Lumish and his team landed at Latham & Watkins from Kasowitz Benson on Thursday, looking to get a jump on building "the best patent litigation group in the world" from their anchorage in Silicon Valley.

Motorola Mobility started the week off on a high note, winning separate rulings at the U.S. International Trade Commission that both Apple's iPhone and iPad and Microsoft's XBox infringe Motorola patents. The decisions are preliminary, but they augur well for the cases--and for Google's decision to acquire IP-rich Motorola Mobility in defense of Android.

In an amended complaint, Apple added a dozen new devices and a whole lot of detail to its suit against Samsung for allegedly copying the iPhone and iPad, right down to the packages they're sold in.

The key issue is whether a Stanford researcher who developed a patented method for testing the effectiveness of HIV treatments did so while using federal funds through the university or while working at a private company now owned by Roche. The SG contends IP rights belong to Stanford; Roche vehemently disputes his interpretation of the law at issue.

The suit that Susman Godfrey brought for bond insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd against Flagstar Bank over $1 billion in mortgage-backed securities may have a lower profile than MBIA's $3 billion case against Countrywide. But Assured v. Flagstar may turn out to be a another crucial test case in the monolines' ambitious litigation.

To mark the tenth-anniversary of the Arbitration Scorecard, the Litigation Daily will be spotlighting some of the biggest disputes featured in The American Lawyer's survey of international arbitration. In this installment, we look at the $3.4 billion dispute between Occidental Petroleum and the Republic of Ecuador, and the $7.5 billion controversy between Citigroup and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor have fired back at Rambus Inc. in the appeal of their three-month price-fixing trial, arguing that two California judges properly excluded evidence of a co-conspirator's guilty plea agreement.

Apple and its lawyers at Morrison & Foerster won another round in their patent battle with Samsung on Tuesday, when an Obama administration official refused to override an ITC order blocking Samsung from importing certain smartphones and tablets into the U.S.

After seeing its $172.5 million award go up in smoke at the Ninth Circuit, Bratz doll manufacturer MGA Entertainment hopes to revive its claims that Barbie maker Mattel Inc. stole its trade secrets by sending masquerading employees to toy fairs.

The wide-ranging patent fight between Apple and Samsung took another unusual turn this week, when Apple's lawyers at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr broke the news at the ITC that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Samsung's patent licensing strategies.