Eight years after U.S. vitamin purchasers leveled antitrust claims against a group of Chinese drug makers, lawyers for the class are finally making their case before a jury. On Wednesday, Boies Schiller's William Isaacson got a chance to try to discredit the defendants' star witness, a Chinese official who testified that the defendants fixed prices because their government commanded it.

The secretive and extremely well-funded patent aggregator had its doubters when it said it wasn't going to follow the troll model. But so far Intellectual Ventures has raked in at least a half-billion dollars in licensing deals, without ever filing an infringement suit.

Toyota's lawyers had argued that class members whose cars had no defect had suffered no harm and thus had no standing to sue. Not so, said Judge James Selna, kicking off a markedly pro-plaintiffs tentative opinion.

Though it's only filed eight complaints since first turning to the courts a year ago to enforce its massive patent portfolio, Intellectual Ventures has already tapped a varied roster of firms. On Thursday IV added Dechert to the list in a suit claiming that AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile infringe 15 patents related to wireless technology.

Despite the efforts of Chevron's lawyers at Latham & Watkins, plaintiffs lawyers won a chance to press class claims that gas retailers misled consumers by not disclosing that the energy content of fuel decreases in hot weather.

Joe Mullin takes a closer look at Google's defense victory last month in the Eastern District of Texas, where it defeated claims by two entrepreneurs seeking $600 million.