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San Diego city officials may have shown bad judgment when they altered a pension plan to deal with the city's fiscal crisis, but their actions didn't rise to the level of a crime, according to a federal judge.
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Idea-submission claims are on the rise in Hollywood, where ideas often are presented informally, leaving a writer without proof when a suspiciously similar project appears. Thanks to Grosso v. Miramax, it's easier to claim idea theft without copyrighted scripts. But the 9th Circuit's ruling conflicts with decisions in the 2nd, 4th and 6th circuits, says Gail Title, who represented Miramax in a brief to the Supreme Court. "There really is a need for guidance in this area," she says.Even the Litigation Department of the Year doesn't win 'em all.
Motorola Mobility, the $12.5 billion apple in Google's eye, can now claim the dubious honor of being sued by the mammoth patent aggregator Intellectual Ventures.
L.A. Firms Lift Associate Salaries
O'Melveny & Myers and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker are lifting associate salaries to match Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, raising first-year base pay to $135,000. Other California-based firms reacted with interest to the news Tuesday. "It's the law of supply and demand: If the market goes up, we go up," said Joseph Coyne Jr., a member of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's executive committee, who indicated his firm would likely match.EchoStar filed the suit back in 2005, in response to TiVo's celebrated infringement suit involving patents on digital recording devices. It was stayed for a PTO re-examination. Now it's back on track, albeit with far fewer claims.
The deal averts a new trial in the trade secrets case that produced a $112 million verdict against A10.
The commission finds that Samsung Electronics infringed two of Kodak?s patents related to processing and storing digital images. Matt Powers of Weil Gotshal represented Samsung.
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