A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators, led by Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy, is poised to agree on a compromise bill that would overhaul the U.S. patent system. Details of the plan, which is opposed by inventors, have not been revealed publicly. However, Leahy told the Associated Press the plan “will benefit all corners of the patent [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 25, 2010
Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, February 25, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… Morrison Foerster added a lateral in New York… A former US Attorney joined up with Locke Lord… Marc Daniel joined Arnold & Porter in Washington DC… Latham & Watkins added one in Hong Kong… Revenues dipped slightly while profits stayed flat at Arent Fox… And speaking of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 24, 2010
A decision by an Italian court to convict three Google executives of privacy violations has drawn outrage on both side of the Atlantic Ocean. Officials for the Internet company used words like “astonishing” and “outraged” to describe the decision. Even the former information commissioner of the United Kingdom, Richard Thomas, said the case gave privacy [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
Google and its Buzz technology have been hit with a class-action complaint filed by a 24-year-old Harvard Law student. Working with law firms in San Francisco and Washington D.C., Eva Hibnick filed what is the first reported suit against Google ‘s Buzz, a social network that launched last week. According to the complaint, Google automatically signed-in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 18, 2010
Attorneys from Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, LLP, representing Consumer Watchdog, will appear in federal court today to urge the rejection of the revised Google Books settlement because it remains anticompetitive and violates both U.S. and international law. The proposed class action settlement case stems from a suit brought by The Authors Guild and the Association [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Gordon & Doner, West Palm Beach injury attorneys, have filed suit against an unknown copier as John Doe, and GoDaddy.com after learning its own website, fortheinjured.com, had been copied and passed off as a British law firm, maslinassociates.com. Except for some minor changes, the fraudulent site used, in many cases, the same text, designs and even [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 19, 2009
Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, November 19 and this is your quick look back at the headlines. A judge in Louisiana held that the US Army is liable for some Katrina damage… Google debuts its new case law database…. Winston & Strawn has two new offices in Asia… David Hamilton is getting his up or down vote [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
I’m sure this will come as a surprise to everyone, but according to Google “Distinguished Engineer” Anurag Acharya, “Court opinions don’t just describe a decision but also present the reasons that support the decision”. So much for the theory that judges are arbitrary and capricious! Acharya’s pronouncement on the state of the law is the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 10, 2009
The Podesta Group has added at least six principals this year. Podesta saw a 44% rise in gross lobbying revenue from 2007 to 2008. So far this year, the firm has filed 18 registrations for new federal lobbying clients, including Deloitte, Michelin North America, and Sallie Mae. The firm’s existing clients include Google, Wal-Mart, and Reed Elsevier, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
TradeComet.com LLC, a New York-based company, claimed in federal court on Tuesday that Google Inc. violated antitrust laws by raising a subsidiary’s advertising rates after deciding the subsidiary was a competitor. In its suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, TradeComet.com claims that Google initially supported SourceTool.com, TradeComet’s subsidiary. SourceTool.com [...]
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