Jan Wolfe

July 08, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Was Orrick spooked by a senior partner's involvement in a corporate espionage case related to China's hunger for GMO seed technology? The firm won't say, but the partner is gone and the firm has withdrawn from the high-profile case even as it continues to expand.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

July 07, 2014 | Litigation Daily

The Federal Circuit ruled Monday that Intel's computer chips don't infringe on tiny X2Y Attenuators' patents, dealing a final blow to X2Y's unlikely bid to block sales of Apple and Hewlett-Packard computers that use the Intel chips.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

July 07, 2014 | Litigation Daily

While most people were enjoying the tail end of a long holiday weekend, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff was busy Sunday delivering a key victory to foreign banks targeted by Irving Picard, the liquidation trustee for Bernie Madoff's defunct investment firm.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

July 06, 2014 | Litigation Daily

In the span of less than a week, the former U.S. solicitor general unraveled the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate and derailed a threat to the broadcast and cable TV industries.

By Jan Wolfe

4 minute read

July 03, 2014 | New York Law Journal

With a potential fraud conviction in his future, Paul Ceglia is digging into the past to fight criminal charges that he fabricated a contract and other evidence in his failed suit claiming to own 50 percent of Facebook Inc.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

July 02, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Irell & Manella's John Hueston said the SEC once appeared on the brink of bringing insider trading claims against ex-Goldman Sachs banker Matthew Korenberg.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

July 02, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Which jurisdiction, Eastern Texas or Northern California, will oversee Apple's proxy patent war with Google? Both of them, according to a new order from U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap in Marshall, Tx., who refused to cede the litigation to another judge in San Francisco.

By Jan Wolfe

2 minute read

July 01, 2014 | Litigation Daily

The EEOC closed out 2013 with a key win in its discrimination case against Mach Mining, persuading an appeals court that the agency's targets can't second-guess its prelitigation conduct. Now the EEOC is facing a much bigger test at the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

July 01, 2014 | Litigation Daily

With a potential fraud conviction in his future, Paul Ceglia is digging into the past to fight criminal charges that he fabricated a contract and other evidence in his failed suit claiming to own a 50 percent of Facebook Inc.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

July 01, 2014 | International Edition

A proposed E.U.-U.S. trade treaty could mean more international arbitration. That's one reason many Europeans oppose it.

By Jan Wolfe

12 minute read