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  • February 5, 2008

    Ford Must Fork Over $6.5M To Rollover Victim

    A Texas jury has reportedly ruled that Ford Motor Co. must shell out $6.5 million to a 41-year-old man who was left brain-damaged after being ejected from his Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle in a rollover accident.

  • February 5, 2008

    Oracle Claims Broader Infringement Scheme By SAP

    The bitter trade secrets dispute between software rivals Oracle Corp. and SAP AG has taken another turn, with Oracle alleging that SAP engaged in wider copyright infringement than originally thought.

  • February 5, 2008

    EDS Sues Mobile Phone Cos. Over Prepay Patents

    Electronic Data Systems is suing cellular phone companies Virgin Mobile USA Inc., TracFone Wireless Inc. and MetroPCS Communications Inc. for allegedly infringing two prepaid phone service patents.

  • February 5, 2008

    AmeriFirst Exec In Contempt For Selling Picture

    The managing director of disgraced securities company AmeriFirst Funding Inc. has been found in contempt for violating an asset freeze imposed after he was accused of conning elderly investors out of roughly $35 million, by selling a painting that was included in the freeze.

  • February 6, 2008

    Morgan Lewis Adds Energy Transactions Partner

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has continued its drive to expand its presence in Texas with the addition of corporate and energy attorney Bill Parish as a partner in the firm's business and finance practice group.

  • February 4, 2008

    Trainers Sue Physical Therapists, Claiming Monopoly

    The National Athletic Trainers' Association Inc. has accused the American Physical Therapy Association of maintaining a monopoly in the market for physical therapists by keeping fitness trainers from completing the coursework necessary to compete.

  • February 4, 2008

    Mosaid Settles With 2 Defendants In DRAM Dispute

    Canadian Semiconductor company Mosaid Technologies Inc. has reached a settlement with two of the four defendants it accused of infringing its patents covering dynamic random access memory technology.

  • February 4, 2008

    BP Hit With $8.7M Suit Over Propane Scheme

    BP Products North America Inc. was hit with a lawsuit Friday alleging BP schemed to corner the market on propane in the gas distribution network of eastern Texas.

  • February 4, 2008

    Approval Unlikely For Google-Yahoo Pact: Experts

    While a Microsoft Corp. acquisition of Yahoo Inc. could pass muster with regulatory officials, a deal involving Google Inc. and Yahoo has a greater chance of getting shot down because of Google's dominance in the Internet search and online advertising markets, antitrust experts said on Monday.

  • February 4, 2008

    Judge Allows Supplemental Briefs In Enron Suit

    Though the U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to hear a case filed against Enron's major underwriters, the plaintiffs will have one last chance to prove their claims against the banks.

  • February 4, 2008

    DOJ Passes On Katrina Whistleblower Suit

    The U.S. Department of Justice has refused to become involved in a whistleblower lawsuit that alleges State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. and other insurers tried to bilk the government in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

  • February 4, 2008

    Plaintiffs Refile Tyson FLSA Claims In Texas

    Two Tyson Foods Inc. workers, whose previous Fair Labor Standards Act claims against the company were dismissed, have filed a putative collective action in Texas, accusing the company of not paying employees for all time spent working.

  • February 1, 2008

    Patent-Holding Co. Refiles Cisco Infringement Suit

    Patent-holding company ESN LLC has refiled a patent lawsuit against Cisco Systems Inc. and its subsidiary Cisco-Linksys LLC, a few months after dropping an identical suit over voice over Internet protocol technology.

  • February 1, 2008

    Tennessee Workers Peck Tyson With FLSA Suits

    Tyson Foods Inc. workers in Tennessee are expected to have their wage-and-hour lawsuits conditionally certified as collective actions after filing the suits before a court-imposed deadline.

  • February 1, 2008

    Trek Memory Stick Patent Revoked In U.K. High Court

    Trek 2000, maker of portable digital storage devices such as flash memory sticks, has suffered a defeat before the U.K.'s High Court of Justice, losing its bid to hold on to a patent in a case brought by M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd.

  • January 31, 2008

    Court Upholds $73.9M Award In EchoStar, TiVo Battle

    A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that EchoStar Communications Corp. infringed TiVo Inc.'s patent covering digital video recording software and has affirmed nearly $74 million in damages.

  • February 1, 2008

    Halliburton Assault Case Must Be Arbitrated: Judge

    A civilian contractor who alleges she was sexually assaulted on two separate occasions while working for Halliburton Co. in Iraq must arbitrate her claims against the company rather than pursuing them before a jury, a federal judge has ruled.

  • January 31, 2008

    Samsung, Matsushita Settle Semiconductor Disputes

    Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and its rival Samsung Electronics have settled all ongoing patent infringement suits in the United States and Japan over semiconductor technology, the companies announced Wednesday.

  • January 31, 2008

    Sybase Files Lawsuit Over Columnar Database Patent

    Sybase Inc. has sued rival software company Vertica Systems Inc. for allegedly infringing one of its columnar database patents.

  • January 31, 2008

    Lowe's Home Faces Six FLSA Suits

    Lowe's Home Centers Inc. has been hit with a putative collective action alleging that the home improvement retailer violated federal law by failing to pay salaried sales employees in Florida a premium rate for overtime hours.