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  • Mellaconic IP LLC v. Timeclock Plus, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-05-23
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew S. Curfman, Howard Wemow, Sand, Sebolt & Wernow Co., LPA, Canton, OH for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jimmy C. Chong, Chong Law Firm, PA, Wilmington, DE
    Case Number: 22-244-CFC

    Court possessed inherent authority to demand production of documents that might evidence potential fraud committed upon the court even though plaintiff had moved to voluntarily dismiss the case.

  • Thompson v. City of Wilmington

    Publication Date: 2023-05-23
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald J. Thompson, III, Wilmington, Delaware, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Caitlyn E. Quinn, Jocelyn N. Pugh, City of Wilmington Law Department for defendant.
    Case Number: 22-44-CFC

    Racial discrimination and retaliation claims were sufficiently pled where plaintiff was the only qualified candidate and was passed over for an unqualified external candidate and the denial of promotion was in close temporal proximity to plaintiff's HR complaint.

  • Backertop Licensing LLP v. Canary Connect, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-16
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Consumer Products | Electronics
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy C. Chong, Chong Law Firm, PA, Wilmington, DE; Ronald W. Bums, Fresh IP PLC, Frisco, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Alan Richard Silverstein, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark K. Suri, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago, IL; Jeremy Douglas Anderson, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Ricardo J. Bonilla, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Dallas, TX for defendants.
    Case Number: 22-572-CFC

    Court had jurisdiction to issue memorandum despite plaintiff's motion to voluntarily dismiss, where the purpose of the memorandum was to obtain information for the court concerning whether plaintiff had been fraudulently established to shield real parties-in-interest from liability for bringing potentially frivolous litigation.

  • In re: Windhaven Top Ins. Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-04-25
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Consulting | Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory L. Arbogast, Keith M. Lusby, Gebhardt & Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark E. Felger, Barry M. Klayman, Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O'Connor, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: 20-10524 (JTD)

    Bankruptcy court's jurisdiction to determine whether disputed funds were part of a debtor's estate did not "impair" the enforcement of state insurance laws and therefore did not trigger reverse preemption.

  • Steuben Foods, Inc. v. Shibuya Hoppman Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-28
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Devlin, Peter A. Mazur, Devlin Law Firm LLC, Wilmington, DE; W. Cook Alciati, Chad E. Ziegler, Gardella Grace, P.A., Washington, DC; Olivia E. Marbutt, Kent & Risley LLC, Alpharetta, GA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John W. Shaw, Karen E. Keller, Nathan R. Hoeschen, Shaw Keller LLP, Wilmington, DE; J.C. Rozendaal, Byron L. Pickard, Michael E. Joffre, Anna G. Phillips, William H. Milliken, Robert E. Niemeier, Deirdre M. Wells, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC, Washington, DC; Jean Paul Y. Nagashima, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Washington, DC for defendants.
    Case Number: D70174

    Court granted judgment as a matter of law as to noninfringement of patents where a plain reading of the patent limitations meant that the accused products were not substantially similar to the described invention and therefore could not infringe under the doctrine of equivalents.

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  • Moore v. Moore

    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome Moore, New Castle, DE, plaintiff pro se.
    for defendant: Lisa Moore, Bear, DE, defendant pro se.
    Case Number: 22-747-CFC

    Claim against co-parent alleging their fraudulent receipt of Social Security disability benefits meant for their child did not confer federal question jurisdiction.

  • Vanda Pharm., Inc. v. Teva Pharm. USA, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen Jacobs, Derek J. Fahnestock, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nicholas Groombridge, Eric Alan Stone, Josephine Young, Daniel J. Klein, Jennifer Rea Deneault, Michael F. Milea, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Karen E. Keller, Nathan R. Hoeschen, Shaw Keller LLP, Wilmington, DE; J.C. Rozendaal, Deirdre M. Wells, William H. Milliken, Sasha Rao, Michael Bruns, Byron L. Pickard, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC, Washington, DC; Thomas J. Francella, Jr., Kaan Ekiner, Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Barry P. Golob, W. Blake Coblentz, Aaron S. Lukas, Kerry B. McTigue, Cozen O’Connor, Washington, DC; Keri L. Schaubert, Cozen O’Connor, New York, NY; Derek Gretkowski, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA for defendants.
    Case Number: 18-651-CFC

    Defendants' ANDA did not result in liability for infringement of patent claims that the court found invalid as obvious based on the combined teachings of the prior art.

  • McRedmond v. HCR Healthcare, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Christopher Gallagher, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Geoffrey Graham Grivner, Kody Macgyver Sparks, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Wilmington, DE; Joshua T. Calo, David L. Gordon, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Princeton, NJ for defendants.
    Case Number: 22-692-CFC

    Execution of agreement upon subsequent admission to nursing home facility superseded arbitration agreements signed on a prior admission where the second agreement conflicted with the terms of the prior arbitration agreement.

  • Shaheed v. City of Wilmington

    Publication Date: 2022-11-29
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Automotive | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Shaw, Shaw Keller LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert E. Johnson, Institute for Justice, Shaker Heights, OH; William Aronin, Institute for Justice, Arlington, VA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Laura Najemy, Rosamaria Tassone-DiNardo, City of Wilmington Law Department, Wilmington, DE; David J. Ferry, Jr., Rick S. Miller, Ferry Joseph, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Neil Raymond Lapinski, Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph W. Benson, Andrew G. Ahern, III, Joseph W. Benson, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Neil Raymond Lapinski, Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 21-1333-CFC

    Court found no due process violation from towing and impoundment of vehicles where car owners were provided with adequate notice to be heard following towing, as pre-towing hearings or release of vehicles on demand would be impractical and would nullify the city's interest in towing repeat violators.

  • Arthrex, Inc v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA

    Publication Date: 2022-11-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry R. Wood, Jr., Adam V. Orlacchio, Anna Elizabeth Currier, James G. Gorman, III, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Justin F. Lavella, Alexander H. Berman, Blank Rome LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kelly Elizabeth Rowe, Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert J. Katzenstein, Julie M. O'Dell, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Aaron S. Weiss, Daniel G. Enriquez, Steven J. Brodie, Carlton Fields, P.A., Miami, FL for defendant.
    Case Number: 22-00465-CFC

    Court transferred insurance dispute case to Florida where part of the underlying events occurred in Florida and plaintiff was headquartered there, giving Florida the greater interest in adjudicating the dispute.