Monday, Mar 15, 2010
Following a two-month trial, a Houston jury has found that the region's largest hospital system did not run afoul of Texas antitrust law despite claims from six doctors that it pressured insurers not to add competing hospitals to their coverage networks.Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
A federal jury has awarded $4.7 million to Smith & Nephew PLC in its infringement suit against Arthrex Inc. over a patent for a button used to hold tissues in place for knee reconstruction surgery.Monday, Feb 08, 2010
In a boost to defendant Arthrex Inc., a federal judge has granted the orthopedic device maker's bid to prohibit rival Smith & Nephew PLC from making arguments at trial as to whether Arthrex literally infringed certain elements of two patents covering a button used to hold tissues in place for knee reconstruction surgery.Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
A federal judge has granted a request by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp. to throw out their patent infringement claims against Google Inc. over its search engine and popular Google Earth program.Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010
The Houston area's largest hospital system has reached a second settlement over claims that it pressured insurers not to add competing hospitals to their coverage networks, resolving claims by the largest group of investor doctors who claimed their own hospital was forced out of business because of the system's actions.Friday, Jan 08, 2010
Adopting several recommendations by a magistrate judge, a federal court has refused to dismiss Fractus SA’s patent infringement claims against Sharp Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. over internal antenna technology.Thursday, Jan 07, 2010
A federal court has denied Google Inc.'s second attempt to squash two technology companies' patent infringement claims related to its search engine and Google Earth, again discounting the Internet giant's argument that the plaintiffs lack standing.Monday, Jan 04, 2010
Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. has filed a new suit against Abbott Laboratories, seeking continuing damages as Abbott appeals a $1.85 billion judgment that its arthritis treatment Humira infringes a patent held by the Johnson & Johnson unit.Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
Software maker Positive Software Solutions Inc. has struck a deal to end its fraud suit against Susman Godfrey LLP and others for allegedly mishandling evidence in the defense of an underlying copyright infringement case.Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
Abbott Laboratories is appealing a $1.85 billion judgment imposed against it after a jury found that the drugmaker's arthritis treatment Humira infringed a patent asserted by Johnson & Johnson unit Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc.Friday, Dec 18, 2009
A federal judge has ordered Abbott Laboratories to pay Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. interest of nearly $176 million on the record $1.67 billion judgment he awarded the Johnson & Johnson unit after a jury found that Abbott's arthritis drug Humira infringed a Centocor patent.Thursday, Nov 05, 2009
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.Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009
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.Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
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.Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
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.Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009
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.Friday, Aug 21, 2009
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.Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009
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.Friday, Jul 31, 2009
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.Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009
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.| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |