http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Walt Disney Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135386 Business and intellectual property trial lawyer Timothy G. Barber, formerly head of the patent litigation team at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC, has joined King & Spalding LLP as a partner in the firm’s Charlotte, N.C., office. http://www.law360.com/articles/135386 http://www.law360.com/articles/134755 California's attorney general has targeted several major retailers — including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and Sears Roebuck & Co. — for selling children's products that contain illegally high levels of lead, advising the stores to pull the products immediately. http://www.law360.com/articles/134755 http://www.law360.com/articles/120801 As the economy continues to recover, private equity will get back into the buying game. They’ve sat on the sidelines for too long and have too much uninvested capital that they need to deploy, says Christopher Bellini, of counsel in Dorsey & Whitney LLP's corporate group. http://www.law360.com/articles/120801 http://www.law360.com/articles/133583 A Texas-based inventor has filed suit against video game makers Ubisoft Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., Electronic Arts Inc. and Disney Interactive Studios Inc. for allegedly infringing a patent related to voice recognition technology in video games. http://www.law360.com/articles/133583 http://www.law360.com/articles/133040 Struggling from debt from defaults in the small-business credit market, credit card issuer Advanta Corp. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has said it may be forced to turn its banking unit over to federal regulators. http://www.law360.com/articles/133040 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/131829 Two companies have asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to review an administrative law judge's recommendation that they face a 10-year limited exclusion order for violating tariff laws by misappropriating trade secrets related to the manufacture of cast-steel railway wheels. http://www.law360.com/articles/131829 http://www.law360.com/articles/131315 Walt Disney Co. has expanded its refund program for purchasers of its “Baby Einstein” line of educational videos under continued pressure from a children’s advocacy group that claims the videos do not advance infant development as advertised. http://www.law360.com/articles/131315 http://www.law360.com/articles/130134 Electronics distributor Harvard International PLC has agreed to pay $10 million to resolve litigation accusing the U.K.-based company of infringing certain patents for MPEG-2 technology in its global distribution of products that use the standard. http://www.law360.com/articles/130134 http://www.law360.com/articles/130048 Patent-holding company Actus LLC has dropped its claims against Google Inc. in a lawsuit against nearly two dozen technology companies over patents related to an electronic payment system. http://www.law360.com/articles/130048 http://www.law360.com/articles/129895 A Dutch court has again ordered bit torrent-tracking Web site the Pirate Bay to shut down its operations in the Netherlands, giving the three men who allegedly run the Web site three months to remove copyrighted torrents and block Dutch users' access to these links to prevent further copyright infringement. http://www.law360.com/articles/129895 http://www.law360.com/articles/127913 The Walt Disney Co. and several toy retailers have won a patent infringement suit brought by two inventors who claimed that “talking posters” featuring Disney Channel personalities infringed their patented technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/127913 http://www.law360.com/articles/127177 Two companies have hit Facebook Inc. with new patent infringement allegations over technology related to personal Web pages and tracking relationships online, the latest salvo in a barrage of patent defense actions Facebook has weathered this year. http://www.law360.com/articles/127177 http://www.law360.com/articles/124749 Having already shot down Stephen Slesinger Inc.’s breach of contract counterclaims in an epic dispute with Disney Enterprises Inc. over royalties from the Winnie the Pooh franchise, a federal judge has tossed the remaining copyright infringement counterclaims. http://www.law360.com/articles/124749 http://www.law360.com/articles/124471 Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. have been dropped from Actus LLC's wide-ranging patent infringement suit over four patents related to electronic payment systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/124471 http://www.law360.com/articles/124276 Patent-holding company SimpleAir Inc. has sued Facebook Inc., the Walt Disney Co., Apple Inc. and a handful of other corporations for allegedly infringing four patents that cover network messaging. http://www.law360.com/articles/124276 http://www.law360.com/articles/110616 As more law firms and law departments make the move to electronic billing, corporate clients are finding they can use the systems for more than just catching improper billings. http://www.law360.com/articles/110616 http://www.law360.com/articles/117477 As intellectual property becomes a more significant part of mergers and acquisitions, buyers and sellers face a web of legal risks when entering into deals. http://www.law360.com/articles/117477 http://www.law360.com/articles/123029 Sonic Solutions has become the latest in a string of defendants to settle with Actus LLC, a patent-holding company that accused nearly two dozen entities of infringing four patents related to an electronic payment system. http://www.law360.com/articles/123029 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