http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Saint-Gobain Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132547 The U.S. Court of International Trade has refused to stay anti-dumping duty orders on diamond saw blades from China and Korea, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has agreed to the stay pending an appeal. http://www.law360.com/articles/132547 http://www.law360.com/articles/128722 A federal appeals court has opted not to revisit its ruling in a retaliation case from a former Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. employee, overriding three judges who consider the court’s interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act's anti-retaliation statute illogically narrow. http://www.law360.com/articles/128722 http://www.law360.com/articles/127129 Foreign manufacturers are appealing an order by the U.S. Court of International Trade compelling the government to issue anti-dumping duty orders on diamond saw blades from China and Korea. http://www.law360.com/articles/127129 http://www.law360.com/articles/112334 A federal appeals court has upheld the construction and validity of a patent claim for a refrigerator shelf, rejecting Saint-Gobain Corp.'s efforts to overturn a permanent injunction won by appliance component maker Gemtron Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/112334 http://www.law360.com/articles/109723 The European Commission has confirmed that it conducted unannounced inspections in the special glass sector on suspicions that several companies have been running an illegal cartel. http://www.law360.com/articles/109723 http://www.law360.com/articles/109275 Widening the split among the federal appeals courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled that a purely verbal complaint is not an activity shielded under the retaliation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. http://www.law360.com/articles/109275 http://www.law360.com/articles/104273 Just over a month after the suit was filed, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. has agreed to settle a class action by employees who claim they were required to work during meal breaks and were subjected to other Fair Labor Standards Act violations. http://www.law360.com/articles/104273 http://www.law360.com/articles/102077 A federal judge has slashed over $7 million from a $52.3 million damages award granted to a Siemens AG unit in a patent infringement suit against a Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA subsidiary over a patent on medical-imaging scanner technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/102077 http://www.law360.com/articles/97796 The board of regents of the University of Nebraska Medical Center has sued a unit of health care technology giant Siemens AG for allegedly infringing two laboratory testing patents that the school has licensed to Abbott Laboratories Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/97796 http://www.law360.com/articles/90964 Italy's antitrust watchdog has launched a probe into a Saint-Gobain SA unit in the country after a complaint from a would-be competitor accused the plasterboard manufacturer of blocking entry into the market for the construction material. http://www.law360.com/articles/90964 http://www.law360.com/articles/88101 Australia and South Africa may now join the ranks of countries that impose criminal penalties for antitrust violations. This is part of an international trend, as nations on five continents now follow the U.S. approach of criminally prosecuting individuals — and corporations — for the most serious antitrust offenses, say Hugh M. Hollman, Chris Ahern and Steven W. Fleming of Jones Day. http://www.law360.com/articles/88101 http://www.law360.com/articles/76680 Europe's competition watchdog said Thursday that it had carried out unannounced inspections in France along with the country's antitrust officials on two unnamed organizations in the biomedical analysis market. http://www.law360.com/articles/76680 http://www.law360.com/articles/76523 Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics Inc. has slapped two former employees and their new employer with a lawsuit for allegedly stealing trade secrets and property related to the manufacture of high temperature gas tubes, known as Geiger Mueller tubes, that are used to detect radiation. http://www.law360.com/articles/76523 http://www.law360.com/articles/76501 A group of automobile glass producers accused of illegal market sharing has been fined a record total of more than €1.3 billion ($1.6 billion) by the European Union’s antitrust watchdog. http://www.law360.com/articles/76501 http://www.law360.com/articles/75627 Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. has asked a court to approve its consent judgment with NewAge Industries Inc. after reaching a settlement with the last of six defendants in its infringement suit over two patents for tubing and connector technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/75627 http://www.law360.com/articles/71775 Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics and W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. have settled their dispute over two patents for tubing and connector technology, ending both an infringement and a separate declaratory judgment suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/71775 http://www.law360.com/articles/71091 Glass maker Saint-Gobain Containers Inc. has settled alleged Clean Air Act violations with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the second time in three years, agreeing to pay a fine of $139,534 for its troubled Madera, Calif. facility. http://www.law360.com/articles/71091 http://www.law360.com/articles/70734 A federal jury has awarded a Siemens AG unit $52.3 million in damages after finding that a U.S. subsidiary of Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA infringed a patent covering technology used in medical imaging scanners. http://www.law360.com/articles/70734 http://www.law360.com/articles/60826 WB Music Corp., Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. and Philips Electronic North America Corp. were just some of the companies that hired law firms to work on major IP litigation in recent weeks, according to our daily review of court dockets. http://www.law360.com/articles/60826 http://www.law360.com/articles/58120 In a major victory for a group of factory workers, a federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled that Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. must pay its employees for the time spent changing in and out of mandatory protective gear. http://www.law360.com/articles/58120