http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Quinn Emanuel Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134494 A federal judge has reserved his ruling on Honeywell International Inc.’s bid to dismiss bid-rigging allegations brought by its former distributor Integrated Systems and Power Inc. after hearing the parties’ arguments on Friday over competition in the fire-detection and alarm system market in New York City. http://www.law360.com/articles/134494 http://www.law360.com/articles/135123 Unsecured creditors in Idearc Inc.'s bankruptcy have settled a dispute with secured lenders over control of assets including the phone book publisher's advertising revenues and copyrights for its Yellow Pages directories, attorneys for both sides said. http://www.law360.com/articles/135123 http://www.law360.com/articles/134926 Sony Inc. has asked a federal judge to reconsider taking on a new patent enforcement action Sony is pursuing against several competitors over digital television and monitor technology, saying the case is nearly identical to two now-settled 2008 actions over which the judge presided. http://www.law360.com/articles/134926 http://www.law360.com/articles/134649 President Barack Obama has nominated a pair of female attorneys to assume the vacant commissioner positions at the Federal Trade Commission, with one hailing from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP and the other from the North Carolina Attorney General's Office. http://www.law360.com/articles/134649 http://www.law360.com/articles/134578 The bankruptcy estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has sued Barclays Capital Inc., claiming the investment division of Barclays Bank PLC improperly reaped a $5 billion windfall in breach of their asset purchase contract when it hurriedly scooped up Lehman assets last fall. http://www.law360.com/articles/134578 http://www.law360.com/articles/134519 General Electric Co. and Hospital Systems Corp., a subsidiary of patent-holding company Acacia Research Corp., have struck a deal to end GE's involvement in a lawsuit HSC brought against it and several other companies over two patents that cover a system for storing and accessing medical images. http://www.law360.com/articles/134519 http://www.law360.com/articles/134452 The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear a case brought by a group of American Indians claiming that the Washington Redskins name is offensive and disparaging and that the football team's trademark should be canceled. http://www.law360.com/articles/134452 http://www.law360.com/articles/134085 Former Refco Inc. auditor Grant Thornton LLP and outside counsel Mayer Brown LLP have moved for a second time to dismiss a fraud lawsuit brought by the trustee overseeing Refco Inc.’s bankruptcy proceedings in response to allegations that they knew about the financial firm’s massive fraud scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/134085 http://www.law360.com/articles/133071 A circuit panel has upheld a victory for ConocoPhillips Inc. over allegations of theft of data and collusion with corrupt Indonesian government officials that had allegedly netted the company $50 billion worth of oil and natural gas reserves in the Malay Archipelago. http://www.law360.com/articles/133071 http://www.law360.com/articles/132687 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has asked a bankruptcy court to modify the automatic stay for Washington Mutual Inc. to allow the agency — the receiver for WaMu's banking unit — to compel JPMorgan Chase & Co. to turn over roughly $4 billion in deposits while the three figure out to whom the money belongs. http://www.law360.com/articles/132687 http://www.law360.com/articles/132320 Ceridian Corp. has asked a judge to sanction a group of truck stop owners that filed a putative class action against it over an alleged anti-competitive scheme in which Ceridian unit Comdata Corp. supposedly charged independent outfits like the plaintiffs inflated fees to process Trucker Fleet Card transactions. http://www.law360.com/articles/132320 http://www.law360.com/articles/131953 Semiconductor company Emcore Corp. has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to exclude the testimony of a patent expert provided by rival Avago Technologies Ltd., arguing that it would be “unhelpful and unnecessary” to the case over whether Emcore imported optoelectronic devices that infringe Avago's patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/131953 http://www.law360.com/articles/132105 Winston & Strawn LLP has reportedly pushed back the start date for incoming associates again, citing budget concerns in its decision to have new associates start in three groups throughout 2010. http://www.law360.com/articles/132105 http://www.law360.com/articles/131404 The United Kingdom's highest court ruled Thursday that the remaining assets of failed structured investment vehicle Sigma Finance Corp. should be spread equally among its creditors, a decision that participants in the case say could have a dramatic effect on so-called waterfall clauses in other bankruptcy cases. http://www.law360.com/articles/131404 http://www.law360.com/articles/131289 Sony Corp. and AmTran Technology Co. Ltd. have reached a confidential settlement in a dispute over three AmTran patents related to television and PC monitor technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/131289 http://www.law360.com/articles/130914 Vizio Inc. and Sony Corp. have reached a settlement in an infringement dispute over patents related to digital television technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/130914 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/130121 New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has asked a federal court to send an auction rate securities fraud suit against Charles Schwab Co. Inc. back to state court, saying the company improperly characterized the state of New York as a nominal party in the suit in a bid to change jurisdictions. http://www.law360.com/articles/130121 http://www.law360.com/articles/129746 The CEO of Parmalat SpA has appealed a federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that auditing firm Grant Thornton International helped Parmalat insiders orchestrate a massive securities fraud that ultimately led to the Italian dairy giant's 2003 bankruptcy. http://www.law360.com/articles/129746 http://www.law360.com/articles/129517 Motorola Inc. has reached an agreement with Stragent LLC to resolve the patent-holding company's claims that the technology giant infringed a patent related to online messaging, making Motorola the latest of a slew of defendants to exit the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/129517