Ross Todd

June 30, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Samsung Electronics has unleashed the latest salvo in its ongoing multi-front battle with Apple over patents covering smartphone and tablet technology. Last week a team from Steptoe & Johnson and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan filed this 21-page complaint in the International Trade Commission seeking to stop the import of popular Apple products into the United States.

By Ross Todd

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June 01, 2011 | New York Law Journal

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September 01, 2006 | Law.com

NASA general counsel Michael C. Wholley talks about practicing law in space.

By Ross Todd

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February 05, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Federal district court judge Cormac Carney had tossed the agency's civil cases against four former Broadcom executives last year. Although he allowed the agency to refile charges, he suggested it should not. The government complied.

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September 17, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Kent Roberts, the ex-general counsel of McAfee, accuses his former employer of making him the scapegoat in the company's stock option backdating scandal. What's more, he claims the company's outside lawyers at Howrey and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati helped to frame him.

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July 28, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Monday was a good news, bad news kind of day for FedEx on the labor and employment class action front. Yes, the Eleventh Circuit upheld the denial of class cert in a Florida wage-and-hour case. But meanwhile, the Indiana judge overseeing an MDL in which contract drivers claim FedEx owes them benefits certified classes in eight states. Looks like the FedEx labor lawyers still have plenty to keep them busy.

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August 23, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this week vacated a patent infringement judgment because the trial court incorrectly construed the term "wafer."

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February 29, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Lawyers for the shareholder plaintiffs at Robbins Geller can still amend their complaint, but Umpqua's directors and their lawyers at Wachtell are now officially the first to win dismissal of federal shareholder derivative claims stemming from a negative "say-on-pay" vote by shareholders in the wake of the Dodd-Frank Act.

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March 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

As he must have expected, Rajat Gupta's lawyer, Gary Naftalis of Kramer Levin, lost his bid to exclude government wiretap evidence from the former Goldman Sachs director's upcoming criminal trial. But he did persuade Manhattan federal district court judge Jed Rakoff that prosecutors must review files from the SEC's Gupta probe for possible Brady material.

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April 01, 2006 | Law.com

NAL Worldwide�s first GC, Gwen Hassan, finds a job that lets her work smart, not work more.

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