• Data Engine Techs. LLC v. Google LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-12-25
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan and Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wimington, DE; Amir Alavi,, Demetrios Anaipakos, Alisa A. Lipski, Timothy Shelby, Scott W. Clark, Monica Uddin, Nathan Campbell, and Louis Liao, Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing, P.C., Houston, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Frederick L. Cottrell and Jason J. Rawnsley, Richards, Layton & Finger, PA, Wilmington, DE; Gregory P. Stone, Eric P. Tuttle, Zachary M. Briers, Hannah Dubina, Ashley D. Kaplan and Peter A. Detre, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: D68816

    Court ruled that a preamble term was limiting because it was essential to understand the remaining terms in the claim, and accepted defendant's proposed construction where the intrinsic evidence required construing the term as requiring a mathematical relationship.

  • Ocimum Biosolutions (India) Ltd. v. AstraZeneca UK Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-25
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin S. Mann, Michael L. Vild and Christopher P. Simon, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE; C. Ed-ward Polk, Jr., Polk Law PLLC, Ashburn, VA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Michael P. Kelly, Daniel M. Silver, Benjamin A. Smyth and Steven P. Wood, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dane H. Butswinkas of Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, D.C. for defendant.

    Case Number: D68819

    Certain red flags signaled the existence of information that would have led a prudent person to discover po-tential causes of action for breach of contract or trade secret violations.

  • In re Oracle Corp. Derivative Litig.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-18
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris and Christopher P. Quinn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Randal J. Baron, David A. Knotts and Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Down LLP, San Diego, CA and Nashville, TN; Brian J. Robbins, Stephen J. Oddo and Gregory Del Gaizo, Robbins LLP, San Diego, CA for lead plaintiff.
    for defendant: Elena C. Norman, Richard J. Thomas, Benjamin M. Potts, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter A. Wald, Blair Connelly and Rachel J. Rodriguez, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA and New York, NY for defendants Ellison and Catz. Kenneth J. Nachbar, John P. DiTomo, Thomas P. Will and Corinne R. Moini, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sara B. Brody, Jaime A. Bartlett and Matthew J. Dolan, Sidley Austin LLP, San Francisco, CA and Palo Alto, CA for defendants Hurd Estate, Henley, Conrades, James, Panetta, Boskin, Berg, Garcia-Molina, Seligman, Chizen and Bingham. A. Thompson Bayliss and E. Wade Houston, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; John W. Spiegel, George M. Garvey and John M. Gildersleeve, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant Goldberg. Andrew S. Dupre, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert P. Feldman and Christopher D. Kercher, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sulli-van LLP, Redwood Shores, CA and New York, NY for defendant Nelson. Thomas A. Beck, Blake Rohrbacher, Susan M. Han-nigan, Matthew D. Perri and Daniel E. Kaprow, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for nominal defendant Ora-cle Corp.

    Case Number: D68809

    Where a special litigation committee concluded that a litigation asset should be turned over to the lead plaintiff to pursue a derivative action on behalf of the corporation, plaintiff was entitled to all relevant documents considered by the committee.

  • M2M Solutions, LLC v. Sierra Wireless America, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-11
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stamatios Stamoulis and Richard C. Weinblatt, Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs. Wendy Verland and Jeffrey D. Ahdoot, Blackbird Technologies, Boston, MA for plaintiff Blackbird Tech LLC. Thomas C. Grimm and Jeremy A. Tigan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE
    for defendant: Ronald F. Lopez and Jennifer Hayes, Nixon Peabody LLP, San Francisco, CA and Los Angeles, CA for Sierra Wireless defend-ants. Jack B. Blumenfeld and Rodger D. Smith II, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; David Loewenstein and Clyde A. Shuman, Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, Wilmington, DE for defendant Telit Wireless Solutions.

    Case Number: D68804

    In this patent claim construction matter, the court concluded that a preamble could be limiting, and a prior statement was not sufficiently specific to qualify as a prosecution history disclaimer.

