All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Legal Issues

The decision on medical devices is good news for pharmaceuticals. If medicines get the same protection -- it could bode well -- for reasons beyond the obvious.

Those involved in the management decisions on contingent commissions are feeling its sting! What was once an accepted practice with brokers has now come under strict scrutiny. 

Last year, BRCM convinced the ITC to issue an exclusion order barring the importation of certain power-saving technologies that were then in common use.  QCOM responded by developing a "work-around" that supposedly could be imported because its underlying technology was sufficiently different from...

After weeks of delay, QCOM and NOK finally agreed today on the details of what will be covered in the Delaware litigation.  There were few surprises.  The CDMA arbitration is now officially history.  The patent "stand down" is in effect.  But the most important thing to recognize...

Tessera begins a big hearing this week at the ITC.  But the firm's more interesting legal fight is playing at the Patent Office, where several reexamination proceedings are underway, and questioning the validity of some of the firm's most important patents.

The RIM and Motorola lawsuit dueling implies that mobile cross-licensing is constrained by: 1)  Divergent technology, 2) Licensee not controlling distribution, 3) 3rd party carrier marketing.

Limelight and Akamai are ready to face off next week in front of a jury.  At issue?  Akamai's long-standing claim that Limelight's basic architecture violates one of Akamai's main patents.

Will a Third Party in a financial transaction be able to forever hide behind the Stoneridge ruling? Are investors no longer able to pursue fraud allegations against a third party in a financial transaction? 

WR. Grace's tactics in their bankruptcy set the benchmark for all to follow. The allowance of extensive discovery in an asbestos bankruptcy has generally favored the defense.

Recent news in both the BRCM and NOK fights confirm what many of us have been saying for a while now: these litigations are nowhere near over, and QCOM has a long road to travel before it will finally clear these issues and emerge with a (very) healthy forward-looking business.