Apr 13
In an April 2011 ruling, a federal judge in Tyler, Texas, threw out a $625 million jury award against Apple. In the October 2010 trial, a jury decided that Apple infringed three patents owned by Mirror Worlds. The patents involve certain document display technologies used in Apple’s Time Machine, Spotlight and Cover Flow. These features …
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Apr 05
Here is the picture that Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City (photo provided by Resorts) provides for what they expect of their cocktail waitresses. Unless you look like this, don’t bother applying for their cocktail server position. And, unless, you look like this, you might not be able to keep the cocktail waitress job that you already have. Consequently, the Resorts Casino Hotel …
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Mar 21
A Lone Pine order is a case management device in which the judge requires the plaintiff to make a prima facie showing of injury, causation, and/or damages. Its purpose is to simplify or eliminate cases to lessen the burdens on the courts and defendants. In a Lone Star order, plaintiffs are required to show an …
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Feb 17
As part of the Obama administration’s “Middle Class Task Force Initiative”, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently teamed up with the American Bar Association (ABA) to help plaintiffs obtain legal counsel for claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Under this new …
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Feb 16
It wasn’t long ago that Michael Vick was the highest paid player in the NFL and was frequently tapped for high profile endorsement deals with companies such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Kraft and Hasbro. But when news of his dog fighting activities surfaced, the endorsement deals came to a grinding halt. A prison sentence and a bankruptcy …
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Feb 07
In a nearly 400-page opinion in January, a Manhattan federal judge (Robert Sweet) denied motions to dismiss a securities class action against Bear Stearns, Deloitte & Touche, and seven individual defendants. As one might imagine from its length, the Court thoroughly addresses the allegations, and rebutted the defendants’ reasons for dismissal. Here is a background …
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Jan 11
The Federal Circuit ruled in Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. (January 4, 2011) that the widely used but fatally flawed 25 percent rule can no longer be part of reasonable royalty damages calculations. The rule has been widely used to calculate reasonable royalty damages for over two decades. Generally speaking, the rule pushed patent …
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