Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner Matthew Douglas Powers defended his own trial conduct and raised questions about arguments by opposing counsel in a brief for Microsoft in the software giant’s…
A trial judge’s grant of summary judgment for defendant Novell in a key portion of a dispute over the ownership of the Unix code was overturned yesterday by a federal…
A patent holding company has sued Foley & Lardner, claiming that the law firm disclosed confidential patent information learned during settlement talks.
Attorneys for Microsoft are presumably busy this weekend, following a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to grant the computer goliath’s request for an expedited…
After Microsoft lost two big jury verdicts in patent infringement cases this spring, many observers expressed doubt that the computer goliath would ever have to ante up.
A New York-based intellectual property boutique allegedly agreed that Raj Davé would be repaid the $92,000 in “working capital” he gave Darby & Darby while practicing there as a nonequity…
A three-lawyer group led by the former head of patent litigation in the Boston, Palo Alto, Calif., and Washington, D.C., offices of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom started work…
A federal appeals court has refused to toss a lawsuit by a 50-lawyer personal injury law firm that claims another two-lawyer law firm used its copyrighted website content.
A graduate student in physics who illegally—and willfully—downloaded 30 songs on the Internet must pay $675,000 in damages, a federal jury in Boston decided today.
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