http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: WilmerHale Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132779 The founders of Skype Ltd. have laid down their swords in a battle over eBay Inc.'s $2.75 billion sale of the majority of Skype to a group of private investors, agreeing to drop an intellectual property suit and other litigation in exchange for a stake in the Internet telephony company. http://www.law360.com/articles/132779 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/132064 The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on whether a bankrupt debtor can hold on to property claimed as exempt that may be worth more than originally estimated and, if so, whether a trustee is then required to object to the properly claimed exemption to dispute the value of the exempted assets. http://www.law360.com/articles/132064 http://www.law360.com/articles/131974 With the ink barely dry on an $85 million settlement between Lufthansa AG and plaintiffs in the massive multidistrict litigation accusing a host of air cargo shipping service providers of a worldwide price-fixing scheme, two class members have stepped forward to appeal the deal. http://www.law360.com/articles/131974 http://www.law360.com/articles/132001 Attorneys who represented Qualcomm Inc., facing sanctions for failing to hand over a mound of evidence during discovery for a patent infringement suit, have blamed the breach on company employees who allegedly lied to them. http://www.law360.com/articles/132001 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/131838 The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to rehear an asbestos injury case the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit had remanded for trial in April, paving the way for AstenJohnson Inc.’s six-year-old complaint against its insurers to be heard by a jury. http://www.law360.com/articles/131838 http://www.law360.com/articles/130719 TiVo Inc. and EchoStar Corp. will face off in front of a federal appeals court panel over a district court decision that hit EchoStar with $200 million in sanctions for continuing to infringe a TiVo patent with its redesigned digital video recorder technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/130719 http://www.law360.com/articles/130870 Lithium ion battery maker A123 Systems Inc. is taking its challenge to a district court judge's decision not to reopen a case in which it sought to have two patents licensed to Hydro-Quebec declared invalid to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. http://www.law360.com/articles/130870 http://www.law360.com/articles/130318 Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, underwriters for the bank’s share offerings and individual defendants have lambasted a consolidated shareholder complaint they say opportunistically alleges fraud in the aftermath of the financial crisis. http://www.law360.com/articles/130318 http://www.law360.com/articles/130832 The American Antitrust Institute has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that ambiguous arbitration agreements should be construed to permit class arbitration, one of the central issues in a case accusing several shipping companies of restraining trade in the parcel tanker industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/130832 http://www.law360.com/articles/122759 In the next five years, there will be increasing emphasis on the intersection of international trade with other key policy arenas, particularly energy and climate change, says Mark D. Herlach, chair of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP's nuclear energy team and partner in the corporate practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/122759 http://www.law360.com/articles/130507 A federal judge has dismissed a putative class action brought by an American who accused four foreign airlines, including Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Air France, of conspiring to fix the price of air travel between Europe and Japan. http://www.law360.com/articles/130507 http://www.law360.com/articles/130306 A bankruptcy judge has signed off on a $100,000 settlement between KB Toys Inc. and the state of California over the Golden State's lawsuit accusing the retailer of polluting drinking water with lead toy blocks and other products that were recalled in 2007. http://www.law360.com/articles/130306 http://www.law360.com/articles/129115 An avalanche of export control enforcement actions and steeper penalties should have companies jumping through hoops to make sure they are in compliance, but in the current economic climate, a safeguard program that doesn't immediately benefit the bottom line can be a tough sell. http://www.law360.com/articles/129115 http://www.law360.com/articles/130106 Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc. has asked a federal judge to toss antitrust allegations lodged by Advanced Ion Beam Technology Inc., claiming that the court dismissed the same accusations in August after AIBT raised them as counterclaims in a separate patent infringement spat. http://www.law360.com/articles/130106 http://www.law360.com/articles/129935 Law firms continued to announce cost-cutting measures this week, with WilmerHale LLP confirming Thursday that it had laid off 57 support staff members across four of its offices. http://www.law360.com/articles/129935 http://www.law360.com/articles/129400 The plaintiffs in multidistrict legislation that accuses the nation's top banks of bilking consumers with egregious overdraft fees are seeking to add more meat to their allegations. http://www.law360.com/articles/129400 http://www.law360.com/articles/129327 A federal judge has effectively tossed a proposed class action that took issue with allegedly misleading statements surrounding an initial public offering of common stock in dry bulk shipping company Britannia Bulk Holdings Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/129327 http://www.law360.com/articles/123967 Complexity in a cross-border deal doesn’t always mean new and different structures getting thrown in. With extra tax and stock implications to consider, multiple antitrust regimes to power through, and varying labor laws and union strength, deal makers have to prepare to take the usual concerns and multiply them. http://www.law360.com/articles/123967