Represented Samsung Electronics in patent infringement
litigation against Apple relating to smartphone technology and designs.
You may have heard that the Department of Justice decided to launch antitrust
litigation against Apple and some major publishers for alleged price fixing and that most of them decided on the same day to settle.
Steve Berman, a partner at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro pursuing consumer class - action
litigation against Apple, called Cote's decision «a very big deal.»
Judge Denise Cote dismissed two publishers» claims of contributory infringement and inducement inAbbey House Media v. Apple Inc., one of the many cases to come out of the antitrust
litigation against Apple and a handful of major publishers.
Not exact matches
Litigation continues
against Apple, Inc., Holtzbrinck Publishers L.L.C. d / b / a MacMillian and Penguin Group (U.S.A.), Inc. and a trial is scheduled for June 2013.
For those of you who are following the Department of Justice's price collusion suit
against Apple et al, here is the
litigation schedule.
If
Apple pressed for a ban, it could signal its move to continue its acrimonious
litigation against Samsung.
Apple has lost two patent lawsuits
against Samsung and Motorola over touchscreen technology, ending the iPhone maker's victorious summer of
litigation.
A Wilmer Hale team, led by IP
litigation superstar Bill Lee, did a really superb job defending
Apple against Samsung's patents.
As I explained in a previous post, «the decision on
Apple's claims was very specific not only to the four patents at issue at that stage of the
litigation but also to the course of events in that
litigation (as I pointed out in my detailed analysis)», as evidenced by the fact that
Apple has meanwhile won two preliminary injunctions
against Samsung, while «Judge Posner's position on FRAND is universally - applicable, and it will be extremely influential, throughout and beyond the United States», to Google's (Motorola's) dismay.
D617, 334, and a day later,
Apple and Samsung filed a stipulation for the dismissal without prejudice (i.e.,
Apple could still enforce this patent
against Samsung in another
litigation) of this design patent.
Elly's work at Boies Schiller focused on major high - stakes disputes, including representing
Apple in its global antitrust
litigation against Qualcomm; Midtown Acquisitions LP, a Davidson Kempner affiliate, in its multi-jurisdictional judgment enforcement
against Essar Global Fund Limited; A1 noteholders in their successful High Court
litigation and settlement
against the Canary Wharf Group; a major hedge fund in relation to complex High Court proceedings
against Terra Firma Capital Partners» Four Seasons Healthcare Groups; and several significant commercial and investor - state arbitrations.
As a side note, the suit was filed by the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, which specializes in
litigation, is representing Motorola
against Apple on multiple fronts, and is known for its closeness to Google and long - standing relationship with IBM.
Over three million potential members of the class received information detailing the next phase in the
litigation — the trial to determine the extent of damages
against Apple.
She has successfully managed a docket of more than 1000 patent and other intellectual property matters, including the Viacom and other copyright
litigation against YouTube, and the
Apple, Microsoft and Oracle copyright and patent
litigation directed at Android.
This later patent (No. 5,946,647 shown below) has just now been returned to the Samsung
litigation based upon an order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which in an opinion last Friday (April 25, 2014) revived the patent by affirming a claim construction by Judge Richard A. Posner from a different case by
Apple against Motorola — Judge Posner's claim construction contrasted with that of Judge Luch Koh in the Samsung
litigation.
The
Apple v. Motorola
litigation in Chicago is going to be the next occasion on which this patent is asserted
against Android at trial (probably in the summer).
While technically non-final, the odds are long
against Apple getting this patent, shortly referred to as «D'677» in the Samsung
litigation, upheld.
Working with
Apple to secure major victories in its patent infringement
litigation against Samsung and representing Ford in its win in the company's largest patent
litigation in its history helped earn Lee a spot on the competitive list.
Apple's legal battle
against accusations that it intentionally slows down older iPhones to incentivize customers to upgrade to newer models will likely take place in one courtroom near the company's headquarters in California.The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict
Litigation has disclosed that it will consider consolidating dozens of iPhone performance - related complaints filed
against Apple during a hearing scheduled for Thursday, March 29 in Atlanta, Georgia, as is routine for similar cases filed across multiple states.
Apple currently faces 59 putative class actions across 16 district courts in the United States.
ConstitutionalChallenge.org is also contacting such anti-troll companies as
Apple, Google, Motorola, HP; the USPTO; the President, and discussing assisting them in starting their own similar anti-troll patent
litigations against the top corporate officers and patent attorneys of the patent trolls (AND Microsoft with Bill Gates et al. as well unless they assist in putting an end to IV, the World's largest patent troll).
The FTC and
Apple have opened
litigation against the chipmaker for anticompetitive practices.
Knowing that SAIC and VirnetX were plaintiff partners in the case
against Apple, one may infer SAIC transferred its patent portfolio to VirnetX solely for the purpose of
litigation, for the reasons discussed below.