http://technology.law360.com/ The Newswire for Legal Professionals Copyright 2010 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://technology.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://technology.law360.com/ http://technology.law360.com/articles/148284 Intel Corp. has asked a court to grant it summary judgment in a dispute with American Guarantee and Liability Insurance Co. over the costs of defending antitrust suits by rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and consumers. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148284 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148472 Dish Network Corp. and former parent EchoStar Communications Corp. has agreed to pay $5.8 million in attorneys' fees that TiVo Inc. has incurred bringing contempt allegations against the satellite television provider in an ongoing patent infringement suit over digital video recording technology. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148472 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148412 A former Intel Corp. executive pled guilty Monday to securities fraud in the massive insider trading case centered on hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, which regulators claim involves more than $25 million in ill-gotten gains. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148412 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148203 Bankrupt telecommunications provider FairPoint Communications Inc. has filed a plan of reorganization that calls for slashing its $2.7 billion debt burden by about two-thirds to around $1 billion. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148203 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148235 A magistrate judge has overturned a jury verdict finding Inline Connection Corp.'s patents for Internet access over telephone lines invalid, but left in place the finding that EarthLink Inc. did not infringe the patents. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148235 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148200 A Texas company has launched a suit against more than a dozen semiconductor makers, suppliers and distributors, including Hynix Semiconductor Inc., claiming the companies infringe four patents covering memory chip technology. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148200 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148176 Canadian licensing company Wi-LAN Inc., which has accused a slew of companies of infringing its wireless technology patents, has agreed to settle a dispute over patent ownership interests brought by telecommunications company Telus Corp. that threatened to undermine Wi-LAN's cases. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148176 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148238 The plaintiffs in a class action accusing Lucent Technologies Inc. of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by improperly reducing medical benefits for its retirees have reached a settlement with the company, according to court papers. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148238 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148267 Patent-holding company Parallel Networks LLC has dropped its infringement suit against Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Kayak Software Corp. over a patent related to the way Web site servers handle data requests from lower speed Internet users. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148267 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148182 Nokia Corp. is facing a securities fraud class action alleging rosy predictions its officers made in 2008 were known to be false and resulted in a dramatic loss of value for holders of the company's American Depositary Shares. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148182 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148201 A federal appeals court has reversed sanctions against attorneys for ResQNet.com Inc. stemming from the alleged bad-faith inclusion of certain patents in its infringement suit over software technology, while remanding the damages calculation against defendant Lansa Inc. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148201 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148265 Electronic Arts Inc. has agreed to pay bankrupt retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. $5.2 million to settle a dispute over a resale agreement between the companies. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148265 http://technology.law360.com/articles/147898 Broadcom Corp. has asked a judge to toss an antitrust lawsuit brought by Emulex Corp. alleging that Broadcom made misleading and disparaging statements about Emulex during a tender offer in an effort to monopolize the market for an Ethernet controller. http://technology.law360.com/articles/147898 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148139 A federal judge has approved a settlement agreement between SanDisk Corp. and Phison Electronics Corp. as defendants continue to drop away from SanDisk's suit, which accused dozens of companies of infringing its patents for flash memory technology. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148139 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148162 Best Buy Co. Inc. has asked a federal judge to approve a $902,410 settlement that resolves claims that the consumer electronics giant did not pay retail workers in New York for time they spent going through a security check at the end of the workday. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148162 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148179 Sharp Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have signed a settlement agreement to end more than two years of ongoing patent infringement disputes before the U.S. International Trade Commission and in federal courts over liquid crystal display panels and modules for television and computer screens. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148179 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148149 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has revived a putative class action against Dell Inc. over allegedly defective laptops, reversing a lower court order and ruling that the conflict resolution clause of Dell's online purchasers' contract violates California law. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148149 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148111 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to re-examine a C2 Communications Technologies patent for Voice Over Internet Protocol technology at the request of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to challenging what it considers junk patents. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148111 http://technology.law360.com/articles/148066 It's only a matter of time before Washington puts a price on carbon, the single, most significant current issue for utility companies, energy manufacturers and clean energy entrepreneurs, according to attorney Gerard Waldron, who will return next week to Covington & Burling LLP after a two-year stint as a legal adviser to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. http://technology.law360.com/articles/148066 http://technology.law360.com/articles/147909 With its chances of success seeming increasingly slim, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has said it will not pursue a stock options backdating suit against four Broadcom Corp. executives. http://technology.law360.com/articles/147909