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Patent Litigation Weekly: When $25 Million Isn't All That Much
By Joe Mullin
DeepNines collected $25 million when it won an infringement suit against anti-virus software giant McAfee Inc. two years ago. But after paying off its Fish & Richardson lawyers and outside investors at Altitude Capital Partners, DeepNines wound up with less than $800,000 of that $25 million. And now DeepNines is being sued by Altitude for another $5 million. A revealing look at how a leading player in the lawsuit-investment trade does business.
Centocor's Record-Setting &1.7 Billion Patent Verdict Survives Abbott Posttrial Motions
By Andrew Longstreth
Last summer, after Johnson & Johnson's Centocor Ortho Biotech unit won the largest patent infringement award in history against Abbott Laboratories, Abbott said it was confident it would prevail on appeal. The company is still saying that, reports sibling publication The Am Law Litigation Daily, even though the federal judge who oversaw the trial has denied Abbott's posttrial motions.
In Latest Venue Dispute Ruling, Delaware Court Transfers Part of Patent Case to Texas
By Sheri Qualters
A federal judge's decision to send part of a patent infringement case involving software giant Microsoft Corp. to the Eastern District of Texas is the latest example of the federal courts' shifting approach to patent litigation venue battles, reports sibling publication The National Law Journal.
Is Intellectual Ventures revving up its lawsuit machine?
Patent-holding giant Intellectual Ventures appears to be connected to a lawsuit recently filed in Chicago. That raises questions about what the company's next move is -- and whether we'll know it's IV's move at all.
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High-Tech Tug of War
By Eriq Gardner
The fight over who controls the iPhone, and what it says about the mounting tension between stopping piracy, spurring innovation, and giving consumers what they want. (From the August/September issue.)
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Protecting Trademarks in Hard Economic Times
By Thomas Casagrande
Slashing trademark-related legal work in response to the recession may be shortsighted. In fact, it may even be squandering an opportunity.
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