Tom Biery/Trans Pix Truckload carrier Western Express has reached an out-of-court settlement of its $75 million rebate-fraud lawsuit filed last year against Pilot Flying J, Pilot's attorney confirmed. The settlement amount was not ...
Tags: Western Express, out-of-court settlement, Pilot Flying J
A US federal appeals court upheld a multibillion-dollar settlement between BP and the coastal residents and businesses hit by the company's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. The British energy giant reached a $7.8 billion ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Nearly two thirds (59 per cent) of US consumers who are currently energy drink or shot users say they worry about the safety of energy drinks and shots, according to new findings from market research organisation Mintel. However, despite ...
Tags: Energy Drink, Safety, Food Safety
Stryker will settle four New Jersey lawsuits related to its ABG II and Rejuvenate hip implants for an undisclosed sum. The company expects to pay significant sums of cash to resolve the lawsuits and the hundreds of other similar cases that ...
The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against InterDigital in a complaint that alleged Huawei, Nokia and ZTE had infringed the company’s patents. On Thursday, the ITC upheld a previous ruling in June that found ...
Tags: Huawei, ZTE, Nokia, Patent Dispute
Stryker will settle four New Jersey lawsuits related to its ABG II and Rejuvenate hip implants for an undisclosed sum. The company expects to pay significant sums of cash to resolve the lawsuits and the hundreds of other similar cases that ...
Leading international luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo has won an important victory in the battle against counterfeiting. The Southern District Court of New York, where the Florentine company, last January, had filed its civil lawsuit ...
This week’s edition of IT hiccups, snarls, and general foul-ups begins with the surprising announcement last Thursday by U.S. District Judge James V. Selna who, according to Bloomberg News, issued an order stopping lawsuits into ...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association welcomed the passage of the Innovation Act of 2013 by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Innovation Act would reform patent troll litigation abuse by leveling the playing field for plaintiffs ...
A biomedical engineer is developing a clinical-grade open-source 12-lead ECG. The device includes support for Android devices and is designed to meet all relevant medical device manufacturing standards, like ISO 60601-1. According to early ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A jury on Thursday ordered Samsung Electronics to pay Apple $290 million for copying features of the iPhone and iPad. That was in addition to $640 million the South Korea-based Samsung already owed Apple from a ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Verdict, $290 million
Speaking on the on the House Judiciary Committee’s vote approving H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act, the National Retail Federation Senior Vice President David French said, “The Judiciary Committee has taken Congress’ first ...
Tags: Patent Reform, Apparel
Medical device giant Johnson & Johnson has reportedly negotiated a settlement that will bring an end to over 7,500 lawsuits from patients who received the company’s all-metal hip implants. For many of these patients, complications ...
Tags: J&J, Hip Implant, $4 Billion
For China Mobile executives, it seems like just yesterday that the mobile carrier was the only game in town. The company, the world’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, dominated the industry for most of the past decade. With ...
Tags: China Mobile, 4G Services
Embattled Taiwanese LED packager Everlight and Japanese manufacturer Nichia both published press releases on Nov. 6, 2013 regarding their latest YAG patent dispute in China. The two companies ongoing patent wars has rekindled LED industry ...
Tags: LED Manufacturers, Lighting