All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Legal Issues

The Third Circuit has reinstated significant parts of BRCM's antitrust case against QCOM.  In this post, I sketch some implications of that decision.

The Mexican Congress has to decide this week, before the 8th of september, whether they will approve the Tax and Electoral Reforms presented by the President.  Mexico's lack of reforms is making the country lose competitiveness. The President has to present budgets for next year, with or without...

Indeed, Qualcomm Inc may have the chance to retry part of a patent infringement lawsuit the chip maker lost to rival Broadcom Corp. However, one of the problems with such approach is that whatever Qualcomm may say against Broadcom, Nokia can use against Qualcomm. Qualcomm situation is very delicate....

Last week's decision in the Align/Ormco appeal is hard to parse, and indeed on first blush might look like a win for Ormco.  A more careful analysis, however, reveals that Align's charaterization is closer to right: Ormco "won" a few claims, but those wins are far from strong, and they were paired...

A few days ago, the judge in Santa Ana invited QCOM to petition for a new trial on the question of whether QCOM's infringement of the relevant BRCM patents was willful.  QCOM might as a result get a fresh shot on willfulness, but make no mistake: the original ruling is still important as a signal...

Katrina insurance coverage issues have acted as a possible spark for Congress to step up to the plate. Should insurance policies have what some perceive as illusory coverage?

New Rulings hinder certain lead paint Claims. The seminal lead paint ruling in Rhode Island may be an aberration.

The European Commission came out yesterday and announced tentative charges against Rambus over that firm's involvement with the standard-setting organization JEDEC.  The company downplayed the new allegations as if they are mere repeats of charges already addressed by the FTC.  But the EC...

This analysis provides an inside view on new aspects of the German tax law that might be of interest even for taxpayers not resident in Germany. Although the corporate tax system has been changed from the tax credit method to the half-income system in 2000/2001, many corporations have tax credits resulting...

The article "Where have all the Securities Class Action Gone" concludes that class action filings are in a decline. In fact, filing indices show that these peeked in 2001 when IPO allocations were the hue and cry. Since then cases involving mutual funds, analyst cases and normal  ones,  have...