The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Do defendants and the court have the right to ask who is funding a particular patent litigation? Chief Judge Connolly in Delaware says they do, and in In re Nimitz, the Federal Circuit denied a request to stop the judge’s inquiry. The district court then issued a memorandum outlining its concerns.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Delaware's judiciary announced this week that a former Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP attorney who also previously worked for the state's Department of Justice has been appointed to serve as a magistrate in the Chancery Court.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 9, 2023

The Department of Justice and the Attorney General of Delaware have announced indictments totaling 35 counts against four people in connection with a series of crimes including carjackings, a kidnapping, a rape, and theft that occurred as part of a crime spree in April.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

New cases in Chancery Court last week ranged from cannabis control in California to fraud claims in Rwanda, while decisions covered everything from yoga to attorneys blacklisted from concert halls. Oddly enough for Chancery Court regulars, the Twitter disputes happened elsewhere.

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Law 360

AUGUST 20, 2024

A nearly record-breaking attorney fee got the nod in Delaware last week, along with Chancery Court settlements involving an international private jet service and a chain of trampoline parks.

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Law 360

JULY 29, 2024

Litigation linked to billionaire Elon Musk sparked several filings in Delaware's Court of Chancery last week, including a call for sanctions and hand-wringing about a proposed multibillion-dollar attorney fee. Other court activity centered on Paramount's proposed $4.5

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Law 360

JUNE 24, 2024

Amendments to Delaware's General Corporation Law topped the news out of the Court of Chancery again last week, as the hotly contested measure sailed through the state's legislature.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Biden claims Giuliani acquired Biden’s computer data illegally from John Paul Mac Issac, an owner of a Delaware computer repair shop. Mac Issac allegedly reached out to Giuliani and mailed Giuliani and Attorney Robert J. Hunter Biden has been busy in the courts as of late.

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Law 360

AUGUST 14, 2023

Shareholders who filed dueling Delaware Chancery Court suits over Madison Square Garden Entertainment's 2021 merger with MSG Networks won court approval Monday for $133.5 million worth of settlements to resolve the two disputes, with attorneys for the plaintiffs securing more than $36 million in fees and expenses.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 5, 2021

An attorney for Camping World Holdings Inc. directors told a Delaware vice chancellor Tuesday that stockholder claims for derivative damages tied to $530 million in alleged insider trading can't pass newly clarified court requirements to show the futility of demands for company-led litigation.

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Law 360

AUGUST 6, 2024

has agreed to resolve derivative claims in multiple stockholder suits in California federal court and Delaware's Court of Chancery by implementing corporate governance reforms and paying up to $2.15 million to plaintiffs' attorneys, the company has announced. Pop culture lifestyle brand Funko Inc.

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The Crime Report

MAY 2, 2022

Half the state supreme courts in the country don’t have a single justice identifying as a person of color and, while awareness of the lack of diversity is slowly leading to change, only 17 percent of state supreme court justices are Black, Latino, Asian American or Native American, reports Pew Stateline.

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Law 360

APRIL 12, 2024

The proposed Delaware General Corporation Law amendment in response to the Court of Chancery's recent opinion in West Palm Beach Firefighters' Pension Fund v.

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Law 360

JUNE 17, 2024

Pointing to recent Tesla stockholder votes to reincorporate in Texas and approve a mammoth Elon Musk pay package voided in Delaware, an attorney for Tesla has asked the Court of Chancery to reconsider holding a July 8 hearing on a proposed multibillion fee for class attorneys who won the Musk salary put-down.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Fox Rothschild LLP has added an attorney to its Delaware office who spent more than a decade at commercial litigation boutique Abrams & Bayliss LLP to bolster its ability to handle cases in the Chancery and other courts.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The new charges join the two previous charges filed against him in a federal court in Delaware. US Attorney General appointed Special Prosecutor David Weiss to conduct and oversee the investigation into Biden in August, which led to the indictment issued on Thursday. He is also charged with one count of violating 26 U.S.C.

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Law 360

JULY 15, 2024

Chancery Court news was full of fees and settlements last week, with three multimillion-dollar deals getting a court OK, and a day-long discussion over a potentially multibillion-dollar fee award for attorneys who got Tesla CEO Elon Musk's astronomical pay package thrown out.

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Law 360

MAY 26, 2023

Attorneys for former CBS Corp. the attorneys told the Delaware Chancery Court in a stipulation filed Friday. stockholders are seeking more than $45 million in fees for their work on a $167.5

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LegalReader

JUNE 8, 2022

A civil lawsuit is started with a complaint that needs to be drafted in the proper format, filed in the local court system, and served to the defendant.

