http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Orrick Herrington Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132739 A judge has certified a securities class action accusing circuit board maker Merix Inc. and its officers of misleading investors in connection with a 2004 stock offering, though he has approved a more limited class than the plaintiffs wanted. http://www.law360.com/articles/132739 http://www.law360.com/articles/132353 A federal appellate court has affirmed a lower court's decision to toss France-based Vivendi SA's lawsuit alleging that Deutsche Telekom AG and T-Mobile International AG colluded to take control of a Polish wireless telephone company. http://www.law360.com/articles/132353 http://www.law360.com/articles/131716 The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to review parts of an administrative law judge's initial determination that Acer Inc. and a host of other dynamic random access memory manufacturers did not infringe three Tessera semiconductor chip packaging patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/131716 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/131544 A federal judge has denied class certification in a suit brought by a former Gap Inc. employee alleging that the clothing retailer required workers to purchase and wear Gap clothes at work in violation of the New York Labor Code. http://www.law360.com/articles/131544 http://www.law360.com/articles/131539 LG Electronics Inc. has agreed not to oppose requests from Westinghouse Digital Electronics LLC and Vizio Inc. to stay LG's patent infringement suit over digital television technology while the U.S. International Trade Commission considers a related case over some of the same patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/131539 http://www.law360.com/articles/131460 Tyco Health Care Group LP has received another boost in its battle with Masimo Corp. over alleged market manipulation of pulse oximetry products, with an appeals court affirming an order vacating a jury’s findings of liability as to the health care conglomerate’s bundling agreements. http://www.law360.com/articles/131460 http://www.law360.com/articles/131314 The U.S. International Trade Commission announced Thursday that it would investigate whether Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has been importing ceramic capacitors that infringe four Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/131314 http://www.law360.com/articles/131164 A protracted patent dispute between the University of Pittsburgh and Varian Medical Systems Inc. over patents related to radiation therapy may take another trip back to a federal appeals court, as Pitt has objected to a district court's judgment that barred it from filing a new complaint. http://www.law360.com/articles/131164 http://www.law360.com/articles/128352 While the economic downturn has caused hardship for many law firms and lawyers, the hard times have also sparked entrepreneurship, with attorneys striking out on their own and forming boutiques. http://www.law360.com/articles/128352 http://www.law360.com/articles/130871 Plaintiffs have appealed a district court's decision not to enforce an Indian tribal court's $1.8 billion judgment against casino giant Harrah's Operating Co. Inc. in a spat over casino development, finding the case had already been resolved by a binding oral agreement. http://www.law360.com/articles/130871 http://www.law360.com/articles/123725 This term, the U.S. Supreme Court is taking on a host of major criminal cases, including litigation that focuses on the scope of a statute that has been instrumental for the government in bringing corporate fraud and public corruption suits and another case that questions whether individuals considered to be sexually dangerous can be detained after serving their prison sentences. http://www.law360.com/articles/123725 http://www.law360.com/articles/130560 The five high-powered firms to which Thelen LLP's partners defected effectively purchased the now-defunct firm's business and are therefore liable to its laid-off employees under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the ex-staffers have argued. http://www.law360.com/articles/130560 http://www.law360.com/articles/130185 A federal judge has dismissed antitrust counterclaims brought by Power.com against Facebook Inc., although he will allow the smaller company to replead as it looks to fight off allegations of copyright and trademark infringement. http://www.law360.com/articles/130185 http://www.law360.com/articles/130029 After years of litigation between Mattel Inc. and MGA Entertainment Inc. over who owns the copyright to the Bratz dolls, a Brooklyn, N.Y., artist is now claiming that he is actually the brains behind the much-disputed doll designs. http://www.law360.com/articles/130029 http://www.law360.com/articles/129841 In a win for Dow Chemical Co., a federal judge has ruled that it can appeal her finding that a bankruptcy court erred by barring Trace International Holdings Inc.'s Chapter 7 trustee from arguing that payments Trace made to Dow were dividends instead of liabilities. http://www.law360.com/articles/129841 http://www.law360.com/articles/128999 General Electric Co. and SonoSite Inc. have worked out a $21 million settlement and a royalty deal in their dispute over a SonoSite patent for lightweight ultrasound machines, resolving litigation in Wisconsin and Germany, as well as a federal appeals court. http://www.law360.com/articles/128999 http://www.law360.com/articles/128922 Seagate Technology LLC has asked a judge to halt National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh's bid to send a dispute between the firms over the reimbursement of $9 million in patent litigation costs to arbitration, saying the insurer has no right to do so after allegedly breaching the payment agreement that would allow the move. http://www.law360.com/articles/128922 http://www.law360.com/articles/128974 A putative class of consumers has hit First Data Corp. and the banks in its ATM network with an amended antitrust complaint alleging a conspiracy to fix interchange fees, this time saying consumers can't escape the "supracompetitive" fees by taking their business elsewhere. http://www.law360.com/articles/128974 http://www.law360.com/articles/128787 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has amended its options backdating suit against three former executives of Mercury Interactive LLC following a judge's ruling that many of the agency’s claims were too vague, including all fraud allegations against the software company’s ex-general counsel. http://www.law360.com/articles/128787