what the firms initially requested — for representing Countrywide Financial Corp. shareholders in a settled suit over Bank of America Corp.’s $4 billion takeover of the mortgage underwriter. http://www.law360.com/articles/120209 http://www.law360.com/articles/119812 Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., now a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America Corp., has reportedly won approval of a settlement in a suit brought by shareholders hoping to halt the merger. http://www.law360.com/articles/119812 http://www.law360.com/articles/119503 Bank of America Corp. and another defendant have reached a settlement 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/119503 http://www.law360.com/articles/118416 A Delaware Chancery Court judge has approved a settlement between Countrywide Financial Corp. and its shareholders, who alleged executives at the nation's former largest residential mortgage underwriter breached their fiduciary duty in connection with Bank of America Corp.'s $4 billion takeover of the company. http://www.law360.com/articles/118416 http://www.law360.com/articles/118112 Actus LLC has dropped all claims against Marketing Technology Concepts Inc. in its wide-ranging patent infringement suit targeting more than a dozen firms — including Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., eBay Inc. and American Express Co. — over four patents Actus holds related to electronic payment systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/118112 http://www.law360.com/articles/115637 Online gaming network WildTangent Inc. is the first defendant to reach a settlement with patent-holding company Actus LLC in a suit that accuses nearly two dozen entities of infringing four patents related to an electronic payment system. http://www.law360.com/articles/115637 http://www.law360.com/articles/114873 An Acacia Research Corp. subsidiary has settled with several major companies, including Chevron USA, Tiffany & Co., Avis Budget Group Inc., Bose Corp., Guitar Center Stores Inc. and Guess Inc., in ongoing litigation concerning a patent aimed at protecting consumers from financial fraud. http://www.law360.com/articles/114873 http://www.law360.com/articles/115233 A unit of energy and commodities trader Noble Group Ltd. will pay $65.35 million for some assets of SemGroup LP after winning a bankruptcy auction. http://www.law360.com/articles/115233 http://www.law360.com/articles/113725 A federal court has ruled in favor of defendant Maersk Contractors USA Inc. in patent litigation with Transocean Inc., finding that dual-activity offshore drilling technology patented by Transocean is the result of years of progress in the industry and not, as the company claims, its own invention. http://www.law360.com/articles/113725 http://www.law360.com/articles/113214 Illinois Computer Research LLC has dropped its intellectual property suit against Sony Electronics Inc. over an electronic book patent ICR bought from a former Fish & Richardson PC partner at the center of a legal firestorm over his intellectual property portfolio. http://www.law360.com/articles/113214