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Law 360

JULY 11, 2022

Former Attorney General William Barr has been subpoenaed in Dominion Voting Systems' massive defamation suit alleging Fox News Network published unfounded election fraud claims, according to a docket entry in the Delaware state court case.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Grant & Eisenhofer PA attorneys are representing a pension fund investor in dating app company Bumble Inc. in a Delaware Chancery Court suit accusing company officers and controlling shareholder Blackstone Inc. of manipulating a September 2021 secondary public offering to unfairly benefit Blackstone affiliates.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Delaware court system is recognized throughout the legal profession as a leading forum for the litigation of business and commercial disputes. State Court Expansion. As the company’s name suggests, PacerPro developed its PDF2Go service for the federal courts’ PACER electronic filing system. Automatic Distribution.

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Law 360

JUNE 22, 2023

The Delaware Court of Chancery's recent decision in a Block shareholder's suit over the purchase of Tidal serves as a reminder that an independent and disinterested board will not have liability unless it did not act in good faith — even when the court strongly criticizes flawed processes and the business decision, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

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Law 360

MARCH 16, 2023

stockholder who sued in Delaware's Chancery Court to delay a stockholder vote on a $1 billion note issuance says his attorneys should get a $850,000 fee award because the lawsuit prompted better disclosures about the company's $4.4 A Unity Software Inc. billion merger with ironSource Ltd.

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Law 360

JUNE 30, 2023

A consulting firm founded by a former BDO USA LLP partner that lost a defamation lawsuit by default due to "egregious acts of spoliation" urged Delaware Superior Court Friday to reject BDO's request for $5.23 million in attorney fees and expenses, calling the proposed amount "a death sentence."

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Law 360

MAY 19, 2023

Attorneys representing stockholders who have struck a $48.5 million deal to end one of two suits in Delaware Chancery Court over Madison Square Garden Entertainment's 2021 merger with MSG Networks plan to seek up to roughly $14.6 million for their work on the case.

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Law 360

JUNE 26, 2023

Delaware Court of Chancery last week gave the nod to a range of settlements, fee awards and case consolidations, as attorneys from companies including Carvana and Facebook pushed back on shareholder suits.

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Law 360

JUNE 29, 2023

stockholder settlement, a class attorney defended as historic on Thursday a potential $120 million deal to end a Delaware Chancery Court suit over a company share conversion and reverse stock split. Acknowledging investor losses and "meme" stock passions driving objections to a proposed AMC Entertainment Inc.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Over the past year, the Federal Circuit has suspended one of its own judges, Delaware's chief federal judge has told the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate attorneys practicing in his court, and the Federal Circuit vacated a huge infringement verdict.

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Law 360

MARCH 13, 2023

The Delaware Chancery Court's recent decision in the McDonald's case appears to have expanded the potential for Caremark liability beyond the parameters that many legal analysts had understood to apply, finding that maintaining workplace safety is a mission-critical risk for companies but also reinforcing the high bar for that liability, say attorneys (..)

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Law 360

MARCH 6, 2024

billion squeeze-out by BDT Capital Partners LLC heated up Wednesday in Delaware's Court of Chancery as more than a dozen firms on teams led by Scott + Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, Friedlander & Gorris PA and Prickett Jones & Elliot PA are battling to lead a consolidated class suit. The competition among former Weber Inc.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 17, 2021

I will turn myself in tomorrow,” according to court filings. At a time when Philadelphia and other big cities are seeing a surge in homicides and fatal shootings , Delaware County’s lone city is experiencing the opposite. Prosecutors in Delaware County are reluctant to attribute those trends to a single factor.

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Law 360

MARCH 26, 2025

The Delaware Supreme Court's January decision in In re: Oracle and the General Assembly's passage of amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law this week, when taken together, help make the controlling-stockholder analysis clearer and more predictable for companies with large stockholders, say attorneys at Baker Botts.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Delaware Chancery Court's recent ruling that a McDonald's officer had oversight obligations on par with directors has wide-reaching implications for Delaware corporate law, including precedent for the court to hear sexual harassment claims, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 28, 2025

Some settle quickly after a case is filed, while others do not reach their denouement until after a trip up to the Federal Circuit or even the Supreme Court. The overwhelming majority of patent cases settle at some point in their lifespan. As usual, there is some great commentary on the decision over at the IP/DE blog , which I recommend.)

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Law 360

AUGUST 20, 2024

Arguing that stockholder rights to opt out of class-wide monetary settlements should no longer be "dependent on the accident of geography," attorneys for an AMC Entertainment Inc. Supreme Court Tuesday to review opt-out denials in a deal that ended a Delaware Court of Chancery suit last year. stockholder asked the U.S.

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