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/122734 The practice of some courts of appeals to simply affirm decisions without either providing any reasoning or expressly adopting the decision of the district court as its own is irksome and fundamentally unfair. It is nearly impossible to obtain review in the U.S. Supreme Court if the basis for the decision of the court of appeals is a mystery, says M. Miller Baker, co-chair of McDermott Will & Emery LLP's appellate practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/122734 http://www.law360.com/articles/134491 In light of the enormous number of patents out there — and the enormous amount of patented content in products like laptops, cell phones, set top boxes — there has got to be a better way and better guidelines for assessing patent damages, says Robert Van Nest of Keker & Van Nest LLP, who specializes in intellectual property litigation. http://www.law360.com/articles/134491 http://www.law360.com/articles/134198 Intel Corp. is taking antitrust compliance seriously, and wants enforcement agencies to know it. That's the signal the company is sending by signing a peace pact with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and naming WilmerHale LLP partner and antitrust expert Douglas Melamed as its general counsel, according to attorneys. http://www.law360.com/articles/134198 http://www.law360.com/articles/133799 The $1.25 billion truce between Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. may have put an end to a long-running and bitter antitrust and intellectual property dispute between the rival computer chip makers, but it doesn't resolve ongoing regulatory scrutiny of Intel. http://www.law360.com/articles/133799 http://www.law360.com/articles/133853 A federal judge has killed a shareholder suit against Allied Capital Corp., saying investors have failed to state a claim that the business loan provider knew of a $77 million case of fraud at one of its portfolio companies that they claim caused their stock to plummet. http://www.law360.com/articles/133853 http://www.law360.com/articles/133636 A federal judge has dismissed a Dutch pension fund's suit accusing State Street Bank & Trust Co. of breaching a contract related to an investment the bank allegedly delegated to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., ruling that the claims belong in the Netherlands. http://www.law360.com/articles/133636 http://www.law360.com/articles/133646 Plaintiffs who sued Internet phone provider Vonage Holdings Corp. over alleged misstatements and omissions leading up to Vonage's 2006 initial public offering have asked a federal judge for final approval of a $3.6 million class action settlement. http://www.law360.com/articles/133646 http://www.law360.com/articles/133245 Emulex Corp. has filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing rival Broadcom Corp. of exaggerating Emulex's alleged patent infringement in order to maintain its dominant position selling a certain type of Ethernet controller for computer servers. http://www.law360.com/articles/133245 http://www.law360.com/articles/133330 Dealers ditched by Chrysler when it reorganized after bankruptcy have filed an appeal in federal district court, seeking to overturn the bankruptcy court order that ended their legal battles. http://www.law360.com/articles/133330 http://www.law360.com/articles/133189 Robert Bell, formerly of WilmerHale LLP, has joined Kaye Scholer LLP's Washington office as the new co-chair for the firm's entire antitrust division. http://www.law360.com/articles/133189 http://www.law360.com/articles/133152 A federal judge has granted class status to a group of employee pension plan trustees in a case alleging Nationwide Financial Services Inc. used its control of plan assets to bargain for revenue-sharing payments from mutual funds in breach of its fiduciary duty. http://www.law360.com/articles/133152 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