  • Cirba Inc. v. VMware, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-11
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth L. Dorsney, Morris James, Wilmington, DE; Courtland L. Reichman, Shawna Ballard, Jennifer P. Estremera, Michael G. Flanigan, Joachim B. Steinberg, Kate Falkenstien, Ariel C. Green, Sarah O. Jorgensen, Christine E. Lehman, Khue V. Ho-ant, Jaime Cardenas-Navia and Wesley L. White, Reichman Jorgensen LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, Atlanta GA, Washington, DC and New York, NY; Gary J. Toman, Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, Atlanta, GA; Peter J. Ayers, Law Office of Peter J. Ayers, PLLC , Austin, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Anne Shea Gaza, Robert M. Vrana and Samantha G. Wilson of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ar-turo J. González, Michael A. Jacobs, Richard S.J. Hung, Bita Rahebi and Scott F. Llewellyn, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA and Denver, CO for defendant.

    Case Number: D68802

    The court construed disputed patent terms based on intrinsic evidence.

  • TIBCO Software, Inc. v. nThrive Revenue Sys., LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-12-04
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Corporate Entities
    Industry: Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josiah R. Wolcott, Connolly Gallagher, LLP, Newark, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Chad S.C. Stover, Barnes & Thornburg, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68796

    A factual dispute existed regarding whether a party was an agent or otherwise had authority to terminate an agreement. Motion for summary judgment denied.

  • Winshall v. Viacom Int'l Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-20
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68781

    The indemnification provision in the parties' merger agreement did not apply to attorney fees in first-party claims, so the court denied plaintiff's request for an award of attorney fees and expenses.

  • In re Verizon Ins. Coverage Appeals

    Publication Date: 2019-11-13
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robin L. Cohen, Keith McKenna and Michelle R. Migdon, McKool Smith P.C., Washington, DC for plaintiffs Verizon Commu-nications Inc, Verizon Fin. Serv. and GTE Corp.
    for defendant: Kurt M Heyman and Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman, Enerio, Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, James W. Thomas, Jr., William C. Perdue and Robert Reeves Anderson, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC and Den-ver, CO for defendants Illinois Nat’l Ins. Co. and Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co. Bruce W. McCullough of Bodell Bové, LLC, Wilming-ton, DE; Ronald P. Schiller, Daniel J. Layden and Jason A. Levine, Hangley, Aronchick, Segal, Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia, PA for defendant Zurich American Ins. Co. John C. Phillips, Jr and David A. Bilson, Phillips, Goldman, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph A. Bailey III, Clyde & Co. US LLP, Washington, DC for defendant U.S. Specialty Ins. Co. Jennifer C. Wasson and Carla M. Jones of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE

    Case Number: D68772

    An insured was not entitled to recover defense costs from the insurers, because the litigation in question did not include any "securities claims" as defined by the policies.

  • In re Solutions Liquidation LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-11-06
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Consulting | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Sontchi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew P. Ward and Ericka F. Johnson, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, Wilmington, DE; David J. Stone, Brager Eagel & Squire, P.C., New York, NY for liquidation trust.
    for defendant: Marc J. Phillips and William R. Firth, III, CKR Law, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants Stienes, Lavenberg, Taylor and Garver. Daniel C. Kerrick and Garvan F. McDaniel, Hogan & McDaniel, Wilmington, DE for defendant Barker.

    Case Number: D68762

    An exculpation clause in a limited liability company agreement did not bar a claim for breach of the duty of care based on gross negligence.

  • Perrong v. Liberty Power Corp., L.L.C.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-16
    Practice Area: Telecommunications
    Industry: Energy | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chad J. Toms, Whiteford Taylor Preston LLC, Wilmington, DE; Aytan Y. Bellin, Bellin & Assoc. LLC, White Plains, NY for plain-tiff.
    for defendant: Alexandra Rogin, Charles A. Zdebski and Jeffrey P. Brundage, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC for defendant. David C. Weiss, Chad A. Readler, Eric R. Womack, Anjali Motgi and Laura D. Hatcher, U.S. Department of Justice.

    Case Number: D68739

    Plaintiff stated a claim for relief under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and defendant's challenge to plaintiff's standing to seek injunctive relief was premature.