A California judge overturned a June 27 verdict awarding $4.7 billion to plaintiffs in a class action antitrust suit filed against the National Football League. U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez’s ruling granted the NFL’s posttrial motion for judgment as a matter of law on Thursday. Federal antitrust laws could have tripled the…

A U.K. High Court judge has dismissed an application from South Korea to set aside an arbitration award exceeding $100 million against the country. The award was made in June 2023 in favour of Elliott Associates, a Florida-based investment manager. The award related to a dispute over an $8 billion…

Mark Selwyn and Liv Herriot of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have made appearances on behalf of Apple in a patent-infringement case filed by a California inventor. Selwyn, a Wilmer partner who is co-chair of its intellectual property litigation team, and Herriot, who specializes in intellectual property litigation, made…

The large-scale breathing machine recall that led to over a billion dollars worth of legal settlements was premised on significantly flawed third-party research, the machines’ manufacturer alleged in a recently filed lawsuit. In a complaint, Philips alleged that PSN Labs LLC, which Philips had hired to study the sound abatement foam…

Apple has urged a federal court to dismiss the Department of Justice’s iPhone-related antitrust lawsuit, assailing as unreasonable the government’s claim that the tech giant violated U.S. law by not giving third parties access to the company’s platform. “This lawsuit is based on the false premise that iPhone’s success has…

Who Got The Work Google and YouTube have retained attorneys Asim Bhansali, Kate Lazarus and Lizzie Dinh of Kwun Bhansali Lazarus to fight a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, which asserts a single patent related to streaming video to mobile devices, was filed May 28 in California Northern District…