Law
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A group of more than two dozen Boston police officers are seeking class certification for the remedy stage of a case in which a Massachusetts federal judge ruled that a test for cops seeking a promotion violated anti-discrimination laws… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Cisco Systems Inc. escaped a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of infringing a network patent held by competing software company Egenera Inc. on Wednesday when a Massachusetts federal judge declared the patent invalid for failing to name all the inventors… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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ETC Global Holdings Inc. asked a California federal court on Tuesday for a quick win in a case brought by software maker InteliClear LLC, saying trade secret laws don’t protect InteliClear’s program, and even if they did, ETC didn’t steal the product’s features… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The federal government on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pass up the chance to weigh in on a dispute between Roche unit Ariosa Diagnostics and Illumina Inc. over what constitutes prior art for patents granted before the America Invents Act… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Third Circuit appeals panel on Tuesday rejected IKB International SA’s bid to revive a suit blaming Wilmington Trust Co. for a $168 million loss on residential mortgage-backed securities investments, saying the bank hadn’t shown the trustee violated its contractual obligations… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 