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  • July 29, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Delaware Judge Finds Fairchild Willfully Infringed Power Integrations Patent

    Sometimes you have to admire defense counsel's desperate efforts of behalf of clients stuck in a very bad place (sort of like a rat chewing off its leg to get out of a trap). Orrick, Herrington &

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  • July 22, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Bratz Lives! In Blockbuster Appellate Victory for Orrick, Ninth Circuit Tosses $100 Million Mattel Verdict, Vacates Handover of MGA's Billion-Dollar Brand to Barbie's Parent

    Mattel's annihilation of the line of big-headed, slightly slutty Bratz dolls, which had replaced Barbie in the hearts of America's pre-tweens, was one of the biggest IP stories of 2008. Mattel's trial

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  • Clayworth v. Pfizer, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-07-12
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    Date Filed: 2010-07-12
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Appellant: Alioto Law Firm, Joseph M. Alioto, Joseph M. Alioto, Jr., Theresa D. Moore, Angelina Alioto-Grace, Thomas P. Pier; Law Offices of John H. Boone, John H. Boone; Foreman & Brasso, Russell F. Brasso; Law Offices of James M. Dombroski, James M. Dombroski; Law Offices of Jeffery K. Perkins, Jeffrey K. Perkins; Gary D. McCallister & Associates, Gary D. McCallister, Thomas A. Kelliher, Eric I. Unrein and Jaime Goldstein for Plaintiffs and Appellants. Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, Pamela M. Parker; Schubert Jonckheer Kolbe & Kralowec and Kimberly A. Kralowec for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants. Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason, Craig C. Corbitt and Henry A. Cirillo for Pharmacists Planning Services, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Respondent: Filice Brown Eassa & McLeod, Peter A. Strotz, Paul R. Johnson, William E. Steimle; Davis Polk & Wardwell, Ameila Starr, Arthur F. Golden, William J. Fenrich and Daniel J. Schwartz for Defendant and Respondent AstraZeneca LP. Winston & Strawn, Tyler M. Paetkau, Nicole P. Dogwill, James F. Hurst, Susan A. Pipal, Matthew J. Sullivan; Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg, David M. Stahl, J. Cunyon Gordon and Adam Oyenbanji for Defendant and Respondent Abbott Laboratories. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Jeffrey T. Thomas and James N. Knight for Defendant and Respondent Allergan, Inc. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Mayer Brown, Donald M. Falk, John Nadolenco, Mack Anderson; Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Steven O. Kramer, John P. Stigi III; Hogan & Hartson and Joseph H. Young for Defendant and Respondent Amgen, Inc. Covington & Burling, Elizabeth Abigail Brown, Anita F. Stork, Theodore Voorhees, Jr., and Thomas J. Cosgrove for Defendant and Respondent Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Paul J. Riehle, Matthew A. Fischer; Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Evan R. Chesler, Elizabeth L. Grayer, Jessica Buturla and Jeffrey B. Korn for Defendant and Respondent Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Reed Smith, Michael Diane Floyd, Kirsten J. Handelman; Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, Gary Hansen, David Graham and Aaron Mills Scott for Defendant and Respondent Eli Lilly & Company. Irell & Manella, Alexander F. Wiles, John C. Keith; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, George S. Cary, Sara D. Schotland and David I. Gelfand for Defendant and Respondent GlaxoSmithKline PLC. Drinker Biddle & Reath, H. Christian L?Orange, Paul H. Saint-Antoine, Mary E. Kohart, David J. Antczak and Joanne C. Lewers for Defendant and Respondent Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. Folger Levin & Kahn, Crowell & Moring, Beatrice Bich-Dao Nguyen, Samuel Ray Miller, Tracy E. Reichmuth, Cecilia C. Ogbu, Steven E. Wilson; Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, William Cavanaugh, Jr., and Cecilia B. Loving for Defendants and Respondents Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc., Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc., Ortho Biotech, Inc., and Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc. Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Rita M. Haeusler, John M. Townsend, Scott H. Christensen, James A. Graffam; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Robert P. Reznick and David Goldstein for Defendant and Respondent Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. formerly known as Merck & Co., Inc. Kaye Scholer, Aton Arbisser, Bryant S. Delgadillo, Saul P. Morgenstern, Karin E. Garvey; Faegre & Benson, James A. O?Neal and Kim J. Walker for Defendant and Respondent Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Nossaman, Gunther, Knox & Elliott, Nossaman, Scott DeVries, Katrina June Lee; Dickstein Shapiro, Peter J. Kadzik, Bernard Nash, Maria Colsey Heard, Milton Marquis and Andres Colin for Defendant and Respondent Pfizer Inc. Latham & Watkins, Charles H. Samel, Jennifer A. Carmassi, Margaret M. Zwisler, Steven H. Schulman and Belinda S. Lee for Defendant and Respondent Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Arnold & Porter, Ronald C. Redcay, Douglas L. Wald, Mark R. Merley, Daniel R. Waldman, Anne P. Davis and Ryan Z. Watts for Defendant and Respondent Wyeth.
    Case Number: No. S166435

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 87895JAMES CLAYWORTH et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. PFIZER, INC., et al., Def

  • February 22, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Clipping IP Team From Rival, Firm Grows on Left Coast

    Dickstein Shapiro is expanding its intellectual property practice on the West Coast with a new deputy practice leader in Los Angeles and immediate plans to open an office in Sil

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  • August 6, 2013 | The Recorder

    Judge Curbs Damages in Lawrence Livermore Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — An Oakland judge has dismissed claims for punitive damages in an age bias case against the management of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, dashing hopes of a

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  • November 15, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    District Courts May Get Firms' Unfinished Business

    When it comes to litigation involving defunct law firms, clawback suits may be on the way out—of bankruptcy court, that is. In a series of recent court actions involving the Couder

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  • May 14, 2007 | Legal Times

    Keeping Score

    Reunited . . . and It Feels So GoodWhat fun would antitrust lawyers have if they couldn't find ways to reunite companies that were previously split up as a result o

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  • December 16, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Mattel Seeks to Disqualify Opposing Counsel in Bratz Fight

    Lawyers representing Mattel Inc. in its ongoing legal dispute with the manufacturer of Bratz dolls have filed a motion to disqualify opposing counsel Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro,

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  • December 20, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    More Departures at Dewey Firm Ahead of Merger Washington, D.C.'s Covington & Burling has recruited three New York partners from Dewey Ballantine. Benjamin Hoch and Dianne Co

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  • June 3, 2010 | Legal Times

    Gitmo detainee loses in sealed ruling

    A federal appeals court in Washington Wednesday ruled in favor of the Justice Department in upholding the detention of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who the government claimed was an al-Qaida fi

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