John Quinn Faces Off with Federal Judge in Apple v. Samsung iPhone Case; Apple Seeks Severe Sanction

Updated: A name partner of litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has gotten crosswise with the federal judge hearing the the hard-fought patent case beween Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and counsel for his opponent is now trying to knock John Quinn out of the trial arena.…

Aug 2, 2012 5:37 PM CDT

Samsung Sanctioned in Big-Bucks Patent Case for Not Turning Off Company Email Auto-Delete System

A federal magistrate judge in California who is overseeing part of a big-bucks patent infringement case concerning Apple Inc.’s smartphones has sanctioned Samsung Electronics Co. over its use of its own proprietary email system. Finding that the Samsung system, which automatically deletes email after two weeks unless employees save them,…

Jul 26, 2012 4:48 PM CDT

Bilingual Lawyers in Demand, But Jobs Are Temporary; Apple Hires Korean Speakers in Samsung Spat

Lawyers who speak a second language are a hot commodity, though the jobs they are snagging are usually temporary. Apple’s law firms, for example, hired dozens of Korean speaking temporary lawyers in its patent litigation with Samsung Electronics over smartphone design, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. Patent and…

Jul 24, 2012 1:44 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Bar Associations Too Cautious on Ethics of Cloud Computing, Blogger Writes

Clouded Judgment At My Shingle, Washington, D.C., solo Carolyn Elefant takes various state bar associations to task for their uniformly similar recommendations that lawyers get their clients’ express consent when they store clients’ data in cloud platforms. “Not only does this kind of requirement throw up a red flag that…

Jul 13, 2012 1:30 PM CDT

Letters: Copyright Conundrums

Jul 1, 2012 9:40 AM CDT

New Laws of Nature Law: Ruling Questions Scientific Patents

Jul 1, 2012 8:10 AM CDT

Posner Takes a Swipe at Lawyers in Smartphone Patent Dispute; Will Other Judges Cite His Reasoning?

Sitting as a trial judge in a patent dispute between Apple and Motorola, Judge Richard Posner dismissed the case Friday, saying neither company is entitled to an injunction. His opinion also criticized the lawyers who, in his view, failed to garner adequate proof of damages. Posner, a judge on the…

Jun 26, 2012 10:30 AM CDT

Posner Tentatively Decides to Dismiss Apple-Motorola Patent Dispute, Cites Lack of Damages

A federal appeals judge who occasionally volunteers to handle trials apparently won’t be holding one in a dispute between Apple and Motorola over patents to technology used in Android mobile phones. In an order (PDF) issued Thursday, Judge Richard Posner said he had tentatively decided to dismiss the case in…

Jun 8, 2012 11:33 AM CDT

Google GC Sees Message in Verdict Rejecting Oracle Patent Claims

San Francisco jurors ruled for Google on Wednesday in the latest phase of an infringement trial involving smart phone technology. Jurors rejected all of Oracle Corp.’s patent claims over Google’s use of Java technology in Android smart phone software, report the Recorder, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) and the…

May 24, 2012 12:05 PM CDT

Harvard Had a Stronger Claim to Facebook than the Winklevoss Twins, Law Prof Says

Policies buried in college student handbooks are being cited by universities asserting that they are due a cut of the profits from inventions conceived on campus. Harvard wasn’t one of them, Stanford law fellow Brian Love writes in the Boston Globe. Facebook was invented by Mark Zuckerberg and his friends…

May 18, 2012 2:04 PM CDT

Judge Posner, Presiding at Patent Trial, Will Use Court-Appointed Experts to Explain Terms

Judge Richard Posner is experimenting with court-appointed experts in a patent dispute between Apple and Motorola. Though Posner is an appeals judge with the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, he likes to volunteer for trials, the Chicago Tribune reports. In a speech at the 7th Circuit Bar Association…

May 14, 2012 10:30 AM CDT

Quinn Emanuel Opens 2nd Office in Germany with 11-Lawyer A&O Team; More Euro, Asia Growth Planned

For the second time in a year or so, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has raided Allen & Overy to set up a new office in Germany. This time, Nadine Herrmann, formerly A&O’s local intellectual property practice group chief, led an 11-attorney group to Quinn, where they are now resident,…

May 1, 2012 5:46 PM CDT

Federal Judge in Oracle-Google Fight Displays Irritation for Coughing and Clacking

The San Francisco federal judge overseeing Oracle’s infringement claim against Google likes a quiet courtroom. Coughing lawyers and typing reporters beware. U.S. District Judge William Alsup interrupted voir dire on Monday when someone at Google’s counsel table started coughing, the Recorder blog Legal Pad reports. “Who is hacking and coughing?”…

Apr 18, 2012 11:38 AM CDT

Kagan Considers Meaning of ‘Not An’ in Ruling for Generic Drugmaker

A generic drug company that claims a brand-name competitor submitted an overbroad description of its patent to the Food and Drug Administration will get a chance to challenge the description in ongoing patent litigation. In a unanimous opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court said generic companies may bring a counterclaim in…

Apr 17, 2012 5:13 PM CDT

4-Lawyer IP Team Leaps from SNR Denton to Dallas Office of Patton Boggs

A four-lawyer team headed by partners Robert Hilton and Robert “Bob” H. Johnston III is making the move from SNR Denton to the Dallas office of Patton Boggs. The addition of the two partners and two associates will significantly enhance the firm’s intellectual property capabilities, the Dallas Business Journal reports.…

Apr 9, 2012 8:39 PM CDT