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  • In re: Start Man Furniture LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Joyce, Joyce, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Rene S. Roupinian, Jack A. Raisner, Gail C. Lin, Raisner Roupinian LLP, New York, NY for appellants and cross-appellees.
    for defendant: Bradford J. Sandler, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, Wilmington, DE for cross-appellant and appellee.
    Case Number: 20-10553 (CTG)

    Court reversed in part Bankruptcy Court's decision holding that debtor employers were not required to provide notice under the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act prior to laying off workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Jazz Pharm. V. Avadel CNS Pharm., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-06
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Jeremy A. Tigan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP; F. Dominic Cerrito, Eric C. Stops, Evangeline Shih, Andrew S. Chalson, Gabriel P. Brier, Frank C. Calvosa, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English, LLP; Kenneth G. Schuler, Marc N. Zubick, Alex Grabowski, Sarah W. Wang, Herman Yue, Alan Devlin, Andrew T. Jones, Audra Sawyer, Franco Benyamin, Sarah Propst, Yi Ning, Latham & Watkins LLP; Daralyn J. Durie, Kira A. Davis, Katherine E. McNutt, Rebecca E. Weires, Durie Tangri LLP for defendant.
    Case Number: 21-691-GBW

    Court accepted plain and ordinary meaning of disputed patent terms where extrinsic evidence showed that the term constituted a term of art showing that the claimed invention had a release profile different from immediate release or other prior art.

  • Int'l Bus. Machs. Corp. v. Zynga Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-06
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Moore, Bindu A. Palapura, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; John M. Desmarais, Karim Z. Onssayef, Lindsey E. Miller, Edward Geist, Raymond N. Habbaz, William Vietb, Benjamin Rodd, Amy I. Wann, Jonas R. McDavit, Tamir Packin, Desmarais LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alyssa Caridis, Jack O'Neal, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Clement S. Robert, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA; Evan D. Brewer, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Menlo Park, CA; Richard F. Martinelli, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 22-590-GBW

    Patent infringement claim dismissed where computer systems patent claimed an abstract idea that did not provide an inventive concept.

  • Bd. of Regents, Univ. of Texas Sys. v. Boston Scientific Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-29
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Education | Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stamatios Stamoulis, Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael W. Shore, Alfonso G. Chan, Chijioke E. Offor, Shore Chan DePumpo LLP, Dallas, TX; Brian D. Melton, John P. Lahad, Corey M. Lipschutz, Susman Godfrey LLP, Houston, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Chad Drown, Timothy E. Grimsrud, Katherine S., Razavi, Lauren J.F. Barta, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Minneapolis, MN; David J.F. Gross, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, East Palo Alto, CA; Christopher J. Burrell, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Washington, D.C.; Melissa A. Anyetei, James R. Ferguson, Michael J. Word, Ma yer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL for defendant.
    Case Number: 18-392-GBW

    The court issued a decision granting official definitions to the term "fiber" in a claim construction request.

  • Bearbox LLC v. Lancium LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-11-22
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew C. Mayo, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin T. Horton, John R. Labbe, Raymond R. Ricordati III, Chelsea M. Murray, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Chad S.C. Stover, Mark C. Nelson, Darrick J. Hooker, Adam M. Kaufmann, Dana Amato Sarros, David M. Lisch, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 21-534-GBW

    The court issued a ruling defining the claim terms of a patent consistent with the arguments made by defendant LLC.

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  • Upsher-Smith Lab. LLC. v. Zydus Pharm. (USA) Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-08
    Practice Area: Patent Licensing and Transactions
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English LLP, Wilmington, DE; Daniel V. Ward, Emma Notis-McConarty, Ropes & Gray, LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John C. Phillips, Jr., Megan C. Haney, Phillips, McLaughlin & Hall, Wilmington, DE; Michael J. Gaertner, James T. Peterka, Timothy F. Peterson, W. Patrick Conlon, Locke Lord LLP, Chicago, IL for defendants.
    Case Number: 21-1132-GBW

    The court granted in part and denied in part defendant's motion to dismiss.

  • Rider v. PPG Indus., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-01
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. O'Neill, Elliott Greenleaf, P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jared Thomas Green, Seitz, Van Ogtrop & Green, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lindsay Neinast, Littler Mendelson, PC, Washington, D.C. for defendants.
    Case Number: 21-1819-GBW

    Breach of contract and promissory estoppel claims seeking retiree benefits were not preempted by ERISA where employee had allegedly negotiated for reinstatement of benefits as if there was no break in service upon resuming employment following termination, thereby creating an independent legal duty for employer.

  • Affinity Empowering v. Eurofins Sci., Inc. Party

    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John V. Gorman, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Wilmington, DE; Raechel Kummer, Clara Kollm, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Washington D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jeffrey L. Moyer, Travis S. Hunter, Nicole K. Pedi, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE; Edmund M. Amorosi, Jennifer A. Mahar, Smith Pachter McWhorther PLC, Tysons Corner, VA for defendants.
    Case Number: 21-1843-GBW

    Court granted defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

  • Zoppas Indus. de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. v. Backer EHP Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Practice Area: Intellectual Property
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia L. Enerio, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Daniel J. Herling, Brad M. Scheller, Geri L. Haight, Adrian Kwan, Samuel D. Sazer, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Philip A. Rovner, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Thomas E. Williams, Kevin C. May, Daniel M. Terhune, Eric Y. Choi, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP for defendant.
    Case Number: 18-1693-GBW

    Plaintiff could not defeat summary judgment on its trade secret misappropriation claim based on new allegations that defendant obtained trade secrets from a third party, after the court denied discovery related to the third party and plaintiff never sought to amend its complaint to add allegations relating to the third party.

  • Mentone Solutions, LLC. v. Cobham Tech., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 22-cv-131-GBW

    The court denied a motion for default judgment on the basis that plaintiffs did not adequately plead patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. §271(a). The court noted that plaintiff's complaint was at best described as "sparse" and did not establish that defendant made, used, or sold the accused instrumentalities in the United States