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  • Apple Inc. won’t have to pay up for infringing one of Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL’s wireless communications technology patents because the patent’s original owner, Nokia Corp., didn’t disclose it in a timely fashion to European telecom regulators, a California federal court has ruled… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Louis Vuitton Malletier SA on Tuesday won a bid to keep its trademark battle against a poop-shaped toy purse called Pooey Puitton solely in France, after a U.S. judge shut down a parallel case filed in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • StarKist Co., Bumble Bee Foods LLC and Nestle Purina Petcare Co. got swept up in three separate proposed consumer class actions filed on Monday in California federal courts alleging that the companies falsely billed their canned tuna products as “dolphin safe”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday highlighted an unusual split with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division in a California federal court filing that slammed the DOJ’s antitrust watchdogs for butting into the FTC’s case against Qualcomm over the chipmaker’s patent licensing practices… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The California Coastal Commission on Wednesday handed down a record $15.6 million fine against a developer for an alleged “bait and switch” related to a hotel project in Santa Monica that saw two lower-cost motels knocked down to clear the way for a high-priced hotel… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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