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  • April 2, 2008

    Merck Seeks To Quash Ranbaxy's Subpoenas

    Merck & Co. Inc. has taken its frustrations over multiple subpoenas from generic-drug maker Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. to a judge, claiming that the requests for information on Merck's blood pressure drug Enapren amounted to an international fact-gathering expedition.

  • April 2, 2008

    Call Center Workers Sue Dell For Unpaid Wages

    Sales representatives in Dell Inc.'s Texas call center have launched a nationwide collective action alleging the computer giant breached the Fair Labor Standards Act by denying them overtime and failing to keep an accurate record of their work hours.

  • April 2, 2008

    New Patent Injected Into Becton's Syringe Feud

    Safety-syringe-maker Retractable Technologies Inc. wasted no time filing a new suit against medical technology giant Becton Dickinson and Co. after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent on Tuesday that the plaintiff claims is infringed by Becton Dickinson's retractable syringes.

  • April 2, 2008

    Expert Says FEMA Knew About Trailer Toxicity

    As lawmakers continue to explore the Centers for Disease Control's responsibility in the controversial trailers issued to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita victims, a top toxicologist has testified that his repeated warnings about the dangerous levels of formaldehyde in the government-issued temporary homes fell on deaf ears.

  • April 2, 2008

    Dueling Seismology Patents Spur Lawsuit

    A Texas company that provides seismic analysis services to the petroleum industry has alleged that geopressure detection technology disclosed in a patent owned by Australia's national science agency overlaps claims in its own earlier patent.

  • April 3, 2008

    House Committee Approves Tobacco Regulation Bill

    A U.S. House of Representatives committee has voted for a measure that would give the Food and Drug Administration more power to regulate tobacco products and cigarette marketing aimed at young people.

  • April 2, 2008

    DOE's Depleted Uranium Could Be Worth Billions: GAO

    The U.S. government could generate billions of dollars from the sale of depleted uranium now in storage if it could get authorization from Congress, according to a report from the U.S. General Accounting Office.

  • April 2, 2008

    AT&T Faces More FLSA Suits By Call Center Workers

    Workers at AT&T Inc. call centers in Wisconsin and Illinois have hit the telecommunications company and its subsidiaries with putative collective actions for unpaid overtime and wages, claiming violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

  • April 2, 2008

    HCC Settles Derivative Suit Over Options Backdating

    A federal court has given its final seal of approval to a settlement between Texas-based HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. and shareholders who sued on behalf of the company over alleged stock options backdating.

  • April 1, 2008

    Hyundai Loses Bid To Nullify $34M Patent Ruling

    Nearly a year after losing a $34 million verdict to licensing company Orion IP LLC for infringing an online sales method patent, Hyundai Motor America has lost its bids both to render the patent unenforceable and to lower the award.

  • April 15, 2008

    Hire Sheet: Law Firms Hired For Major IP Litigation

    AOL, Twentieth Century Fox Film and Sony Ericsson Mobile were just some of the companies that hired law firms to work on major IP litigation in recent weeks, according to our daily review of court dockets.

  • April 1, 2008

    TI, Intel Did Not Infringe Processor Patent: Fed. Circ.

    A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court's summary judgment grant that the claims of Microprocessor Enhancement Corp.'s patent covering digital signal processors were invalid but affirmed the court's judgment that Texas Instruments Inc. and Intel Corp. did not infringe the patent.

  • April 2, 2008

    Navajo, Citizens Energy Plan Wind Power Project

    The Navajo Nation has reached a deal with Boston-based Citizens Energy Corporation to build a wind-power plant on Navajo land to deliver over 500 megawatts of power, a representative for the tribe's legal counsel said on Tuesday.

  • April 1, 2008

    SunCom Fails To Get Phone Patent Suit Dismissed

    A Texas judge has derailed an attempt by SunCom Wireless Inc. to dismiss a patent suit against it for lack of jurisdiction.

  • March 31, 2008

    Harvard Endowment Eyes Pacific Lumber Land

    Harvard Management Corp., which stewards Harvard University's $35 billion endowment, is considering purchasing tracts of Pacific Lumber Co.'s California redwoods forests, the bankrupt lumber company has revealed.

  • April 1, 2008

    Medtronic Dispute With Cordis To Stay In Texas

    A federal judge has denied Cordis Corp.'s request to move a consolidated patent dispute filed by rival Medtronic Inc. from Texas to California.

  • March 31, 2008

    Katten Adds IP Partner In Chicago

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has continued to boost its intellectual property practice with the addition of Robert B. Breisblatt as a partner in the firm's Chicago office.

  • April 1, 2008

    Clear Channel's Unfair Conduct Proof 'Paltry': Judge

    A Texas court has granted plaintiff Grantley Patent Holdings Ltd.'s motion for summary judgment of no inequitable conduct in a patent suit against Clear Channel Communications Inc., labeling Clear Channel's evidence in support of its inequitable conduct claims “scant” and “paltry.”

  • March 28, 2008

    Tetra Hit With Securities Class Action

    Oil and gas services company Tetra Technologies Inc. and two of its top executives have been hit with a proposed class action accusing them of fraudulently inflating the value of the company's stock.

  • March 28, 2008

    Katz, Kaiser Strike Voice-Tech Patent Deal

    Health care organization Kaiser Permanente has settled an infringement suit filed by billionaire inventor Ronald A. Katz over patents for interactive voice applications.