In light of this, Sylvie Gallage-Alwis, Partner at the Paris office of specialist disputes law firm Signature Litigation, explains that the call at European level for anxiety claims to be recognised and have a general liability regime should be of great concern for companies doing business in the EU. As highlighted in previous articles on […]
However, Endo said that the settlement includes no admission of wrongdoing by Endo or its subsidiaries. The settlement will remove Endo from an ongoing trial in lawsuits by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Suffolk and Nassau counties, though claims against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and AbbVie Inc remain unresolved. The deal, which excludes Dublin-based […]
Northwestern University had accused Mitsubishi of infringing patents related to collaborative robots that can safely interact with humans in a shared workspace. Northwestern University says its professors Michael Peshkin and Edward Colgate invented these collaborative robots, known as “cobots” for short. According to a court document filed on Tuesday, the university also settled related claims […]
Google was fined amid increasing international pressure on online platforms to share more of the revenue they generate from using media outlets’ news. Head of Google France, Sebastien Missoffe said: “We disagree with a number of legal elements, and believe that the fine is disproportionate to our efforts to reach an agreement and comply with […]
Speaking with established trial attorney James Urbanic, we explore the statutes that protect whistleblowers in California and the wider United States. He shares his experience in protecting employees from retaliation for complaining of harassment or discrimination in the workplace and offers his insight on how jurors’ attitudes towards whistleblowing have shifted.
The German car manufacturer previously asked the US Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling that permitted two counties to seek diesel-related financial penalties that could end up costing the company billions of dollars. However, this request is still pending. Back in June of this year, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that the […]
Theranos, founded by Holmes in 2003, claimed it would revolutionise the medical testing space with the introduction of a new blood diagnostic technology that was capable of performing several tests on a small dose of blood. The medical start-up had reached a valuation of $10 billion. However, it was later found that the company’s claims […]
In a court filing on August 26, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, an interim lead class counsel for the software developers who are the plaintiffs, announced that a $30 million fee award squared with the attorney compensation in similar class action settlements. Freed Kanner London & Millen, Saveri & Saveri, and Sperling & Slater are the […]
Texas-based Data Engine Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Research, first sued Mountain View California-based Google in 2014, claiming that its Google Sheets spreadsheet programme infringed patents related to using notebook-style tabs to arrange and display information in three-dimensional electronic spreadsheets. However, under the patents’ definition, Google Sheet does not count as a “three-dimensional spreadsheet”, […]
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