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  • Pestell v. Cytodyn Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-25
    Practice Area: Wage and Hour Litigation
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Hochman, Monzack Mersky McLaughlin and Browder, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Steven M. Coren, Benjamin M. Mather, Janice I. Daul, Kaufman, Coren & Ress, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Timothy M. Holly, Aaron M. Shapiro, Lauren P. DeLuca, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Laurence V. Cronin, Robert K. Beste III, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69203

    The court dismissed plaintiff's Pennsylvania wage claim because he did not qualify as an employee under that state's law.

  • Peloton Interactive, Inc. v. Echelon Fitness, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-08-05
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Flynn and Anthony D. Raucci, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven N. Feldman, Christina V. Rayburn, Karen Younkins, Kevin X. Wang and Maxwell K. Coll, Hueston Hennigan LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Benjamin J. Schladweiler, Douglas R. Weider and James L. Ryerson, Greenberg Traurig, Wilmington, DE and Florham Park, NJ for defendant.
    Case Number: D69058

    Plaintiff alleged sufficient facts to demonstrate that its patents involved an inventive concept, rather than an abstract idea.

  • Peloton Interactive, Inc. v. Echelon Fitness, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-07-22
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Flynn and Anthony D. Raucci, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven N. Feldman, Christina V. Rayburn, Karen Younkins, Kevin X. Wang and Maxwell K. Coll, Hueston Hennigan LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Benjamin J. Schladweiler, Douglas R. Weider and James L. Ryerson, Greenberg Traurig, Wilmington, DE and Florham Park, NJ for defendant.
    Case Number: D69058

    Plaintiff alleged sufficient facts to demonstrate that its patents involved an inventive concept, rather than an abstract idea.

  • Archer v. Defenders, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian D. Long, Rigrodsky&Long, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Ted E. Trief, Shelly L. Friedland, EyalDror, Trief&Olk, New York, NY; Peter S. Pearlman, Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP, Saddle Brook, NJ; Macy D. Hanson, The Law Office of Macy D. Hanson, PLLC, Madison, MS for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: J. Cory Falgowski, Burr & Forman LLP, Wilmington, DE; K. Bryance Metheny, Ronald W. Flowers, Jr., Martin E. Burke, H. Carlton Hilson, Burr & Forman LLP, Birmingham, AL for defendant.
    Case Number: D69030

    Court declined to dismiss opt-in plaintiffs from wage and hour collective action on grounds of judicial estoppel for those plaintiffs' failures to disclose their claims on their bankruptcy petition, where those plaintiffs either retained the opportunity to amend their bankruptcy petitions or where any inference of bad faith was not strong enough to warrant the sanction of dismissal.

  • River Valley Ingredients, LLC v. Am. Proteins, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-05-20
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Brauerman and Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Edward S. Sledge IV, Whitt Steineker, Zachary A. Madonia, Hillary C. Campbell and K. Laney Gifford, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Birmingham, AL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Philip A. Rovner and Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; J. Allen Maines, Caroline Johnson Tanner, A. André Hendrick, Matthew D. Friedlander, Patrick B. Reagin and Jacquelyn Thomas Watts, Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta, GA for defendants.
    Case Number: D68987

    Defendants were bound by a forum selection clause in an asset purchase agreement, so the court granted plaintiffs' motion to remand the case to state court.

  • Woodson v. Saul

    Publication Date: 2020-04-15
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Pinto Ross, Doroshow, Pasquale, Krawitz & Bhaya, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David C. Weiss, United States Attorney; Heather Benderson, Eric P. Kressman and Melissa K. Curry, Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.
    Case Number: D68948

    A decision by an administrative law judge was not supported by substantial evidence, so the court remanded for further con-sideration of issues relating to plaintiff's residual functional capacity and whether she was able to work on a regular and contin-uing basis.

  • Baggage Airline Guest Servs., Inc. v. Roadie, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-03-25
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Travel and Tourism
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal C. Belgam and Eve H. Ormerod, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stefan v. Stein and Cole Carson, GrayRobinson, P.A. Tampa, FL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Pilar G. Kraman, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Edward A. Pennington, John P. Moy, John P. Pennington, and Darlene K. Tzou, Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.
    Case Number: D68918

    Motion for attorneys' fees pursuant to the "exceptional case" standard for patent infringement cases denied where plaintiff's patent, although directed to a non-inventive concept, was not indicative of an exceptionally meritless claim, and where plaintiff's litigation conduct was not conclusively indicative of vexatious litigation conduct.

  • Terry v. Dover Police Dep't

    Publication Date: 2019-12-04
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alfred R. Terry, Georgetown, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D68795

    Governmental entities named in this civil rights suit were entitled to immunity, and the complaint failed to allege personal in-volvement on the part of the individual defendants. Complaint dismissed, with leave to amend.

  • Vectura Ltd. v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-09-25
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly E. Farnan and Christine D. Haynes, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Dominick A. Conde, Christopher P. Borello and Damien N. Dombrowski, Venable LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld and Jeremy A. Tigan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP,Wilmington, DE; Martin J. Black, Kevin M. Flannery, Robert Ashbrook, Sharon K. Gagliardi, Blake B. Greene and Katherine A. Helm, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D68716

    The court denied defendants' motion for judgment as a matter of law and alternative motion for a new trial, because the jury's verdict in this patent infringement matter was supported by the evidence.

  • Mfg. Res. Int'l, Inc. v. Civiq Smartscapes, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-09-18
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Advertising | E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arthur G. Connolly III, Ryan P. Newell and Kyle Evans Gay, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey S. Standley, James Lee Kwak and F. Michael Speed, Jr., Standley Law Group LLP, Dublin, OH for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John W. Shaw, Karen E. Keller, David M. Fry and Nathan R. Hoeschen, Shaw Keller LLP, Wilmington, DE; Douglas J. Kline, Srikanth K. Reddy, Molly R. Grammel and Naomi L. Birbach, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA and New York, NY; Yuval H. Marcus, Cameron S. Reuber, Matthew L. Kaufman and Lori L. Cooper, Leason Ellis LLP, White Plains, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D68707

    An expert witness in this patent litigation matter was entitled to present testimony regarding his reasonable royalty calcula-tions, but another expert's lost profits opinion was not based on sufficient reliable information.