After eight months of patient, indirect and difficult contact with the Dutch collector, the villagers of Yangchun in south-east China's Fujian province failed to get back the mummy Buddha statue of Patriarch Zhanggong which was stolen in ...
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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 ...
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A Californian court ruled that Nike acted within the law when signing Rory McIlroy on a $20 million a year equipment contract in 2012. The golfer's former apparel and eye-wear sponsor Oakley had sued the golfer and Nike in December ...
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Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea has filed an out-of-court settlement in a Proposition 65 complaint with law firm The Chanler Group. The Chanler Group is a professional Prop 65 litigant. Its complaint with Ikea covers changing pads. ...
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German energy group RWE expects a settlement with Gazprom during first half 2013 on its long-term gas imports from the Russian producer, the company said Monday. A spokeswoman for the company confirmed that a settlement was expected in ...
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Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has settled a class action lawsuit accusing the cooperative of conspiring to control the raw milk market in the southeastern US. DFA will pay US$140m to the plaintiffs. An additional, refundable $9.3m per ...
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The Trustees of the Iron Workers Local Union No. 5 and Iron Workers Employers Association, Employees Pension Trust and CBO Glass are in settlement discussions in a case in which the Trustees had alleged that the company failed to pay the ...
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A federal judge in California has rejected a request by Samsung that would have doubled the length and increased the complexity of a highly anticipated trial in which the company will lock horns with Apple over smartphone and tablet PC ...
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Patent disputes that have emerged since September 2010 and thus uncertain legal positions regarding certain patents are still hampering the German furniture industry's use of laser edgebanding technology developed in recent years. European ...
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Wolfgang Dehen, CEO of Osram said he was glad to enter into a new area of partnership-based competition with Samsung. Osram and Samsung have jointly issued a press release announcing an agreement to settle of all of their worldwide ...
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Osram and Samsung settle all LED lawsuits, including license agreements for patent portfolios Osram AG (a subsidiary of Siemens AG of Munich, Germany and the world's second largest lighting manufacturer) and South Korea's Samsung ...
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According to OSRAM AG,the company and Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd.have reached an agreement to settle all patent suits between them worldwide.The patent suits have been filed in various countries amongst others Germany,South Korea and in ...
Osram settles with Samsung,expands China LED operations 18 Aug 2012 Osram is building a new LED packaging facility in Wuxi,China and jointly announces with Samsung settlement of their worldwide patent dispute. Osram AG and Samsung ...
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