EON Corp. IP Holdings, LLC v. Sensus USA Inc., 2010 WL 346218(E.D.Tex. Jan 21, 2010) (NO. 6:09-CV-116) Judge: John Love Holding: Motion to Compel Testimony/Strike Infringement Contentions DENIED without prejudice; Motion for Protective Order DENIED; Infringement contentions ordered supplemented. Thi ...

There has been a lot of discussion of the massive data set that Pete Warden has been collecting from Facebook and the initial visualization of American groupings of people, based on their friends and other profile information. He's going to be releasing this data for researchers tomorrow - all gear ...

Along with her ability to walk came the necessity to fence her in. Not in the "chicken coop" way of fencing, but in a "keep the baby safe" way. How did that work out for us? Not so well at first. We have the hang of it now, but here's a photo montage from Nov. of '09 of Cecelia defeating an obstacle ...

In einer mit Spannung erwarteten Entscheidung hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht über die mit dem Koch-Steinbrück-Papier eingeführten Subventionskürzungen entschieden. Obwohl nur eine Regelung des Personenbeförderungsrechts zur Beurteilung anstand, hat der Beschluss Folgen für viele noch anhängige Ver ...

The First Two Delaware Decisions. In the past two months, I have reported on decisions by two Delaware bankruptcy judges in the In re Washington Mutual, Inc. case and in In re Premier International Holdings, Inc. (aka, the Six Flags case), taking opposing views on whether Federal Rule of Bankruptcy ...

A few weeks ago, a client who will be opening a factory in China within a couple of months told me how much he has been learning about China by following people on Twitter and following their news links. He then asked me who if I had a list of "China people" he should be following. I said abou ...

Alternative Fees cannot simply be a different route to the same end.  If AFAs merely become a surrogate for what would have been charged under the hourly model, nothing has changed and we have learned nothing.  The wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf.  In the absence of hard befo ...

I’ve been getting a lot of questions from disabled taxpayers about whether any special tax breaks exist for them in 2009. The answer is yes – and no. As I stated in a prior post, there was some economic relief for disabled Americans in 2009 in the form of the Economic Recovery Payment ( ...

By John Christoffersen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn’t rule out negligence. The powerful explosion blew apa ...

After fifty 'leven recent examples of trials being upended by jurors improperly using their cell phones, computers, Twitter or other communications technologies during jury service, a committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States has had enough. The Blog of the Legal Times' Marcia Coyle ...