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Plaintiffs’ claims that defendant’s ‘432 patent, relating to a method for centralized identification and authen­tication of users and their transactions to increase security in e-commerce, are invalid because they are directed to an abstract idea and thus are ineligible for ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Robert G. Doumar U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this shareholder derivative suit by a 33-percent owner of a private, close­ly held timber company, challenging a compensation package for a new Chief Executive Officer who is not related by blood or marriage to either of the two families ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a pharmaceutical company’s Lanham Act suit alleging defendant pharmaceuti­cal company cut into plaintiff’s profits by listing in industry databases a proposed generic equivalent to plaintiff’s Donna­tal drug for irritable bowel syndrome, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court ex­cludes testimony from ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

In Northrop Grumman’s suit, started in Virginia state court and demanding that DynCorp produce documentation for sub­contract labor charges and damages for breach of that contract to support count­er-narcotics operations in Afghanistan, the Alexandria U.S. District Court orders remand to ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this royalty dispute over the use of nu­clear technology, the Supreme Court of Vir­ginia reverses a judgment for plaintiff Are­va NP Inc. against Babcock & Wilcox and affiliated companies for breach of contract and violation of the Virginia Uniform ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Supreme Court of Virginia

A Roanoke U.S. District Court denies plaintiffs’ motion for judgment on the plead­ings in this declaratory judgment action filed by creditors who assert that the earlier judg­ment they won against debtor and a guaran­tor bars a later action filed by ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A Richmond U.S. District Court certifies a class in plaintiffs’ suit alleging defendant employers did not hire plaintiffs based, in part, on information contained in consumer reports furnished by Trans Union LLC, in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. ...

Tagged with: Consumer Reporting Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiffs who assert they were denied employment on allegedly inaccurate and incomplete criminal histories supplied by defendant CoreLogic National Background Data LLC (NBD), which provides custom­ers access to a database of criminal record information, can try their claim that defen­dant ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A businessman who, following bankruptcy of a struggling business venture, has sued his partners alleging various business tort claims, sees his claims for tortious inter­ference, fraud and business conspiracy dis­missed by the Norfolk U.S. District Court, on recommendations from the ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Douglas E. Miller Judge Rebecca Beach Smith U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this dispute between two companies that produce and sell sporting goods, in­cluding gear for the game of “FlingGolf” or “ThrowGolf,” the parties’ Nov. 2, 2014 “Term Sheet” discussing a possible license agree­ment involving a “Flingstick” was an “agree­ment to ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District