http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Patton Tidwell Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/133738 Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced Wednesday that it would pay patent-holding company LecTec Corp. $23 million to settle a suit that accused the drugmaker of infringing two patents related to adhesive patches. http://www.law360.com/articles/133738 http://www.law360.com/articles/129333 Freedom Medical Inc., a company that provides stopgap medical equipment rentals to health care providers, has sued several rivals for allegedly trying to monopolize the $450 million market. http://www.law360.com/articles/129333 http://www.law360.com/articles/124111 Attorney Eric M. Albritton's defamation lawsuit against Cisco Systems Inc. over comments made in the notorious “Patent Troll Tracker” blog has been settled, relieving a jury of the need to rule on the matter. http://www.law360.com/articles/124111 http://www.law360.com/articles/118760 A jury has awarded Versata Software Inc. nearly $139 million on its claims that SAP America Inc.'s Business Suite software infringes two of Versata's patents for pricing software — a decision SAP expects to appeal, a spokesman for the company said Thursday. http://www.law360.com/articles/118760 http://www.law360.com/articles/118484 In a patent infringement dispute over Voice Over Internet Protocol technology, a federal judge has thrown out eBay Inc.’s cross-claim that one of Net2Phone Inc.’s VoIP patents should be invalidated in light of information withheld during the prosecution process. http://www.law360.com/articles/118484 http://www.law360.com/articles/114242 The trial slated to begin later this month in a suit where Versata Software Inc. alleges its patents are infringed by SAP America Inc.'s Business Suite software will have a narrower focus, now that one of the patents-at-issue has been dropped from the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/114242 http://www.law360.com/articles/112738 Paice LLC has dropped certain patent infringement claims against Toyota Motor Corp. related to two Lexus models in ongoing litigation over the rights to three patents covering hybrid vehicle technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/112738 http://www.law360.com/articles/109983 A subsidiary of patent-holding firm Acacia Research Corp. has brought a lawsuit alleging that Apple Inc., Sony Corp., Nintendo Co. Ltd. and various subsidiaries of the technology companies have infringed two patents covering a graphics accelerator system. http://www.law360.com/articles/109983 http://www.law360.com/articles/109489 Japan's Hitachi Ltd. and South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. have reached a settlement of their U.S. patent disputes over technology including plasma display technology and audiovisual products. http://www.law360.com/articles/109489 http://www.law360.com/articles/103652 LG Electronics Inc. has agreed to drop a few claims in a lawsuit it brought against Hitachi Ltd. for manufacturing and selling car audiovisual products that allegedly infringed four of its patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/103652 http://www.law360.com/articles/98506 Travelers Casualty and Surety Co. of America and a Texas consulting company are embroiled in a dispute over who should pay the costs of compliance with an Internal Revenue Service investigation into the alleged creation and marketing of an illegal tax shelter scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/98506 http://www.law360.com/articles/97022 A holder of the rights to two patents related to automotive entertainment systems has settled infringement claims against Hyundai Motor America, leaving the case to proceed against another defendant in the case, BMW of North America LLC. http://www.law360.com/articles/97022 http://www.law360.com/articles/93505 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has revived a patent suit filed by water treatment company ClearValue Inc. against rival Pearl River Polymers Inc., finding that the district court's dismissal of the case and imposition of over $2.7 million in sanctions against ClearValue for concealing evidence during discovery were excessive. http://www.law360.com/articles/93505 http://www.law360.com/articles/90615 Google has become the fourth of nine telecommunications companies to settle with Klausner Technologies in an ongoing patent infringement suit over visual voice-messaging technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/90615 http://www.law360.com/articles/90175 Comodo Communications Inc. has accused j2 Global Communications Inc. of fraudulently obtaining patents for Internet faxing products, as patent litigation continues between the two providers of Internet services. http://www.law360.com/articles/90175 http://www.law360.com/articles/89883 Information Protection and Authentication of Texas LLC has accused Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp. and a score of other companies of infringing patents related to security software for computer systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/89883 http://www.law360.com/articles/83397 Medical device maker Rochester Medical Corp. says it has reached a $3.5 million settlement of its antitrust claims with Covidien Ltd., the last remaining defendant in long-running antitrust litigation that claimed a group of companies had created a monopoly in the catheter market. http://www.law360.com/articles/83397 http://www.law360.com/articles/75476 A patent lawyer suing Cisco Systems Inc. in federal court over an article in the notorious “Patent Troll Tracker” blog has objected to Cisco's request for his personal records as proof of his "mental anguish." http://www.law360.com/articles/75476 http://www.law360.com/articles/74023 Medical technology giant St. Jude Medical Inc. has hit Access Closure Inc. with a suit alleging the defendant’s vascular closure device infringes several St. Jude patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/74023 http://www.law360.com/articles/70001 800 Adept Inc. has settled a patent lawsuit it brought against AT&T Mobility LLC over patents for the routing of emergency 911 calls and other call routing technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/70001