http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Time Warner Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132522 A federal appeals court has refused to reverse the dismissal of a suit brought against Time Warner Inc. by a former executive who claimed he was fired in retaliation for making whistleblower claims regarding alleged financial irregularities. http://www.law360.com/articles/132522 http://www.law360.com/articles/131683 A group of cable television subscribers is appealing the dismissal of a putative antitrust class action against a slew of major television programmers and cable providers — including NBC Universal Inc. and Comcast Corp. — that alleged the companies bundled programming and overcharged customers. http://www.law360.com/articles/131683 http://www.law360.com/articles/130682 Patent-holding company Aloft Media LLC has dropped Infor Global Solutions (Michigan) Inc. from its suit accusing Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and others of infringing three patents related to collaborative decision protocol software. http://www.law360.com/articles/130682 http://www.law360.com/articles/130099 The lead plaintiff in a putative class action accusing Time Warner Inc. of violating federal and state labor laws by failing to pay employees proper regular and overtime wages has won his bid for leave to amend his previously dismissed complaint. http://www.law360.com/articles/130099 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 http://www.law360.com/articles/123980 This article explains the patent marking requirement and examines the impact of TransCore LP v. Electronic Transaction Consultants Corp. on the obligations to mark under agreements that contain covenants not to sue — particularly on those agreements into which license rights are implied, say William J. Robinson, Victor de Gyarfas and Stephan J. Nickels of Foley & Lardner LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/123980 http://www.law360.com/articles/128605 A Federal Communications Commission administrative law judge has sided with Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. in a lawsuit brought by family-owned network WealthTV, which accused them of refusing to carry its channels in favor of a competitor affiliated with the cable giants. http://www.law360.com/articles/128605 http://www.law360.com/articles/127371 API Technologies LLC has cut a deal with AOL LLC, MapQuest Inc. and other Internet firms in its suit targeting dozens of companies for allegedly infringing its data network patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/127371 http://www.law360.com/articles/127372 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has slapped a Massachusetts resident with a suit alleging he fraudulently raised at least $3.7 million by telling investors they were buying shares in companies including AOL/Time Warner Inc., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. in anticipation of expected initial public offerings. http://www.law360.com/articles/127372 http://www.law360.com/articles/126722 U.S. antitrust regulators have sped up Adobe Systems Inc.’s $1.8 billion acquisition of Web analytics firm Omniture Inc., terminating the waiting period for the tender offer ahead of schedule. http://www.law360.com/articles/126722 http://www.law360.com/articles/125782 A judge has rejected bids by four former AOL Time Warner Inc. executives to throw out civil fraud charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over an alleged scheme to overstate the media giant's advertising revenues by $1 billion. http://www.law360.com/articles/125782 http://www.law360.com/articles/124880 Echostar Satellite LLC, DirecTV Group Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc. and CSC Holdings Inc. have won their bid for summary judgment of invalidity on five patents related to audio and video transmission technology in a multidistrict infringement suit brought by Acacia Media Technologies Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/124880 http://www.law360.com/articles/124413 Following the lead of its U.S. House of Representatives counterpart, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved legislation aimed at extending the compulsory copyright licenses that allow cable and satellite television operators to retransmit television signals. http://www.law360.com/articles/124413 http://www.law360.com/articles/122658 A House panel has unanimously approved a measure aimed at extending the compulsory copyright licenses that allow cable and satellite television operators to retransmit television signals. http://www.law360.com/articles/122658 http://www.law360.com/articles/122417 The founder of defunct PurchasePro.com Inc. has been ordered to pay $3 million in a long-running U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case that alleged he conspired with other executives to fraudulently inflate the revenues of the Internet software company. http://www.law360.com/articles/122417 http://www.law360.com/articles/122385 Business software giant Adobe Systems Inc. will acquire Omniture Inc. for $1.8 billion, buying all the Web analytics firm's outstanding stock for $21.50 a share, the companies announced Tuesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/122385 http://www.law360.com/articles/122087 A federal judge has ruled that Veoh Networks Inc., which operates the Veoh video-sharing software and Web site, is entitled to safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is not liable for monetary or injunctive relief to Universal Music Group entities that had sued it for copyright infringement. http://www.law360.com/articles/122087 http://www.law360.com/articles/121522 The former vice president and associate general counsel for the global patent division at Yahoo Inc., Duane Valz, has signed on to join Chadbourne & Park LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/121522 http://www.law360.com/articles/121432 Seventeen major record companies, including UMG Recordings Inc., Sony Music Entertainment, Capitol Records LLC, Warner Brothers Records Inc. and Virgin Records America Inc., have accused the creators, producers and distributors of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” of illegally playing more than 1,000 sound recordings owned by the companies during a number of segments on the show. http://www.law360.com/articles/121432 http://www.law360.com/articles/121337 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB has reached agreements with patent-holding companies Aloft Media LLC and Stragent LLC, resolving infringement claims against the cell phone maker in three suits over online messaging, data networking and cell phone technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/121337