http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: LG Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135312 Sony Corp., Panasonic Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. are among a slew of companies that have been accused by VoxPath RS LLC of infringing a patent for optical data storage technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/135312 http://www.law360.com/articles/134769 A Silicon Storage Technology Inc. shareholder has filed a putative class action aiming to block Prophet Equity LP's $201 million acquisition of the flash memory manufacturer, arguing that the offer is inadequate in light of SST's bright prospects and high demand for its products from companies including Apple Inc. and Intel Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/134769 http://www.law360.com/articles/133680 A federal judge has cut two claims from a suit by appliance manufacturer LG Electronics USA Inc. accusing competitor Whirlpool Corp. of infringing several patents related to refrigerator features. http://www.law360.com/articles/133680 http://www.law360.com/articles/133191 Panasonic Corp. subsidiary MT Picture Display Co. Ltd. and its overseas subsidiaries have filed for a hearing to challenge cease-and-desist and surcharge payment orders issued against them by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission in connection with the sale of cathode ray tubes. http://www.law360.com/articles/133191 http://www.law360.com/articles/133130 IMA-Hong Kong Ltd. and Spectra Merchandising International Inc. have become the latest portable electronics companies to settle with Tsera LLC in its infringement suit over a patent covering touch pad technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/133130 http://www.law360.com/articles/132655 Mitsubishi Corp. apparently opted for an out-of-court settlement with a retired New York City professor over the alleged infringement of patented light-emitting diode technology, shortly after the professor resolved a wide-ranging dispute before the U.S. International Trade Commission over the same patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/132655 http://www.law360.com/articles/132245 The U.S. International Trade Commission has terminated its investigation into allegations that more than 30 companies infringed a light-emitting diode patent, now that the Columbia University professor who lodged the complaint has reached a resolution with holdouts Toshiba Corp. and Panasonic Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/132245 http://www.law360.com/articles/132288 Tsera LLC has settled patent infringement claims with seven portable electronics makers the company had accused of stealing its touch pad technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/132288 http://www.law360.com/articles/131996 Technology company Media Digital Corp. has hit BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. with an infringement suit over a patent for touch screen technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/131996 http://www.law360.com/articles/131539 LG Electronics Inc. has agreed not to oppose requests from Westinghouse Digital Electronics LLC and Vizio Inc. to stay LG's patent infringement suit over digital television technology while the U.S. International Trade Commission considers a related case over some of the same patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/131539 http://www.law360.com/articles/131519 Nidec Corp. has agreed to drop its allegations that an LG Electronics Inc. unit infringed a patent covering motors used in computer CD and DVD drives, following settlement negotiations this fall. http://www.law360.com/articles/131519 http://www.law360.com/articles/130997 LG Electronics Inc. and Hitachi Ltd. have settled a computer technology patent spat seven months after a federal district judge's ruling that LG's patent rights were exhausted because the dispute was similar to a case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court last year. http://www.law360.com/articles/130997 http://www.law360.com/articles/130609 LG Electronics USA Inc. has become the latest defendant to reach a settlement in a suit brought by International Control Systems LLC accusing nearly a dozen TV manufacturers of infringing a patent covering a volume control mechanism. http://www.law360.com/articles/130609 http://www.law360.com/articles/130550 An Israeli-owned software company is suing Google Inc. for patent infringement, claiming the Internet giant is using a patented algorithm that allows it to issue smaller updates for its new Google Chrome Web browser. http://www.law360.com/articles/130550 http://www.law360.com/articles/130621 Portable music player maker Lasonic Electronics Corp. has become the second audio equipment company to settle in Tsera LLC's patent infringement suit accusing more than two dozen companies of stealing touch pad technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/130621 http://www.law360.com/articles/128440 The groundbreaking decision in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co. is one of several pending or recently decided cases in which parties seek to use the federal courts to attack greenhouse gas emissions. Notably, none of these other courts have definitively allowed global warming cases to proceed past the pleadings stage, say Gabrielle Sigel, Patricia L. Boye-Williams and Michael R. Strong of Jenner Block LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128440 http://www.law360.com/articles/129699 Samsung Electronics America Inc. has agreed to settle a patent lawsuit filed by e.Digital Corp. over flash memory technology, making it the last of the seven defendants in the case to reach an agreement with e.Digital. http://www.law360.com/articles/129699 http://www.law360.com/articles/129525 Motorola Inc. has filed an antitrust suit against a slew of Asia-based liquid crystal display panel makers, including AU Optronics Corp., Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. and Sharp Electronics Corp., claiming they engaged in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/129525 http://www.law360.com/articles/129169 Fujitsu Ltd., LG Electronics and U.S. Philips Corp. are appealing a September federal court ruling that over 200 Netgear Inc. products did not infringe three of the companies' Wi-Fi transmission technology patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/129169 http://www.law360.com/articles/129089 Static Control Components Inc. is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to overturn a district court ruling that the company lacked standing to bring antitrust claims against Lexmark International Inc. in a long-running patent dispute over printer cartridges. http://www.law360.com/articles/129089