http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Beck Redden Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132584 A federal judge has upheld a jury verdict awarding Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. and New York University a record $1.67 billion for their claims that Abbott Laboratories' flagship arthritis drug Humira infringed their patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/132584 http://www.law360.com/articles/130652 Texas' high court has ruled in favor of Union Pacific Railroad Co. in a wrongful death suit, finding that the company had no obligation to keep its railroad crossings clear of sight obstructions and clarifying federal preemption of state tort law claims related to motorist warnings. http://www.law360.com/articles/130652 http://www.law360.com/articles/129431 Positive Software Solutions Inc. has asked a federal court to compel evidence from Baker Botts LLP and its client Susman Godfrey LLP, which represented New Century Holdings Inc. in a copyright lawsuit against the software company and allegedly withheld evidence and concealed key information. http://www.law360.com/articles/129431 http://www.law360.com/articles/127390 Google Inc., the defendant in a patent infringement suit over adaptive Internet searches, has successfully reduced the scope of the deposition of one of its key lobbyists, whom plaintiff PA Advisors LLC had wanted to testify about the search giant's policies relating to its intellectual property and to the changes it seeks for U.S. patent laws. http://www.law360.com/articles/127390 http://www.law360.com/articles/125329 A judge has dismissed a federal securities fraud claim brought by investors against Proskauer Rose LLP — the sole remaining defendant in a suit that targeted accounting firms, Sidley Austin LLP and others — for its alleged role in an illegal tax scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/125329 http://www.law360.com/articles/117810 A federal judge has ruled that paper products company Georgia-Pacific Corp. and specialty minerals company Milwhite Inc. can't be deemed wholly exempt from liability for cleanup costs at a decades-old Arkansas mining site, which so far have been mostly assessed against Halliburton Energy Services Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/117810 http://www.law360.com/articles/117133 In a suit accusing Google Inc. and a dozen other Internet companies of infringing a patent for online search software, the technology giant has asked a federal judge to quash PA Advisors LLC's subpoena for the deposition of its policy counsel, calling the request irrelevant. http://www.law360.com/articles/117133 http://www.law360.com/articles/114243 Amazon.com Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have settled with TQP Development LLC in litigation accusing nearly two dozen banks, several major credit card companies and others of infringing a patent related to an online encrypted data transmission method. http://www.law360.com/articles/114243 http://www.law360.com/articles/108913 A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has hit Abbott Laboratories with possibly the largest patent verdict in U.S. history, awarding Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Centocor Inc. $1.67 billion and finding that Abbott's flagship arthritis drug Humira infringed a Centocor patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/108913 http://www.law360.com/articles/105634 Performance Pricing Inc. has moved to dismiss Yahoo Inc. from patent infringement litigation over online advertising technology, a move that would make the Internet search giant the third defendant to exit the Texas-based media sales consulting firm's suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/105634 http://www.law360.com/articles/103615 A federal judge has refused Abbott Laboratories' bid to invalidate two patents in an infringement suit brought by Centocor Inc. and New York University over Abbott's flagship arthritis drug Humira. http://www.law360.com/articles/103615 http://www.law360.com/articles/101729 Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Centocor Inc. and New York University have been denied summary judgment in their patent infringement case against Abbott Laboratories over its popular arthritis drug Humira. http://www.law360.com/articles/101729 http://www.law360.com/articles/100990 The court overseeing Immersion Medical Inc.’s suit against Mentice AB and Simbionix Ltd. over patents related to surgical training systems should disqualify law firm McKool Smith PC and former Judge Samuel F. Baxter from representing Immersion in the case, Simbionix said Monday. http://www.law360.com/articles/100990 http://www.law360.com/articles/98357 A federal appeals court has held that a flood sublimit applies to losses caused by Hurricane Katrina, letting Liberty Corporate Capital Ltd., Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance Co. and other excess insurers off the hook in a disputed claim with Six Flags Inc.'s amusement park in New Orleans. http://www.law360.com/articles/98357 http://www.law360.com/articles/97573 Finding that an engineering firm and construction company did not know they had damaged a Celanese Corp. methanol line during a water pipeline installation project three decades ago, a federal court has determined that the pair are not liable for cleanup costs under state and federal environmental laws. http://www.law360.com/articles/97573 http://www.law360.com/articles/97151 A month after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Wyeth Pharmaceutical Inc.'s federal preemption argument, a Texas appeals court has dealt another blow to the drugmaker, reversing Wyeth's victory in a case over the company's hormone replacement drug Prempro. http://www.law360.com/articles/97151 http://www.law360.com/articles/94370 A federal court has adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendations to deny class certification in two antitrust lawsuits against Batesville Casket Co. Inc. and other companies alleging funeral homes and casket makers conspired to fix prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/94370 http://www.law360.com/articles/88620 Zions Bancorporation and Zions First National Bank have become the latest companies to settle with DataTreasury Corp. in a protracted lawsuit that accused more than 50 financial companies of infringing several patents related to check-imaging and other banking technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/88620 http://www.law360.com/articles/84773 Houston's largest hospital system has agreed to a five-year injunction to settle the Texas attorney general's charges that it pressured insurance providers such as Aetna Inc. not to add competing hospitals to their coverage networks. http://www.law360.com/articles/84773 http://www.law360.com/articles/83454 Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Centocor Inc. and New York University have caught heat from a federal judge for their motion to compel Abbott Laboratories to produce testimony for their patent infringement case over Abbott’s popular arthritis drug Humira. http://www.law360.com/articles/83454