• DRIT LP v. Glaxo Group Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-09
    Practice Area: Intellectual Property
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory P. Williams, Chad M. Shandler, Nicole K. Pedi, Richards, Layton & Finger P.A., Wilmington, DE; Keith R. Hummel, Karin A. DeMasi, Adam I. Rich, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Philip A. Rovner, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew M. Wolf, John E. Nilsson, Soumitra Deka, Bridgette Boyd, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: N16C-07-218 WCC CCLD

    Statutory disclaimer was effective once patent holder submitted disclaimer form authorizing payment of the filing fee to the patent holder's deposit account with the PTO.

  • Olsen v. Fisher-Price, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-17
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: Consumer Products | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Leoni, Shelsby & Leoni, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Alan M. Feldman, Daniel J. Mann, Edward S. Goldis, Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, Tanner, Weinstock & Dodig, LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Liza Zwally Brown, Corrine R. Moini, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N21C-02-097 WCC

    Although Missouri law did not allow application of the discovery rule to toll or extend the statute of limitations on wrongful death claims, defendants could be equitably estopped from asserting a statute of limitations defense if they engaged in intentional concealment of evidence of the dangerous nature of their product.

  • Pedicone v. Thompson/Center Arms Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-22
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph J. Rhoades, Stephen T. Morrow, Rhoades & Morrow LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael A. Trunk, Thomas E. Bosworth, Kline & Spector, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Timothy Jay Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anthony M. Pisciotti, Danny C. Lallis, Pisciotti Lallis Erdreich, Florham Park, NJ for defendants.

    Case Number: N17C-11-264 WCC

    Court correctly precluded plaintiffs' expert from testifying that a new weapon design was evidence of an alternative feasible design for a prior version of the weapon designed decades ago since such evidence would ignore the normal progress of technological development.

  • State v. McGuiness

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Denney, Jr., Maria Knoll, Nicole Mozee, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven P. Wood, Chelsea A. Botsch, Dean A. Elwell, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2206000799

    Defendant was granted judgment of acquittal on violation of state procurement law where legislature and state officials had only criminalized the splitting of public contracts to avoid accounting oversight, but defendant had merely split invoices and did so at the vendor's request for fewer hours at the beginning of the contract.

  • German v. Skinner

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Periann Doko, Kent & McBride, P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Susan List Hauske, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, De for defendants.

    Case Number: N21C-09-118 WCC

    Court granted defendants' motion to dismiss claim arising out of a personal injury suit where plaintiffs attempted to file a consortium claim although they had previously signed a release and indemnity agreement in exchange for $5,000.

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  • Hull v. The Bd. of Educ. of Brandywine Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-16
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony N. Delcollo, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: James H. McMackin, III, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D69923

    James Hull appealed from the Brandywine School District's board of education decision to terminate Hull's employment as the driver's education teacher at Concord High School. Hull had worked as a driver's ed teacher at Concord High School for approximately 20 years.

  • Council of the Vill. of Fountianview Condo. v. Corrozi-Fountain View LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Construction | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake A. Bennett, C. Scott Reese, Dean R. Roland, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David L. Baumberger, Law Offices of Chrissinger & Baumberger, Wilmington, DE; Kevin J. Connors, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; Louis J. Rizzo, Jr., Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP, Wilmington, DE; Josiah R. Wolcott, Connolly Gallagher, Newark, DE; Thaddeus J. Weaver, Dilworth Paxson LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69862

    Defective construction claims by condominium association were timely filed where receiver who previously controlled condo was appointed solely to complete construction and limit the losses of the mortgagee, such that the limitations period did not start running until the association of ow ners took control.

  • State v. McGuiness

    Publication Date: 2022-05-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Denney, Jr., Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven P. Wood, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69832

    Court sanctioned prosecution by excluding any evidence obtained from seized electronic devices from the state's case in chief where investigators took over six months to access and turn over device contents.

  • Pedicone v. Thompson/Center Arms Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-03-08
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph J. Rhoades, Stephen T. Morrow, Rhoades & Morrow LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael A. Trunk, Thomas E. Bosworth, Kline & Specter, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Timothy Jay Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anthony M. Piscotti, Danny C. Lallis, Pisciotti Lallis Edreich, Florham Park, NJ for defendants.

    Case Number: D69740

    Failure to read user/instruction manual for product precluded a user injured by the product from pursuing a failure to warn claim.

  • Leaseweb USA, Inc. v. Centro, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-07
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: E-Commerce | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl D. Neff, Fisher Broyles, LLP, Wilmington, DE; William J. Akins, Fisher Broyles, LLP, Austin, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Clarissa R. Chenoweth-Shook, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69634

    The court held that because plaintiff and defendant produced plausible interpretations of the term at issue, it made the contract ambiguous and not appropriate for summary judgment.