Intellectual Property, Securities Law

In re Wayport, Inc. Litig., Consol. C.A. No. 4167-VCL (Del. Ch. May 1, 2013) (Laster, V.C.)

by Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP on 5/8/2013

In this opinion, the Court of Chancery, applying the “special facts doctrine,” rejected the plaintiffs’ claims for breach of the fiduciary duty of loyalty against the defendants arising out of sales of the plaintiffs’ stock...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Lehman Test Case on Judicial Nullification [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 5/7/2013

May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Although Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is out of bankruptcy a year, the case continues to make law. As Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg News bankruptcy columnist Bill Rochelle discuss on their...more

Business Litigation Report -- March 2013

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 4/3/2013

In This Issue: - Firm News: Quinn Emanuel Recognized as a “2013 Go-To Law Firm for Top 500 Companies” and Quinn Emanuel Named Law360 Class Action Practice Group of the Year - Main...more

How Facebook's Lawyers Price Their Services [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 3/7/2013

March 7 (Bloomberg Law) -- Silicon Valley's Fenwick & West -- which incorporated Apple and took Facebook public -- recently hired a new kind of staff position: a product manager charged with helping clients understand the...more

Weekly Brief: Rakoff Orders Gupta To Pay Goldman Sachs' Legal Fees [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 2/28/2013

Feb. 28 (Bloomberg Law) -- Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia runs through the legal news for the week. Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff ordered former Goldman Sachs' director Rajat Gupta to reimburse the investment bank for fees...more

China 20/20 Legal Regulatory Developments - February 2013

by Seung Chong, Elizabeth Cole, Veronica Lockyer, Yan Zeng | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 2/24/2013

In This Issue: - The Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Labor Contract Law of the People's Republic of China Released - MOFCOM Solicits for Public Comments on the...more

Cybersecurity: The Next Big Wave in Securities Litigation?

by King & Spalding on 2/24/2013

News broke this week about significant cybersecurity breaches at many U.S. corporations that raises the possibility of a new wave of SEC enforcement actions, class actions, and derivative lawsuits. A front page New York Times...more

Maintaining Our Focus - Winter 2013

by David Rosenblatt, Mark Schonfeld, Matthew Tuttle | Burns & Levinson LLP on 2/15/2013

In This Issue: - Message from the Managing Partner - Amazing Clients®: ACell: Medical Miracles - The Age of Bionic Reconstruction Arrives - Rethinking Today’s “Fixed Income” Investments - Can Gray...more

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – February 13, 2013

by Rob Robinson on 2/13/2013

Recognized nationally in Forbes’ Law and Technology Blog as a leading source of trusted eDiscovery information, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange newsletter is published weekly to provide legal and technology...more

Business Litigation Report -- January 2013

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 2/7/2013

In This Issue: Shifting the Growing Costs of E-Discovery; Quinn Emanuel Continues the Expansion of International Arbitration Practice with the Addition of Stephen Jagusch; Aesthetic Functionality and the Use of “Color...more

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – February 6, 2013

by Rob Robinson on 2/7/2013

Recognized nationally in Forbes’ Law and Technology Blog as a leading source of trusted eDiscovery information, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange newsletter is published weekly to provide legal and technology...more

Bernstein Shur Business and Commercial Litigation Newsletter #24

by Paul McDonald, Daniel J. Murphy | Bernstein Shur on 2/4/2013

We are pleased to present the 24th edition of the Bernstein Shur Business and Commercial Litigation Newsletter. This month, we highlight recent decisions addressing the statute of repose for securities fraud claims, the...more

Technology Disputes and Securities Law - When CIO or CTO Needs to Talk to CLO/GC?

by Jan Lindberg on 1/29/2013

This blog post discusses IT and technology disputes and when such disputes can have securities law consequences requiring CTO/CIO to discuss with legal. ...more

Weekly Brief: Patent Jury Awards, Law Firm Hiring, Scalia's Hat [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 1/24/2013

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg Law) -- Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia runs through the legal news for the week. Last year we saw large jury awards in patent cases, but also a steep drop off in securities class action lawsuits. Also, law...more

Skadden's 2013 Insights: Global Litigation

by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/21/2013

New legal ground is expected to be broken this year in areas of importance to companies and their directors, officers and executives. We see those developments coming from around the globe and defining the litigation...more

BLG Monthly Update for January 2013

by Neil Guthrie on 1/3/2013

Pot-smoking teens, ownership of e-mail, insider trading on false info -- all this and more in the BLG Monthly Update for January 2013!...more

Microsoft Court Holds Right to Replicate Software Is an Intangible Property Right for Purposes of California’s Sales Factor...

by Marty Dakessian, Mike Shaikh, Kyle O. Sollie, Brian W. Toman | Reed Smith on 12/28/2012

Earlier this week, the California Court of Appeal, First District, held that the right to replicate and install software is an intangible property right for sales-factor sourcing purposes. Thus, for the years at issue, the...more