• January 29, 2019 | Law.com

    Skilled in the Art: Lathrop Wins at 'Game of Life' + Everything You Wanted to Know About Patent Mediation + Another Round of Musical First Chairs at Google?

    The 25-page opinion issued settles a long-running beef, but is rife with puns and references to the popular board game.

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  • January 27, 2019 | International

    The Asian Lawyer Announces Finalists for 2019 Asian Legal Awards

    Clifford Chance, Skadden, Hogan Lovells and Withers are among the contestants for the awards that will be announced on March 21 at the Renaissance Harbour View Hotel in Hong Kong.

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  • Appellate Division, Second Department:January 23, 2019

    Publication Date: 2019-01-25
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, Second Department:January 23, 2019

  • January 3, 2019 | Daily Report Online

    Georgia Sues Opioid Makers Over Marketing

    Attorney General Chris Carr hired The Barnes Law Group, The Cooper Firm, Franklin Law and Beasley, Allen four months ago to go after drugmakers.

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  • December 17, 2018 | International

    Baker McKenzie, Freshfields Advise on Hitachi's $6B Acquisition of ABB's Power Grid Unit

    The deal will be the Japanese company's largest-ever acquisition and make the Tokyo-based conglomerate the world's second-largest heavy electrical equipment maker by revenue.

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  • December 12, 2018 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: Dec. 13, 2018

    Shearman, Allen & Overy advised on a $1.7 billion energy project in Indonesia, Mayer Brown on a $1.2 billion Japanese mining deal, and Wilson Sonsini, Shearman on a $1.1 billion Chinese biotech listing in Hong Kong.

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  • December 7, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

    NJ Legislature Pilloried, High Court Praised in Tort-Reform Group's Annual 'Hellholes' Report

    Seeing fit to expand its target list to include lawmakers in addition to jurists, the tort-reform group known for issuing an annual report declaring certain jurisdictions "judicial hellholes" has taken to task the New Jersey Legislature for what it calls a pro-plaintiff series of measures, but offers some rare praise to the New Jersey Supreme Court,

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  • U.S. v. Stewart

    Publication Date: 2018-11-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY: Sarah K. Eddy, Brian Blais, and Margaret Garnett, on the brief, Brooke E. Cucinella, Assistant United States Attorneys
    for defendant: For Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY: Sarah K. Eddy, Brian Blais, and Margaret Garnett, on the brief, Brooke E. Cucinella, Assistant United States Attorneys

    Case Number: 17-593

    Conviction Vacated, Remanded; Excluded Post-Arrest Statements Might Have Influenced Jury

  • Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-11-07
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph J. Farnan, Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Amy K. Wigmore, Gregory H. Lantiere, Heather M. Petruzzi, Tracey C. Allen, Jeffrey T. Hanston, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dale LLP, Washington, DC; Kevin S. Prussia, Andrew J. Danford, Timothy A. Cook, Kevin M. Yukerwich, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dale LLP, Boston, MA, attorneys for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Arthur G. Connolly, III, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Neal C. Belgam, Eve H. Ormerod, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stamatios Stamaulis, Richard C. Weinblatt, Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC, Wilmington, DE; Karen L. Pascale, Robert M. Vrana, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; John C. Phillips, Jr., David A. Bilson, Phillips, Goldman, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David Ellis Moore, Bindu Palapura, Stephanie E. O'Byrne, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sean M. Brennecke, Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dominick T. Gattuso, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for defendants.

    Case Number: D68342

    Court rejected more restrictive construction of patent claims where intrinsic evidence indicated that patentee did not intend to apply different definitions when using term in different applications or to restrict measurement techniques to meet patent specification for active particles.

  • October 31, 2018 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: Nov. 1, 2018

    • Baker Botts, Fried Frank act on Australian engineering group's $3.3B U.S. acquisition. • Cleary, Skadden advising a $825 million South Korean solar take-private deal. • Magic Circle trio on first Chinese company's $464 million listing in Germany.

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