Husch Blackwell Sanders

1. Panera Shareholder Suit Pared Under Safe Harbor Rule

Thursday, Mar 18, 2010

A federal judge has significantly narrowed the scope of a shareholder class action against Panera Bread Co., finding that statements the company made in 2005 and 2006 about business growth were protected by the safe harbor rule of the Securities Exchange Act.

2. Bryan Cave Grabs Husch Blackwell Securities Team

Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010

Bryan Cave LLP has poached a team of six attorneys, including two partners, from Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP to expand its securities litigation practice in St. Louis.

3. Cephalon Patent Suit Over Amrix Survives Dismissal

Monday, Mar 15, 2010

A federal judge has ruled that a patent infringement suit against Anchen Pharmaceuticals Inc. over its plans to make a generic version of Cephalon Inc. muscle relaxant Amrix can go forward, largely denying an Anchen dismissal motion in the case, which is part of a multidistrict litigation.

4. GroupCast Cut From Mass Messaging Patent Suit

Tuesday, Mar 09, 2010

TechRadium Inc. has dropped GroupCast LLC from a patent suit accusing nearly a dozen communications companies of infringing three mass notification patents.

5. Anheuser-Busch Files Trademark Suit Over Baby Bottles

Tuesday, Mar 09, 2010

Anheuser-Busch Inc. has filed a trademark infringement suit against a small Maryland company that sells gag baby bottles shaped like beer bottles, claiming that the artwork on the bottles looks too much like Budweiser labels.

6. Twitter Me This: Are My Trademarks Still Safe Online?

Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010

Countless articles have been written about the need to monitor usernames and URLs on popular social networking sites as a part of diligent trademark enforcement. However, other forms of illegal use of trademarks on social networking sites have largely gone unnoticed, says MyLynda J. Moore of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP.

7. Kodak, Zund Near Deal In Printer Patent Suit

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010

Eastman Kodak Co. and Zund America Inc. are nearing settlement of a computer printer patent suit brought by Whetstone Electronics LLC against a host of technology companies, while Fujifilm Sericol USA Inc. has effectively been dismissed from the case.

8. Rash Of IP Boutiques Look To Cash In Post-Recession

Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010

Small IP boutiques have cropped up over the last year and a half and may be in a prime position to gain an advantage over their larger competitors as the economy recovers, thanks to their specialization and rate flexibility, legal experts say.

9. DuPont Ordered To Pay $2M For Niagara Plant Cleanup

Thursday, Jan 28, 2010

In a nearly three-decade-long case over the cleanup of the area around three chemical plants in Niagara Falls, N.Y., a federal judge has ordered DuPont Co. to pay Solvent Chemical Co. Inc. $2.05 million to cover part of the remediation.

10. Urethane Suits Against BASF, Dow Win Green Light

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010

A federal judge has allowed chemical companies to proceed with two putative class actions accusing BASF SE, the Dow Chemical Co. and Huntsman International LLC of price-fixing in the urethane market, but rejected claims based on European law and against two BASF executives.

11. Tort Claims Allowed V. Dreyfus In $200M Fraud Case

Monday, Jan 25, 2010

A federal appeals court has partially reversed a ruling that blocked five state insurance commissioners from pursuing claims against Dreyfus Service Corp. for its role in convicted felon Martin Frankel's $200 million fraud scheme.

12. Urethane Plaintiffs Must Produce Downstream Data

Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a group of direct purchaser plaintiffs in the long-running multidistrict antitrust litigation against urethane manufacturers and distributors to produce downstream data on how they used, sold and marketed items made with the chemical.

13. Monsanto Can Pursue Contract Claims V. DuPont: Judge

Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010

A federal judge has handed Monsanto Co. a victory in its bitter fight with DuPont Co. over a patent for herbicide-resistant genetically modified soybeans and corn, ruling that DuPont was not licensed to combine certain genetic traits in its seeds and that Monsanto could continue to pursue breach of contract claims against its rival.

14. Law360 Employment Editorial Advisory Board

Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2010 employment editorial advisory board.

15. Law360 International Trade Editorial Advisory Board

Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2010 international trade editorial advisory board.

16. DC Circ. Hears Pipeline Rate Formula Arguments

Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010

Oil companies including Exxon Mobil Oil Corp. and BP West Coast Products LLC appear to have won a sympathetic ear from appeals court judges in their challenge to a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-approved pipeline rate increase methodology, according to an attorney who has been involved in the case.

17. Monsanto, Pfizer PCB Suits Sent Back To State Court

Wednesday, Jan 06, 2010

About half a dozen cases brought against Monsanto Ag Products LLC, Pfizer Inc. subsidiary Pharmacia Corp. and others over contamination at two plants near East St. Louis, Ill. — which may date back to military production of chemicals during World War II — are returning to state court after a federal judge ruled he lacked jurisdiction.

18. Airfield Cleanup To Cost Raytheon $3M: 10th Circ.

Monday, Jan 04, 2010

Raytheon Aircraft Co. must pay $3.1 million to clean pollution at a World War II-era airfield in Kansas, a federal appeals court has ruled, upholding a district court decision issued after a bench trial featuring testimony from environmental technicians, historians and war veterans.

19. Medical Suppliers Resolve Marketing Dispute

Monday, Dec 21, 2009

AmMed Direct LLC has reached a settlement with rival medical supply company Liberty Medical Supply Inc., dismissing AmMed's accusations that Liberty poached customers by telling them they had to switch to Liberty to keep receiving diabetes testing equipment and medication.

20. Hot Fuel Defendants Lose Bid To Toss MDL

Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009

A group of defendants in multidistrict litigation over motor fuel temperature sales practices — including 7-Eleven Inc., Wawa Inc. and Marathon Petroleum Co. LLC — has failed to persuade a judge that the case is rife with political issues reserved for U.S. Congress and should be dismissed.