September 30, 2022
Intellectual property attorneys may not be automatically drawn to pretrial decisions in antitrust cases or discovery issues in multidistrict litigation over misusing data, but in this new series, Law360 breaks down why five seemingly irrelevant cases are worth your time.
September 26, 2022
A Delaware federal court on Monday refused to let construction equipment giant Caterpillar Inc. escape claims that it pressured an online auctioneer to break its contract with a would-be competitor, but said there was no evidence tying Komatsu America Corp. to the alleged scheme.
August 18, 2022
Construction equipment giants Caterpillar Inc. and Komatsu America Corp. told a Delaware federal court on Thursday that they never pressured an online auctioneer to break its contract with a would-be competitor, International Construction Products LLC, and insisted that antitrust allegations against them are baseless.
August 10, 2020
A Delaware federal judge agreed Monday to transfer to Florida previously dismissed claims in a long-running antitrust suit alleging Caterpillar, Komatsu and certain equipment dealers tried to strong-arm a competitor out of the construction equipment business, but said claims against the two manufacturers would stay put.
October 11, 2019
Caterpillar Inc. and Komatsu America Corp. have failed to escape antitrust claims accusing them of trying to strong-arm a competitor out of the construction equipment business, despite a Delaware federal judge slicing the long-running suit to the bare bones.
January 16, 2019
International Construction Products LLC urged a Delaware federal court Tuesday not to toss its suit accusing Caterpillar Inc. and other manufacturers of keeping it out of the construction equipment market, saying it provided the court with enough evidence of antitrust violations.
December 05, 2018
Caterpillar Inc. moved to hoist an antitrust suit from an online competitor out of Delaware federal court but kept its legal reasoning under wraps Tuesday amid a flurry of filings by several heavy-equipment manufacturers trying to get the claims dismissed.
August 22, 2016
Caterpillar Inc., Komatsu America Corp. and a Volvo unit got partial relief from a Delaware federal judge Monday when he tossed two counts of an antitrust lawsuit, trimmed the grounds for two others and refused to reinstate counts he dismissed earlier, leaving two federal and eight state claims for the manufacturers to answer.
March 04, 2016
Caterpillar, Komatsu and a Volvo unit said Thursday that a Delaware federal judge should repeat his dismissal of an antitrust suit accusing them of plotting a boycott to foil a construction equipment importer's market entry, arguing that the importer hasn’t fixed the problems that sank its original complaint.
February 05, 2016
A construction equipment importer on Thursday urged a Delaware federal court to rethink its dismissal of an antitrust suit accusing Caterpillar, Komatsu and a Volvo unit of plotting a boycott to keep Chinese equipment from being sold online, arguing an amended complaint will resolve any factual defects.