http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Ramey & Flock Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132731 Realtime Data LLC has won court approval for a settlement and licensing deal with F5 Networks Inc. and one of its customers, putting to rest allegations that the companies infringed seven patents covering compression-based data acceleration technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/132731 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/127419 A federal judge has rejected Dell Inc.'s counterclaims of noninfringement and invalidity in tossing its abandonment defense and refusing its request to dismiss a suit accusing the computer giant of infringing an Abstrax Inc. patent related to a method for assembling products with a computer. http://www.law360.com/articles/127419 http://www.law360.com/articles/124781 Typhoon Touch Technologies Inc. has wasted no time in appealing a claims construction ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas that scuttled its suit against Dell Inc., Apple Inc. and others over touch computing patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/124781 http://www.law360.com/articles/124282 Having netted a handful of settlements over its touch computing patents, Typhoon Touch Technologies Inc. has decided to concede the fight against the nine remaining defendants, including Dell Inc., Apple Inc. and Palm Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/124282 http://www.law360.com/articles/120724 American Messaging Services LLC has become the latest defendant to reach a settlement in patent-holding company Eon Corp. IP Holdings LLC's suit accusing nearly 20 companies of infringing two Eon patents covering two-way communications technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/120724 http://www.law360.com/articles/119691 Patent-holding company Eon Corp. IP Holdings LLC has reached another settlement in its infringement suit over two patents covering two-way communications technology, this time with Carrier Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/119691 http://www.law360.com/articles/118625 A federal judge has slashed Mallinckrodt Inc.’s potential payout in a feud with E-Z-EM Inc. over medical injectors, barring the plaintiffs from seeking damages for indirect infringement based on the sale of syringes, conceivably for use with the injectors, that occurred before the suit’s filing in 2007. http://www.law360.com/articles/118625 http://www.law360.com/articles/116575 Nighthawk Systems Inc. has become the latest defendant to reach a settlement in an infringement suit brought by Eon Corp. IP Holdings LLC over two patents covering two-way communications technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/116575 http://www.law360.com/articles/116263 Sharp Corp. and Dai Nippon Printing have failed in their bid to toss a suit filed by Advanced Technology Incubator Inc. alleging that they infringed patents related to liquid crystal display color filter manufacturing technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/116263 http://www.law360.com/articles/115656 API Technologies LLC has reached a settlement with Amazon.com Inc. in a patent suit it filed against 24 Internet companies over data network technology, and has dropped its claims against Facebook Inc. in the same suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/115656 http://www.law360.com/articles/111039 Alleging that more than 40,000 responsive documents were not timely produced, E-Z-EM Inc. and ACIST Medical Systems Inc. have requested that a court sanction Kirkland and Ellis LLP, which represents two Tyco Healthcare Group LP subsidiaries, for alleged failure to comply with discovery obligations in a patent spat over medical fluid injectors. http://www.law360.com/articles/111039 http://www.law360.com/articles/108622 A federal judge has granted Belkin Inc.'s request to transfer a patent dispute between it and Taiwan-based Aten Technology Inc. to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, despite his apparently dim view of a Belkin co-defendant's actions. http://www.law360.com/articles/108622 http://www.law360.com/articles/108219 A federal judge has certified a collective action brought by former employees of Tyler Technologies Inc., a software provider to the public sector, who allege they were not paid overtime in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. http://www.law360.com/articles/108219 http://www.law360.com/articles/107942 Communications provider Comverse Inc. is the latest company to end litigation with Klausner Technologies Inc. in an infringement suit over visual voice-messaging technology, leaving Embarq Communications Inc. as the last of nine defendants named in the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/107942 http://www.law360.com/articles/104415 T-Mobile USA Inc. and other cellular carriers targeted in Tendler Cellular of Texas LLC’s infringement suit have fired back that the patent-at-issue, which covers a system that locates a wireless caller for 911 services, is unenforceable due to inequitable conduct. http://www.law360.com/articles/104415 http://www.law360.com/articles/101982 RadioShack Corp. 401(k) plan members have moved to certify a class that could include up to 13,000 employees, in a multidistrict lawsuit that accuses the company of breaching its fiduciary duty by allowing plan members to invest in an underperforming, scandal-tainted mutual fund. http://www.law360.com/articles/101982 http://www.law360.com/articles/100072 Clarion Corp. of America has reached a settlement with patent-holding firm Affinity Labs of Texas LLC, which has sued a group of stereo manufacturers for allegedly infringing its patent for connecting portable audio devices to car sound systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/100072 http://www.law360.com/articles/97595 Months after a federal jury awarded Mass Engineered Design Inc. $3 million in an infringement case against Dell Inc., Ergotron Inc., CDW Corp. and Tech Data Corp. over a patent for multiscreen display units, a federal district judge has granted Mass Engineered an injunction against the defendants and denied the defendants' motions for judgment as a matter of law. http://www.law360.com/articles/97595 http://www.law360.com/articles/91938 Hitachi Ltd. has won summary judgment that four patents held by LG Electronics Inc. are exhausted, negating LG's infringement claims against Hitachi in a case involving the same patents and similar arguments as a case against Quanta Computer Inc. in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against LG last year. http://www.law360.com/articles/91938