• Marqunez v. Dole Food Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Mass Torts
    Industry: Agriculture | Chemicals and Materials | Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew C. Dalton, Dalton & Associates P.A., Wilmington, DE; Scott M. Hendler, Hendler Flores Law, Austin, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jennifer C. Wasson, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ryan D. Stottmann, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam V. Orlacchio, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kelly E. Farnan, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE; John C. Phillips, Jr., Phillips Goldman & Spence P.A., Wilmington, DE; Andrea E. Neuman, Mary Beth Maloney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; William E. Thomson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Michael L. Brem, Schirrmeister Diaz-Arrastia Brem LLP, Houston, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: 12-695-RGA

    Court declined to grant summary judgment for defendants where the parties' joint expert persuasively opined that plaintiffs' complaint qualified as a protective action under relevant Ecuadoran law, making plaintiffs' claims not time-barred under the Delaware borrowing statute.

  • In re: AMC Investors, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Electronics | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark D. Collins, Marcos A. Ramos, Cory Kandestin, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Mitchell A. Karlan, Paul J. Kremer, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP for appellants.
    for defendant: Curtis Miller, Daniel B. Butz, Jonathan M. Weyland, Morris Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; James A. Bombulie, Dustin B. Hillsley, Akerman, LLP, Miami, FL; Brian P. Miller, King & Spalding LLP, Miami, FL for appellees.

    Case Number: 22-179-RGA

    Statute of limitations barred adversary complaints filed on behalf of debtors by their creditor where creditor's prior lawsuit against debtors based on the same factual predicate put debtors on notice of the claims raised in the adversary proceeding.

  • REGENXBIO Inc. v. Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-22
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Biotechnology | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan E. Morrison, Casey M. Kraning, Fish & Richardson P.C., Wilmington, DE; Brian D. Coggio, Jeremy T. Saks, Fish & Richardson P.C., New York, NY; Kurt L. Glitzenstein, J. Peter Fasse, Fish & Richardson P.C., Boston, MA, John R. Lane, Fish & Richardson P.C., Houston, TX; Amy M. Dudash, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Julie S. Goldemberg, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Janice H. Logan, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Derek J. Fahnestock, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; William B. Raich, Michael J. Flibbert, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington, DC; Andrew M. Berdon, Robert B. Wilson, James E. Baker, Anastasia M. Fernands, Laura Fairneny, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, New York, NY; Molly Moore, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Washington, DC; Charles E. Lipsey, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Reston, VA; Steven G. Madison, James Bieber, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: 20-1226-RGA

    Merely combining natural gene sequences was insufficient to create a patentable invention.

  • Maschio Gaspardo S.p.A. v. Precision Planting LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-12-11
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Agriculture | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neil A. Benchell, Timothy Devlin, Peter Akawie Mazur, Devlin Law Firm LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Jeremy A. Tigan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott R. Brown, Matthew B. Walters, Todd A. Gangel, Hovey Williams LLP, Overland Park, KS for defendant.

    Case Number: 22-1394-RGA

    Court construed patent terms as having their plain and ordinary meaning where there was no language in the patent specifications supporting limitations on the claim scope.

  • Lewis v. Tyler Tech.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-04
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
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    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Racquel Lewis, Wilmington, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-296-RGA

    Court dismissed complaint where underlying alleged incident could not conceivably give rise to any cause of action.

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  • Carrum Tech., LLC v. Ford Motor Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-20
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; John M. Hughes, Andrew C. Baak, Taylor J. Kelson, Bartlit Beck LLP, Denver, CO; Rebecca T. Horwitz, Mark L. Levine, Bartlit Beck LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daryll Hawthorne-Bernardo, Christian J. Singewald, White & Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE; Frank C. Cimino, Jr., Megan S. Woodworth, Jonathan L. Falkler, Charles J. Monterio, Jr., Venable LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.

    Case Number: 18-1647-RGA

    Court granted summary judgment of non-infringement after accepting defendant's proposed claim construction and struck plaintiff's supplemental declaration raising a doctrine of equivalents theory as untimely where plaintiff never raised the theory in its complaint or during discovery.

  • Viatech Tech., Inc. v. Adobe, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Day, Andrew C. Mayo, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Denise M. De Mory, Michael N. Zachary, Jennifer L. Gilbert, Richard C. Lin, Bunsow De Morey, Redwood City, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kelly E. Farnan, Sara M. Metzler, Richards, Layton & Finger P.A., Wilmington, DE; James F. Valentine, Perkins Coie LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Christopher G. Hanewicz, Perkins Coie LLP, Madison, WI; Matthew J. Moffa, Thomas V. Matthew, Perkins Coie LLP, New York, NY for defendant.

    Case Number: 20-358-RGA

    Court declined to exclude plaintiff's expert's opinions in patent infringement suit, finding that the expert correctly used the stipulated construction of terms in the patent-in-suit in at least two theories of infringement.

  • Cilag GmbH Int'l v. Hospira Worldwide, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-08-14
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Beth Moskow-Schnoll, Brian S.S. Auerbach, Brittany M. Giusini, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alejandro H. Cruz, Nathaniel Lancaster, William F. Cavanaugh, Patterson Belkamp Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY; Mark A. Neubauer, Steven B. Weisburd, Carlton Fields, LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Arthur G. Connolly, III, Alan Richard Silverstein, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; David G. Hille, Katrina Fetsch, Kimberly A. Haviln, White & Case, LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-589-RGA-SRF

    The court granted defendants' motion to dismiss a third-party claim ruling that, for a third-party to recover for a breach of contract, it must appear that the parties to the contract intended to recognize the third-party as the primary party in interest and as privy to the contract.

  • Cooper v. Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Delaware, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raj Srivatsan, McGivney, Kluger, & Cook, P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Dawn C. Doherty, Brett Thomas Norton, Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-1370-RGA

    Court dismissed survival and wrongful death action filed in federal court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction where decedent had same citizenship as defendants, destroying complete diversity.

  • Mirtech, Inc. v. Agrofresh, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Agriculture | Biotechnology
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Glenn A. Brown, Real World Law, P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs/counter-defendants.
    for defendant: Chad S.C. Stover, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant/counter-plaintiff.

    Case Number: 20-1170-RGA

    Finding that the plaintiffs/counter defendants would suffer legal prejudice if the remaining counterclaims were dismissed without prejudice, the court dismissed the remaining counterclaims with prejudice.