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  • ECB USA, Inc. v. Savencia, S.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-01
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Joel S. Magolnick, John E. Kirkpatrick, Marko & Magolnick, P.A., Miami, FL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David W. Marston, Jr., Jody C. Barillare, Brian F. Morris, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Troy S. Brown, Su Jin Kim, Margot G. Bloom, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Michael J. Ableson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 19-cv-00731-GBW

    Tortious interference and conspiracy claims failed where there was insufficient evidence that defendant had an ulterior motive to interfere with plaintiff's business relationship.

  • ECB USA, Inc. v. Savencia, S.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Stephen G. Harvey, Steve Harvey LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Joel S. Magolnick, John E. Kirkpatrick, Marko & Magolnick P.A., Miami, FL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David W. Marston Jr., Jody C. Barillare, Brian Morris, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Troy S. Brown, Margot G. Bloom, Su Jin Kim, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Michael J. Ableson, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 19-cv-731-GBW-CJB

    Court declined to rule on objection to denial of privilege waiver where there were genuine issues of material fact over party's control over its subsidiary, which underpinned the claim that the party caused the subsidiary to disclose privileged information to third parties.

  • ECB USA, Inc. v. Savencia, S.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-09
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Legal Services | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Stephen G. Harvey, Steve Harvey LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Joel S. Magolnick, John E. Kirkpatrick, Marko & Magolnick P.A., Miami, FL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David W. Martson Jr., Jody C. Bariilare, Brian Morris, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Troy S. Brown, Margot G. Bloom, Su Jin Kim, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Michael J. Abelson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 19-cv-731-GBW-CJB

    Court was not obligated to consider evidence of party asserting attorney-client privilege when ordering an evidentiary hearing where opposing party made a prima facie case for application of the crime-fraud exception.

  • Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. V. Sarpeta Therapeutics, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-17
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy M. Dudash, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Amanda S. Williamson, Christopher J. Betti, Krista L. Venegas, Maria E. Doukas, Zachary Miller, Guylaine Hache, Michael T. Sikora, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Chicago, IL; Eric Kraeutler, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Megan E. Dellinger, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Charles E. Lipsey, J. Derek , Ryan P. O'Quinn, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Reston, VA; William B. Raich, Michael J. Flibbert, Yoonhee Kim, Yoonjin Lee, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alissa K. Lipton, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.
    Case Number: 21-1015-GBW

    Claim that patent terms were indefinite due to being susceptible to multiple meanings for a POSA rejected where the scientific evidence demonstrated that a POSA would only understand the term as having one meaning, and where defendant attempted to incorporate limiting language not supported by the intrinsic record.

  • HID Global Corp. v. Vector Flow, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-27
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: E-Commerce | Manufacturing | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Jennifer Ying, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott D. Sherwin, Jason C. White, James J. Kritsas, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Chicago, IL; Natalie A. Bennett, Calvin M. Brien, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kelly E. Farnan, Nicole K. Pedi, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam Gershenson, Julianna Landsvik, Cooley LLP, Boston, MA; Heidi Keefe, Lowell Mead, Mark Weinstein, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Angeline X. Chen, Cooley LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 21-1769-GBW

    Disputed patent term was not a coined term where the term included part of another term stipulated as having a plain and ordinary meaning and there was nothing in the claim language to indicate that the remaining words of the term had anything other than their dictionary definition.

  • Persawvere v. Milwaukee Elec. Tool Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-07
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Consumer Products | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly Allenspach Del Dotto, Susan E. Morrison, Fish & Richardson P.C., Wilmington, DE; Kurt L. Glitzenstein, Jacob B. Pecht, Fish & Richardson P.C., Boston, MA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Amy M. Dudash, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason C. White, Scott D. Sherwin, Maria E. Doukas, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Chicago, IL for defendant.
    Case Number: 21-400-GBW

    Court declined to adopt limited construction of patent terms based on prosecution history where inventor had merely clarified patent to distinguish invention from prior art.

  • Affinity Empowering v. Eurofins Sci., Inc. Party

    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John V. Gorman, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Wilmington, DE; Raechel Kummer, Clara Kollm, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Washington D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jeffrey L. Moyer, Travis S. Hunter, Nicole K. Pedi, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE; Edmund M. Amorosi, Jennifer A. Mahar, Smith Pachter McWhorther PLC, Tysons Corner, VA for defendants.
    Case Number: 21-1843-GBW

    Court granted defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

  • Walley v. Amazon.com, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynette M. Walley, New Castle, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jody Barillare, Ann Marie Effingham, Emily C. DeSmedt, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: 21-1498-GBW

    Americans with Disabilities Act discrimination and failure to accommodate claims dismissed where plaintiff failed to allege sufficient facts to support a prima facie case and had improperly pled ADA claims against persons in their individual capacity.