After Uniloc won a $388 million verdict, the trial judge tossed it, concluding that the jury didn't have a basis for finding Microsoft infringed Uniloc's patent. The appellate panel said the infringement verdict was supported by the evidence--but the damages award--based on the time-honored "25 percent rule"-- wasn't.

For the second time in five months, Panasonic's lawyers at Dewey & LeBoeuf persuaded a federal judge in San Francisco to dismiss Samsung's antitrust claims against Panasonic over a patent licensing deal involving secure digital memory cards.