US-based Cree has filed patent infringement lawsuits with the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against Taiwan-based LED packaging houses Harvatek and Kingbright Electronics, according to the company. The infringed ...
The Shareholders Foundation announces that an investor, who currently holds shares of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp (NASDAQ:PSMI), filed a lawsuit in effort to halt the proposed takeover of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp by Murata Electronics ...
Tags: Takeover of Peregrine, Lawsuit, Electrical
The Turkish Steel Exporters' Association chairman Namk Ekinci has said that the US antidumping and countervailing duty decision on Turkish OCTG imports is without basis. The US International Trade Commission (ITC) decision confirmed the ...
Tags: Turkish Producers, OCTG Imports, Metallurgy
Three lawsuits filed by over 200 retired NHL players over concussion-related injuries have been consolidated and will be heard by a federal judge in Minnesota. A special panel assigned the cases to U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ...
Tags: Three lawsuits, NHL players, Sporting Goods
US-based natural spring water bottler Nirvana is suing Nestlé Waters North America for violating a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and resorting to anti-competitive practices. Nestle signed the agreement with Nirvana in 2012 after ...
The National Retail Federation (NRF) has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that left the cap on debit card swipe fees at 21 cents rather than reducing it to a lower level. A petition asking the Supreme Court to ...
Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle a patent infringement lawsuit involving insulin pumps. On July 28, Judge Ronald Lew in U.S. District Court for California’s Central District issued a joint stipulation, ...
Las Vegas-based ClarkWestern Building Systems (dba ClarkDietrich) filed a federal antitrust RICO complaint in federal court Wednesday against a suite of companies, claiming a trade group created “sham” regulations to squeeze ...
Tags: ClarkWestern, Mineral, Metallurgy
Skechers USA, Inc. said it filed a lawsuit against Fila U.S.A. Inc. for selling footwear that infringes on the popular Skechers GO Walk product line. The suit, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of ...
Tags: Skechers USA, Lawsuit, Sporting Goods
The raid of electronic capacitor companies in Japan this week is a further indication that antitrust enforcers may be pursuing a worldwide cartel involving the small, but ubiquitous product, antitrust attorneys said. “This has the ...
Tags: raid, Electrical, Electronics
CR Bard execs know they have a gorilla of a competitor in the proposed $43 billion Medtronic acquisition of Covidien, particularly in the vascular business. They aren’t predicting the effects of that business combination on Bard, ...
Tags: CR Bard Eyes, Health, Medicine
BOSTON – Today, the United States, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, settled a lawsuit against ConAgra Grocery Products Company, LLC (“ConAgra”), which will pay $5.7 million to reimburse EPA for cleanup ...
Tags: Conagra ConAgra, Lawsuit, Office Supplies
A federal court filing this week indicated that arrangements are being made to sell a significant portion of the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore, Maryland. Court documents stated the sale was being prepared for an unnamed ...
Tags: Former Sparrows Point Mill, federal court, Metallurgy, Mineral
Using plain packaging for cigarettes has resulted in 15% drop in smoking rate in Australia, according to a survey. The survey, which was carried on people aged 14 years and above in December 2013, found that plain packaging had ...
Tags: plain packaging, cigarettes, Packaging
General Electric Co. will pay $7.95 million to settle part of a federal lawsuit filed in 2009 by several Saratoga County municipal agencies that shut down or moved their water supplies when the company began dredging PCBs from the Hudson ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, GE