A Delaware federal judge dismissed a fraudulent inducement claim in a dispute over social media account control, leaving a franchise buyer with only a breach of contract case against the sellers of its yogurt chain.
A federal judge in Delaware vacated a jury’s finding of willful infringement in Express Mobile’s patent lawsuit against GoDaddy, but upheld the $170 million damages award for the web-hosting company’s Website Builder product.
A federal judge in Delaware granted jurisdictional discovery in a patent infringement suit against two Taiwan-based semiconductor companies, allowing the plaintiff to test a stream-of-commerce theory of personal jurisdiction.
A federal judge in Delaware allowed a rival sales intelligence platform to proceed with claims that ZoomInfo monopolized the market and engaged in a smear campaign.
A Delaware federal judge dismissed a securities class action against industrial chemical maker Chemours, ruling that plaintiffs failed to plead material misrepresentations regarding the company's Free Cash Flow metrics.
A federal judge in Delaware concluded that Ricoh plausibly alleged its videoconferencing patents contain an inventive concept, denying Zoom's motion to dismiss.
A Delaware federal judge ruled that IV's targeted licensing campaign and string of lawsuits against banks and insurers gave Assurant enough of a legal threat to file a preemptive declaratory judgment action.
A Delaware federal judge allowed a securities fraud class action to proceed, holding that Humana executives plausibly misled investors about rising patient costs and quality ratings.
A Delaware federal court denied plaintiffs' motion to exclude a defense reproductive-medicine expert in consolidated litigation alleging that occupational exposure to the pesticide DBCP caused male infertility, while reserving relevance and Rule 403 challen...
A Delaware federal judge wiped out the last surviving claim of a reactive targeted advertising patent after finding it covered nothing more than the age-old practice of tailoring a pitch to a particular customer.
Judge Richard G. Andrews of the District of Delaware issued a memorandum opinion resolving claim construction disputes in Belden Inc.’s patent infringement lawsuit against CommScope LLC.
A Delaware federal judge has construed six disputed claim terms in two Belden patents covering electromagnetic interference shielding tape used in unshielded twisted pair cables, splitting the wins between Belden and CommScope in a ruling that will shape wh...
The District of Delaware granted summary judgment to Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., holding that a $10 million life insurance policy on Irene Sloat was void from inception because it lacked an insurable interest under Delaware law. The court also denied U.S...
A federal judge dismissed with prejudice all three discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a tenured professor who lost her administrative directorship after a graduate student's plagiarized dissertation went unreported.
A federal judge in Delaware granted Google summary judgment on patent-eligibility grounds, holding that the sole remaining claim in B.E. Technology's infringement suit is directed to an abstract idea and contains no inventive concept sufficient to save it u...