All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Legal Issues

SanDisk continues to be a survivor on the legal front, notching up a few more small wins in the last few weeks. The important legal events on the horizon are still the two I have written about before: the upcoming patent trial in Texas, and the ITC decision that is now delayed until June. But these...

The market does not seem to realize it yet, but XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) is now all but assured to lose its big copyright case against the music industry. The nail in the coffin: a decision last week under which the district court judge ruled against XM on what was its central, indeed its only, plausible...

Drug litigation between innovator and generic firms is a fact of life.  The FTC has increased its antitrust challenges to the settlement of these cases, and Congress seeks to ban certain types of these settlements.

Apple is no stranger to disputes over the use of trademarked words. Unlike its fight with the Beatles, however, this time Apple has very little ammunition for its cause.

- There is an up surge in the relentless pursuit under Qui Tam.- The SEC is stepping up its investigations against many companies.- Moving to Zero Tolerance.

- More and more entities are looking to recover their costs.- Rhode Island has opened up the flood gates.- Time in and of itself may no longer be a bar to economic recovery.

Litigation will continue despite laws protecting paint manufacturers from public nuisance lawsuits.

Last month, the district court in Nevada held a hearing in which the court worked to decide how to interpret IGT’s several patents on both wheel-based casino games and player-tracking technology. As others have reported, the hearing on the merits went poorly for Bally. What others have missed, however,...

GPS Navigation systems are big business today, showing up in high-end cars and also selling briskly in various stand-alone portable implementations. To date, the market has evolved without substantial patent litigation. But no longer, thanks to a newly filed suit between SiRF Technology and Global ...

SanDisk and STMicro have underway a mess of litigation, spread over a variety of courts and jurisdictions. Two cases are coming to a head, however: the ITC should rule roughly in April on SanDisk’s allegations that STMicro infringes several SanDisk patents, and a jury should rule on cross-cutting patent...