Will the jury in Apple's blockbuster iPhone and iPad copycat trial care that Samsung "kept the shredder on" when it knew litigation was on the horizon? Barring a last-minute settlement shocker, it looks like we're going to find out. Plus, Apple asks for treble damages, upping the price tag for Samsung's alleged infringement to $7.5 billion.

As co-defendants caved to Soverain and signed hefty licensing agreements, the electronics retailer Newegg stood its ground--even when the judge admitted evidence of Soverain's lucrative licenses with Amazon and The Gap. The jury didn't give Newegg a pass, but its verdict may limit Soverain's licensing power.

The Kirkland team gained important ground for Apple in the escalating smartphone patent wars when they convinced an ITC judge that HTC had infringed two of their client's patents.

Olav Refvik, the former head of Morgan Stanley's global oil trading business, sought $30 million in damages related to bonuses he claimed he was owed.

Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway chipped away at their significant antitrust exposure on Tuesday, fending off a lawsuit brought by the mining company Oxbow Carbon & Minerals.

The cert grant comes less than a month after the U.S. asked the high court to resolve the parameters of the Bayh-Dole Act, which governs ownership of research backed by federal funds. Roche, which has twice defeated Stanford's claims in lower courts, says the patent at issue wasn't developed with government money.

A company director who pledged all his stock to a merger can sue over allegedly false statements in the merger registration statement — even if he made the pledge long before the registration statement was drafted.

In its first ruling under a pilot arbitration program for large cases, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued a divided decision ordering Morgan Stanley to pay a former energy trader $8 million.

An East Texas federal jury concluded Friday that Barnes & Noble didn't infringe a patent owned by Alexsam Inc., a patent holding company that sued B&N and six other major retailers over their use of gift card technology.