• Rockwell Automation, Inc. v. EU Automation, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-08
    Practice Area: Trademarks
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dominick T. Gattuso, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul Tanck, Neal McLaughlin, Alston & Bird LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Edward F. Maluf, Jeremy A. Cohen, Owen R. Wolfe, Jeremy Schachter, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 21-1162 (MN)

    Motion to transfer venue granted where alleged conduct took place nationally and defendant's preferred forum was much more convenient for both parties, while the current court had a substantially more congested docket.

  • ArcherDX, LLC v. Qiagen Sci., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-10-18
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Leigh J. Martinson, Keith Toms, Jill Mello, Ph.D., Wyley S. Proctor, McCarter & English, LLP, Boston, MA; Michael A. Albert, Eric J. Rutt, Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., Boston, MA; Edward R. Reines, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Redwood Shores, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David E. Moore, Bindu A. Palapura, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; David Bilsker, Andrew Naravage, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, San Francisco, CA; Anne Toker, James E. Baker, Anastasia M. Fernands, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, New York, NY; Jeffrey C. Wu, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Salt Lake City, UT for defendants.

    Case Number: 18-1019 (MN)

    Renewed judgment as a matter of law in patent infringement case denied where jury heard sufficient evidence to support a finding that defendants' products satisfied the construed or plain meanings of the claim limitations of the patents-in-suit, and where defendants admitted to knowledge of the patents and the potential for infringement.

  • United States v. United States Sugar Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Antitrust
    Industry: Federal Government | Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura Hatcher, Shamoor Anis, United States Attorney’s Office, Wilmington, DE; Brian Hanna, Jonathan Y. Mincer, Jenigh Garrett, Jill Ptacek, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jack Blumenfeld, Brian Egan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Lawrence Buterman, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY; Amanda Reeves, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC; Elyse M. Greenwald, Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Daniel K. Hogan, Daniel C. Kerrick, Hogan McDaniel, Wilmington, DE; Peter J. Schwingler, Stinson LLP, Minneapolis, MN; Kelly E. Farnan, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Amanda L. Wait, Vic Domen, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Washington, DC; Darryl Wade Anderson, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Houston, TX; Christine A. Varney, David R. Marriott, Peter T. Parbur, Timothy G. Cameron, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 21-1644 (MN)

    Court denied a request by plaintiff to enjoin an acquisition of a sugar company the Government argued would result in a monopoly of the sugar market in the southeastern United States. The court reviewed evidence from trial noting that the markets for industrial consumers were different from retail consumers, thus broadening the base and the market. The court further found that plaintiff's argument was undermined by the fact that they control the sugar supply within the United States.

  • Rigby v. Jennings

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: Consumer Products | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley P. Lehman, Gellert Scali Busenkell & Brown LLC, Wilmington, DE; Edward Paltzik, Joshpe Mooney Paltzik LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Patricia A. Davis, Kenneth L. Wan, Andrew R. Fletcher, Deputy Attorneys General, State of Delaware, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-1523 (MN)

    Plaintiffs were granted preliminary injunctive relief on state criminal laws that prohibited the manufacture and possession of unserialized firearms and firearm components when such firearms and components were lawfully acquired and manufactured by individuals, as such restrictions violated Second Amendment rights.

  • Rockwell Automation, Inc. v. EU Automation, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-06
    Practice Area: Trademarks
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dominick T. Gattuso, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul Tanck, Neal McLaughlin, Alston & Bird LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Edward F. Maluf, Jeremy A. Cohen, Owen R. Wolfe, Jeremy Schachter, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, New York, NY for defendant.

    Case Number: D69945

    Defendant in trademark infringement action was subject to specific personal jurisdiction where it actively undertook sales of infringing goods into the jurisdiction, even though such sales only represented a small fraction of defendant's overall revenue.

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  • In re: The Weinstein Co. Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-08-23
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Crain Martin, Matthew S. Sama, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Brett Ingerman, DLA Piper LLP (US), Baltimore, MD; Rachel Ehrlich Albanese, DLA Piper LLP (US), New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert S. Chapman, Sauer & Wagner LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Adam G. Landis, Kerri K. Mumford, Landis Rath & Cobb LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D69931

    Bankruptcy court correctly interpreted asset purchase agreement as entitling affiliate to payment on his participation interest where APA expressly identified the interest as a permitted lien that purchaser remained subject to, and thus the broader, general exclusion of obligations to debtor's affiliates did not control.

  • Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC v. Eton Pharm., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-23
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory R. Booker, Robert M. Oakes, Douglas E. McCann, Fish & Richardson P.C., Wilmington, DE; Corrin N. Drakulich, Christina D. Brown-Marshall, Dexter S. Whitley, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Atlanta, GA; Karrie Wheatley, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Houston, TX; Elizabeth M. Flanagan, Deanna Reichel, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Minneapolis, MN; Jonathan E. Singer, Fish & Richardson, P.C., San Diego, CA; Satish Chintapalli, Chintapalli Law Firm, PLLC, Cary, NC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Timothy Devlin, Peter A. Mazur, Neil A. Benchell, Stephanie Berger, Robert Kiddie, Devlin Law Firm LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69932

    After defendant admitted that its product met the limitations of the patents in suit, the court found it liable for infringement after defendant presented insufficient evidence to prove that the patents in suit were invalid as anticipated or obvious under the prior art.

  • Lamplugh v. PFB Energy

    Publication Date: 2022-08-09
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George Lamplugh, Glen Mills, PA, pro se plaintiff;
    for defendant: Peter L. Frattarelli, Kevin F. Shaw, Archer & Greiner, P.C., Wilmington, DE, attorneys for defendants.

    Case Number: D69915

    Former supervisor did not commit defamation where they provided HR for plaintiff's prospective employer with arbitration decision related to plaintiff's termination from prior employment, particularly where the supervisor had gone to work for the prospective employer and had common interest.

  • In re: Essar Steel Minnesota LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-08-02
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Construction | Manufacturing | Mining and Resources
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garvan F. McDaniel, Daniel K. Hogan, Hogan McDaniel, Wilmington, DE; Stephen W. Tountas, Robert W. Novick, Melissa Barahona, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Mark E. Felger, Simon E. Fraser, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Karen M. Grivner, Clark Hill PLC, Wilmington, DE; Scott N. Schreiber, Michael P. Croghan, Clark Hill PLC, Chicago, IL for defendants.

    Case Number: D69909

    Motion for leave to appeal bankruptcy court's ruling on the applicable statute of limitations denied where resolution of the issue would not exclude most, if any, of the litigation trustee's fiduciary claims against defendants, and therefore would not materially advance the litigation.

  • Swiderski v. Frabizzio

    Publication Date: 2022-07-26
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alice T. Swiderski, Newark, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Samuel J. Frabizzio, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69898

    Service on law office was not proper where process server left papers with office secretary, without identifying himself or the nature of the papers, and the secretary was not authorized to accept service of process.