An East Texas federal jury concluded Friday that Barnes & Noble didn't infringe a patent owned by Alexsam Inc., a patent holding company that sued B&N and six other major retailers over their use of gift card technology.

Federal pre-emption, once an eye-glazing and rarely discussed topic, is now front and center on the Supreme Court's business docket — including two cases argued in the just-completed November argument cycle.

Ambac and its fellow bond insurer MBIA went hard at banks, accusing them of fraudulently obtaining insurance policies on subprime-backed securities. But so far, the litigation doesn't seem to have been a smashing success for the insurers.

TiVo and its lawyers at Irell & Manella and McKool Smith have secured yet another settlement in their patent litigation campaign against the digital television industry. The latest TiVo foe to cut a deal is Google's Motorola Mobility unit, which faced a jury trial next week in East Texas.

John Beisner, the influential head of O'Melveny's class action practice, is headed to Skadden. O'Melveny has appointed Richard Goetz to replace him as leader of the practice group.

An East Texas jury called the latest round for Applied Medical in a long-running battle with Covidien and its subsidiaries over patents for surgical devices called laparoscopic trocars.

Did the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting Broadcom's onetime CFO really try to influence the ex-GC's testimony by threatening him with perjury charges?