Rambus is still paying for its decision to shred reams of documents before it launched a litigation campaign against a big swath of the semiconductor industry. The latest blow came on Friday, when the judge most sympathetic to Rambus over the years ruled that the company spoliated evidence and signaled that he would reduce a $397 million judgment that Rambus won against rival SK Hynix in 2009.

An iconic liquor scored an injunction against an alleged copycat and a small furniture maker accused a larger retailer of ripping off its designs. In the smartphone wars, Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. uncovered some ammunition in its bid to undo the $1 billion verdict it lost to Apple in August.

Charlie Verhoeven from Quinn Emanuel helped to coordinate litigation in Nokia's global IP dispute with Qualcomm. Here, he talks about the patent litigation going global.

An army of lawyers for BP, Transocean, the DOJ and others began staking out their positions at trial on Monday in New Orleans, nearly three years after the catastrophic spill that fouled the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding coastlines.

Cite as: Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC, 06 CV 5936, NYLJ 1202486126807, at *1 (SDNY, Decided March 10, 2011)District Judge Kimba M. Woodp class="dec

Quinn Emanuel's annihilation of Barbie's big-headed, slightly slutty rival was one of the biggest IP stories of 2008. And now the Ninth Circuit has wiped it out.