All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Legal Issues

James Heskett's review of the works of Bennis and Tighy on judgment as the essential task of leadership is flawed by an attempt to interject experience as a competing attriburte. If "experience" is to be considered at all, it must be defined.  I suggest 3 definitions: "disciplinary experience"...

The Acacia business model is a repulsive one on public policy grounds; and in the coming months patent law is likely to catch up with the firm and further constrain Acacia's growth potential.

The block placed on the Phonak/ReSound merger in the hearing aids market by the German competition authorities although significant should not be seen as the rule but as an exceptional event. The nature of the market and the existence of a vociferous complainant competitor that is headquartered...

Merrill Lynch downgraded its rating on QCOM today, citing yesterday's loss at the ITC as a "major negative" and lamenting that now QCOM is unlikely to be able to settle the broader NOK fight anytime soon.  That analysis is hard to fathom.  Yesterday's news was a setback to be sure, but for...

The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) overseeing QCOM's GSM case against NOK is scheduled to issue his tentative ruling today.  Here, I run through my current thinking on the matter.

The court in Nevada has issued its Markman order, determining the meaning of the patent at issue in Bally's (BYI) patent lawsuit against IGT.  The result is a mixed one, with BYI prevailing on most claims but receiving an awkward interpretation of claim 19.

The ITC this week declined to puruse a complaint filed by NOK, explaining that an investigation would be inappropriate given the pending QCOM/NOK arbitration.

Silicon Graphics emerged from bankruptcy and quickly launched a patent lawsuit against ATI.  Now, that case has come to a head, with both parties filing motions that could plausibly and decisively end the case prior to the start of an actual jury trial.

The Delaware patent infringement lawsuit brought by IGT against BYI looks like it is shifting away from Delaware and into a Patent Office process known as re-examination.   The result is a high stakes moment where BYI might significantly lessen IGT's threat, but it might fail and thereby strengthen...

Winding through Washington’s legislative maze is the “Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007.” (HR 3010 and S 1782). If enacted into law, this Act would revolutionize arbitration as we know it in the United States and that prospect poses an imminent threat to banking institutions, employers, any business...