http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Blockbuster Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/120821 As a result of financing challenges, there will be a heavy amount of refinancing activity over the next 12 to 18 months, says Gregory A. Weingart, chairman of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC's corporate practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/120821 http://www.law360.com/articles/133948 Microsoft Corp. has cut a deal in Digital Reg of Texas LLC’s suit alleging the software giant and other companies have infringed its patent by making and selling digital content that incorporates Digital Rights Management technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/133948 http://www.law360.com/articles/125950 Costco Wholesale Corp.'s petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its dispute with Omega SA over whether Costco can sell Omega watches it legally bought outside the U.S. could give the high court a chance to resolve an increasingly important problem in copyright law, attorneys say. http://www.law360.com/articles/125950 http://www.law360.com/articles/129174 One-time search engine giant Lycos Inc. has abandoned its challenge of a noninfringement ruling in favor of Netflix Inc. in a dispute over patents related to technology for collaborative filtering. http://www.law360.com/articles/129174 http://www.law360.com/articles/126606 Eolas Technologies Inc. has hit nearly two dozen companies — including PepsiCo. Inc., YouTube LLC, Amazon.com and Blockbuster Inc. — with a patent infringement suit over interactive Web site technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/126606 http://www.law360.com/articles/122189 Blockbuster Inc. plans to close nearly 1,000 stores and sell $340 million in senior secured promissory notes in a private offering to improve liquidity and pay back outstanding debts, the company has revealed. http://www.law360.com/articles/122189 http://www.law360.com/articles/121926 One-time search engine giant Lycos Inc. has appealed a noninfringement ruling in favor of Netflix Inc. in a dispute over patents related to technology for collaborative filtering. http://www.law360.com/articles/121926 http://www.law360.com/articles/122023 Overstock.com Inc. has become the first defendant to reach an agreement in a suit brought by a patent-holding company accusing seven retailers — including Blockbuster Inc. and Toys R Us Inc. — of infringing a patent related to technology that allows companies to create customized Web pages for potential clients. http://www.law360.com/articles/122023 http://www.law360.com/articles/112799 Netflix Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. — already facing a putative class action claiming that they colluded to divide the rental and retail markets for DVDs, driving up Netflix subscription prices — have been hit with new claims that the alleged scheme allowed Wal-Mart to overcharge for DVD sales. http://www.law360.com/articles/112799 http://www.law360.com/articles/112520 In a bid to trim multidistrict litigation accusing Netflix Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of conspiring to divide the online DVD rental market, the companies have denounced the so-called speculative nature of claims brought by subscribers to Blockbuster Inc.’s online DVD rental service. http://www.law360.com/articles/112520 http://www.law360.com/articles/112189 In an infringement battle waged by a patent-holding company against a slew of companies that offer media files online, Quito Enterprises LLC and one of the defendants in the case, Amazon.com Inc., have moved to settle. http://www.law360.com/articles/112189 http://www.law360.com/articles/111377 A federal judge has signed off on Nutritional Sourcing Corp.'s amended disclosure statement, setting the stage for the bankrupt grocery and video store owner to solicit acceptances from creditors for its amended liquidation plan. http://www.law360.com/articles/111377 http://www.law360.com/articles/109950 The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has objected to Nutritional Sourcing Corp.’s latest plan of liquidation and disclosure statement, claiming the debtor has failed to justify proposed releases of liability in connection with unfunded employee pension plans. http://www.law360.com/articles/109950 http://www.law360.com/articles/109353 A federal judge has ruled that defunct video-on-demand service and Blockbuster Inc. subsidiary Movielink LLC did not infringe two claims of an American Patent Development Corp. patent on a method of limiting the use of a downloaded video program purchased by a customer. http://www.law360.com/articles/109353 http://www.law360.com/articles/107200 Netflix Inc. has won a summary judgment of noninfringement ruling and Blockbuster Inc. has had claims against it pared down in their patent spat with one-time search engine giant Lycos Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/107200 http://www.law360.com/articles/98971 With the passage of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive — Sweden's anti-piracy law — companies will have a stronger tool to shut down foreign-based sites that induce infringement of copyrighted works, says Wendy C. Freedman of LeClairRyan. http://www.law360.com/articles/98971 http://www.law360.com/articles/98424 A measure that would give shareholders a greater voice on how much executives earn at Pfizer Inc. squeaked through during its annual meeting on Wednesday, while a similar measure was struck down the same day by shareholders of Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/98424 http://www.law360.com/articles/92725 Online video game rental company GameFly Inc. has become the second defendant to reach a settlement with Media Queue LLC in a patent infringement suit that accuses several Internet-based media rental services of infringing a patented method of notifying customers by e-mail about the status of their rental accounts. http://www.law360.com/articles/92725 http://www.law360.com/articles/89840 Blockbuster Inc. has hired Kirkland & Ellis LLP to work on refinancing efforts but is not planning to file for bankruptcy, the company said Tuesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/89840 http://www.law360.com/articles/88827 A federal judge has removed Media Queue LLC's patent infringement suit against Netflix Inc., Blockbuster Inc. and others to a federal court in California over Media Queue's objections, calling the relationship between the defendants and the district where the suit was originally filed “at best, random and minimal.” http://www.law360.com/articles/88827