• Prolitec Inc. v. ScentAir Tech., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Consumer Products | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bryson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-984-WCB

    Court granted defendant summary judgment on literal infringement where making a component of device removable to satisfy the patent claim scope would irreparably damage the device, which meant the device could not reasonably literally infringe upon the patent.

  • Hulton v. Artesian Water Co.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Hulton, Lincoln University, PA, plaintiff pro se.
    for defendant: Lauren Elizabeth Moak Russell, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 22-1584 (MN)

    Employer was entitled to summary judgment where employee failed to rebut employer's legitimate, performance-based reasons for termination to show that those reasons were a pretext for disability discrimination.

  • Giffing v. Appoquinimink Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raeann Warner, Collins, Price & Warner, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Michael P. Stafford, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 23-457 (MN)

    Court dismissed state law claims against school district arising from teacher's alleged sexual assaults where plaintiff failed to rebut district's assertion that those state law claims predominated over the single federal law claim asserted against the teacher.

  • Teamster Local Union No. 355 v. Ensinger Penn Fibre, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance M. Geren, Ashley E. Macaysa, Paul D. Starr, O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue, New Castle, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Laurence V. Cronin Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Donald D. Gamburg, Immon Shafiei, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-1563-GBW

    Court upheld union grievance arbitration award where there was sufficient record evidence to support finding that employer's discovery of employee's on-the-job alcohol intoxication after terminating the employee for other reasons constituted after-acquired evidence.

  • In re FairPoint Ins. Coverage Appeals

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Kelly E. Rowe, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, William C. Purdue, Samuel I. Ferenc, Matthew L. Farley, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; Bruce E. Jameson, John G. Day, Prickett, Jones, & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Tammy Yuen, Juan Luis Garcia, Skarzynski Marick & Black, LLP, New York, NY; Robert J. Katzenstein, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ronald P. Schiller, Daniel J. Layden, Hangley Aronchik Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia, PA; Michael R. Goodstein, Bailey Cavalieri, Columbus, OH; Thomas J. Judge, Jason C. Reichlyn, Dykema Gossett, PLLC, Washington, D.C. for appellants.
    for defendant: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robin L. Cohen, Keith McKenna, Meredith Elkins, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP, New York, NY for appellees.

    Case Number: 478, 2022

    Superior court erred in finding fraudulent transfer claims filed by a bankruptcy litigation trust to be derivative and falling under the definition of a "securities" claim in a corporate insurance policy where such claims only benefitted creditors rather than the company and thus were direct in nature.

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  • NEC Corp. v. Peloton Interactive, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Consumer Products | Manufacturing | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Burke
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth L. Dorsney, Cortlan S. Hitch, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert L. Maier, Jennifer C. Tempesta, Michael E. Knierim, Nick Palmieri, Baker Botts L.L.P., New York, NY; Sarah J. Guske, Baker Botts L.L.P., San Francisco, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Karen Jacobs, Michael J. Flynn, Cameron P. Clark, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anupam Sharma, Robert T. Haslam, Covington & Burling LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Richard L. Rainey, Han Park, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.

    Case Number: 22-987-CJB

    Receipt of notice of infringement only a day prior to the filing of the complaint was insufficient to charge defendant with pre-suit knowledge of the asserted patents.

  • Acadia Pharm. Inc. v. Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-cv-1387-GBW

    Predecessor patents' disclaimer of scope did not restrict priority patent, which was broader in scope and whose language expressly contemplated the previously disavowed scope.

  • In Re Venoco, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Dehney, Andrew R. Remming, Matthew O. Talmo, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Warren W. Harris, Nancy McEvily Davis, Stephani A. Michel, Bracewell LLP, Houston, TX for appellant.
    for defendant: Rob Bonta, Christina Bull Arndt, Office of the California Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA; Edward K. Black, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; David M. Fournier, Kenneth A. Listwak, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven S. Rosenthal, Marc S. Cohen, J.D. Taliaferro, Alicia M. Clough, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, CA for appellee.

    Case Number: 17-10828 (JTD)

    Adversary proceeding asserting inverse condemnation claim failed where state government seized possession of facility necessary to prevent dangerous environmental contamination when owner ran out of funds to operate the facility.

  • FTE Networks, Inc. v. Szkaradek

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bryson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-785-WCB

    Internal affairs doctrine did not prohibit federal court from exercising inherent powers to appoint receiver for foreign corporation under that corporation's home state's laws.

  • Ryanair DAC v. Booking Holdings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Aerospace | E-Commerce | Transportation
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bryson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-1191-WCB

    Court denied motion for leave to amend counterclaims due to defendant's lack of diligence in seeking leave upon immediately learning of the facts supporting the amendment, which occurred before the close of discovery.