• Walsh v. White House Post Prod., LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-04-08
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Andrews, Law Office of Joseph Andrews, Dover, DE; Joseph K. Jones and Anand A. Kapasi, Jones, Wolf & Kapasi, LLC, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: S. Mark Hurd, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Antony S. Burt and Jin Yan, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, IL for defendants.

    Case Number: D68940

    An LLC buyout provision was a form of option contract, so the court denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiffs' breach of contract claim.

  • Purohit v. Legend Pictures, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-04-08
    Practice Area: Intellectual Property
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Devlin and James Lennon, Devlin Law Firm LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Sloan, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; David Grossman, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: D68937

    Plaintiff failed to state a claim for direct copyright infringement because no substantial similarity existed between plaintiff's work and that of defendant. Plaintiff's work was not entitled to moral rights protection, because it was not a work of visual art.

  • In re: Tribune Media Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-03-18
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68912

    Debtors' objection to defamation claims sustained where plaintiff failed to prove by preponderance of the evidence that allegedly defamatory newspaper article contained misstatements or omissions of material facts.

  • Ogus v. SportTechie, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-19
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Brad Davey and Matthew A. Golden, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gregory A. Markel and Tonya M. Esposito, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, New York, NY and Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Art C. Aramilla, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants Bloom, Bodie and Kaufman. Brian M. Rostocki, Benjamin P. Chapple, Justin M. Forcier and Michael S. Leib, Reed Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE and Chicago, IL for defendants SportTechie, Inc. and Oak View Group, LLC.

    Case Number: D68885

    Plaintiff adequately stated claims for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract after he was forced out of a company, but the court dismissed some of his aiding and abetting claims.

  • KnighTek, LLC v. Jive Commc'ns, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-12
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan P. Newell and Lauren P. DeLuca, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Rudolf Koch, Robert L. Burns and Nicole K. Pedi, Richards, Layton & Finger P.A., Wilmington, DE; William Trach, Latham & Watkins LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.

    Case Number: D68873

    Plaintiff alleged its fraud claims with sufficient particularity, and the allegations suggested that defendant's representations were made with knowledge of their falsity, rather than being mere opinion or puffery.

  • Quarum v. Mitchell Int'l, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-05
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Insurance | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David P. Primack and David W. Giattino, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Noah Jarrett of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC, Portland, OR for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John P. DiTomo, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael A. Duffy and Michael C. McCutcheon, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Chicago, IL for defendant.

    Case Number: D68869

    A complaint contained sufficient allegations to support some of the breach of contract claims, and the election of remedies doctrine did not preclude relief.

  • Tibco Software Inc. v. Mediamath, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-22
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Scott
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josiah R. Wolcott, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Newark, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Matthew P. Ward and Nicholas T. Verna, Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, Wilmington, DE; Usher Winslett, Winslett Studnicky McCormick & Bomser LLP, New York, NY for defendant.

    Case Number: D68852

    The court had previously ruled that a genuine issue of material fact existed with regard to a liability limitation provision, so plaintiff was not entitled to summary judgment.

  • Personal Audio, LLC v. Google, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-22
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Farnan and Michael Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Douglas Hahn and Salil Bali, Stradling Yoc-ca Carlson & Rauth, P.C., Newport Beach, CA; Henning Schmidt, Minghui Yang, R. Floyd Walker, Victor Hardy and William Parrish, Hardy, Parish, Yang, LLP, Austin, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian Egan and Jack Blumenfeld, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Antonia Sistos, Da-vid Perlson and Melissa Baily, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, San Francisco, CA for defendant.

    Case Number: D68850

    The court issued its claim construction order after hearing the parties' objections to the recommenda-tions of a magistrate judge.

  • Sprint Commc'ns Co. L.P. v. Frontier Commc'ns Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Fallon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68844

    Plaintiff's motion to amend to name additional parties stated sufficient facts to support the existence of an agency relation-ship and joint infringement.

  • beIN Media Group LLC v. bein.qa

    Publication Date: 2020-01-08
    Practice Area: Trademarks
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodger D. Smith II, Michael J. Flynn, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter H. Kang, Ash Nagdev, Sidley Austin LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Theodore W. Chandler, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angles, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: N/A

    Case Number: D68830

    Default judgment granted where party that had registered infringing internet domain had delayed resolution of the case by failing to comply with the terms of the parties' settlement agreement and failed to otherwise appear or file an answer in the action.