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Foreign executives feel antitrust crackdown
The government's intensified focus on international cartel prosecutions has led to an unprecedented number of jail sentences, a steadily climbing number of guilty pleas and record prison sentences against foreign executives. Antitrust lawyers representing foreign companies and executives said the trends will most likely continue, bringing a number of challenges for defendants in these cases.Novel Trademark Case Name Settles With Last-Minute Drama
A federal judge punctuated a last-minute settlement in an unusual trademark case by asking the lawyers to rewrite the agreement on the fly and apologize to the jury pool for wasting their morning. It was the latest dramatic turn in a case that had been set for trial Tuesday, featuring two leading IP lawyers: Michael Jacobs for software giant Autodesk and Claude Stern for Dassault Systemes SolidWorks. The case raised the unique issue of whether a software company could trademark a widely used name for a type of computer file.AmLaw 100: Lessons of Am Law 100: Is golden age over
$77 Million Arbitration Award Upheld for Hedge Fund Limited Partners
A brother and sister who used their respective positions as founder of a hedge fund and stock broker to boost the brother's personal accounts, to the detriment of his limited partners, have been ordered by a New York state judge to pay nearly $77 million to the partners. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Herman Cahn upheld an arbitration panel's award and its finding that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by allocating more profitable securities trades to the brother's account.Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. v. Pitofsky
�Standard� Arbitration Clause Is Not Affected by Second Similar AgreementMCA Records Wins Barbie Battle
Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls, has lost a trademark battle against MCA Records, which produced the hit 1997 song "Barbie Girl." Rejecting Mattel's argument that the song tarnished the doll's good name, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the song neither infringed nor diluted the Barbie trademark. The case clarifies First Amendment applications of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act.Wachtell, Cravath and A&O Lead on Mammoth Novartis Deal for Alcon
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Allen & Overy advised Swiss drugmaker Novartis on its $28 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Alcon, the world's largest eye-care company, from Nestle. Cravath, Swaine & Moore advised Nestle, which owned all of Alcon from 1977 through 2002. Nestle will have multiplied the value of its investment in the eye-care company by about 100 times with Monday's sale of the 52 percent stake, according to Bloomberg.Trending Stories
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