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  • March 2, 2006

    WilmerHale Nabs IP Litigator For Budding California Office

    Trying to beef up the firm’s newly minted Palo Alto office, WilmerHale has hired seasoned intellectual property litigator Mark D. Flanagan, formerly of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, as the latest partner to join its California outpost.

  • March 1, 2006

    Quantum Surrenders To Sun Microsystems For $25M

    Conceding defeat, backup provider Quantum Corp. has agreed to pay $25 million to software giant Sun Microsystems Inc. to settle a long-simmering patent infringement suit over data storage system technology, just days before the trial was set to begin.

  • March 1, 2006

    Federal Circuit Rules For Jazz Photo In Camera Dispute

    In a setback for Fuji Photo Film Co. and the U.S. government in their attempt to push a disposable camera company out of the picture in the U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s final ruling Tuesday in favor of Jazz Photo Corp.

  • March 1, 2006

    Metrologic Ordered To Pay $13M Arbitration Award

    A federal judge has ordered barcode equipment maker Metrologic Instruments Inc. to pay a $13.4 million arbitration award to its rival after it allegedly failed to pay royalties on a patent license agreement.

  • March 1, 2006

    MedImmune Case: Implications For Licensing Agreements

    In agreeing to hear the case between MedImmune and Genentech, the U.S. Supreme Court will set a precedent for whether licensees in good standing are permitted to challenge licensed patents.

  • March 1, 2006

    Alza Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Ditropan XL

    Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Alza Corporation has been smacked with a class-action antitrust lawsuit, accusing the unit of illegally trying to keep generic versions of overactive bladder drug Ditropan XL off the shelf.

  • March 1, 2006

    Sanofi-Aventis Slaps Ranbaxy With Allegra Patent Suit

    Sanofi-Aventis’ battle with generic drug makers over its popular allergy medicine Allegra is raging on, with the French pharmaceutical giant slapping generic manufacturer Ranbaxy with a patent infringement lawsuit.

  • March 1, 2006

    Supreme Court Rules On Antitrust "Tying" Case

    In a ruling with broad implications for antitrust suits against patent holders, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Wednesday on an appeal by Illinois Tool Works Inc. that patents alone do not prove a company has market power in an industry.

  • March 1, 2006

    AstraZeneca Hit Again With Antitrust Charges

    A government service cooperative has charged AstraZeneca with violating U.S. competition law, the latest swipe in a string of suits filed by nearly a dozen unions, pension funds and government agencies accusing the pharmaceutical giant of illegally trying to prevent generic versions of its blockbuster heart drug, Toprol-XL, from entering the marketplace.

  • March 1, 2006

    Gateway Pays HP $47M to Settle Patent Litigation

    After an ongoing battle in court, industry rivals Hewlett-Packard and Gateway Inc. resolved their outstanding intellectual property litigation Wednesday, with Gateway agreeing to fork over $47 million to HP without admission of fault.

  • February 28, 2006

    Judge Reverses $51M Verdict In Medical Device Suit

    In a dramatic turnaround, a district judge has reversed a $51 million jury award to medical device maker Medtronic Navigation Inc., deciding after four months that its rival did not infringe the company’s patents for image-guided surgical techniques.

  • February 28, 2006

    DataTreasury Launches Fresh E-Banking Assault

    Check processing company DataTreasury Corp., which has made headlines by aggressively asserting its patents in the banking industry, has once again targeted dozens of institutions in a new patent infringement lawsuit.

  • February 28, 2006

    Injunction Clears Early Threat To TAP's Lupron Depot

    Generic drug maker QLT Inc. has been dealt yet another blow in its effort to maintain its presence in the market for prostate cancer treatments, with a federal judge issuing a damaging injunction and setting the stage for a drawn-out appeal.

  • February 28, 2006

    Federal Circuit Reverses Inequitable Conduct Finding

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave a district court a lesson in inequitable conduct Monday, reversing its findings in a nine-year-old battle and reviving a tool company’s defense against its rival.

  • February 28, 2006

    "Da Vinci Code" Not A Copycat, Says Publisher

    Opening arguments in the high-stakes battle over Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” began in the United Kingdom this week, pitting the author’s British publishers against historians Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.

  • February 27, 2006

    Group Moves To Thwart Tamiflu Patent In India

    Under India’s new patent laws allowing public opposition to patent grants, a Bangalore-based public interest group is preparing to file a pre-grant opposition to Roche’s Tamiflu, one of two drugs used to treat avian influenza.

  • February 27, 2006

    Quinn Emanuel Bumps All First-Years To $145K

    Less than five months after initiating a wave of salary hikes, the Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has announced that it will match new pay scales recently announced in New York, boosting first-year salaries to $145,000.

  • February 27, 2006

    Rambus Wins Right To Evidence In Antitrust Case

    Chip maker Rambus will soon have access to evidence of an alleged anti-competition scheme perpetrated by the company’s competitors, after a judge unsealed evidence relating to the antitrust case.

  • February 27, 2006

    Monsanto In $200M Settlement Over Hormone Patents

    The Regents of the University of California are walking away with a big win for their intellectual property, with chemical firm Monsanto Co. handing over $100 million to end a patent infringement lawsuit over a hormone for dairy cows.

  • February 27, 2006

    Samsung & Sprint Escape GPS Trial With Settlement

    Opting to settle rather than go to trial, telecommunications giants Samsung Electronics Co. and Sprint Nextel Corp. have put an end to a long-standing patent infringement lawsuit brought against them by New York-based engineering company ITT Industries Inc. over Global Positioning System technology.