The Anapol Schwartz personal injury law firm has announced that a $2.5bn proposed settlement was submitted for the DePuy Orthopaedics Articular surface replacement (ASR) hip implant litigation in a Toledo, Ohio federal court. The ...
Tags: Metal-on-Metal Hip, Medicine
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 ...
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Seoul-based LIG Group is planning to divest all shares of its nonlife insurance division, as part of its strategy to gather the required funds to compensate investors for losses from a financial fraud scandal in 2011. Unveiling its ...
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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
Alvopetro Inc. ("Alvopetro" or the "Company") announces that it has closed a transaction with Petrominerales Ltd. ("Petrominerales") to sell its 25 percent interest in 10 exploration blocks located in the Reconcavo Basin and three marginal ...
Three prominent U.S. senators have in a federal court filing questioned the claim of the National Security Agency that its bulk collection of phone records is required for intelligence purposes. The brief argues that after extensive ...
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Google’s privacy policy and terms of service violate German data protection law, the Regional Court of Berlin ruled Tuesday. The clauses are too vaguely formulated and can restrict the rights of consumers, said the Federation of ...
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SAP has been slapped with a lawsuit by California’s state controller over a payroll software implementation that cost taxpayers vast sums, but has never worked correctly. The suit, filed Thursday in Sacramento County District ...
A jury has ordered Samsung to pay US$290 million to Apple for infringement of several of its patents in multiple Samsung smartphones and tablets. The verdict, reached on the third day of deliberation by the eight-person jury, is less ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Patent Battle
With the first faint rays piercing the economic gloom after five years there is anecdotal evidence that things are beginning to warm up for lighting design. The British Chambers of Commerce released an optimistic Quarterly Economic Survey ...
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
Diageo, a global premium drinks business, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced a new multiyear marketing partnership that will make Diageo the exclusive spirits partner of the league. Diageo brands Ciroc and Crown Royal ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is expanding its efforts to protect its users' online activities from prying eyes by encrypting all the communications and other information flowing into the Internet company's data centers around the world. ...
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A group of scientists and experts requested by Congress to assess the total damage caused by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 have said the government's current methods of putting a price tag on the most sweeping ...
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