Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright's second patent trial is underway in Waco. Monday afternoon, jurors heard from two of the country's premier trial lawyers about the backstories of their sparring clients, VLSI and Intel. The takeaway? Intel either knowingly made a billion products that infringe on VLSI's patents or Intel engineers were too caught up in their own innovations to know of their existence.
Jury selection is currently underway in VLSI v. Intel, which will easily be one of the hottest and closely-watched trials this year. While we wait for a panel to be selected, The Texas Lawbook asked a number of IP experts why the trial is so important.
For 76 hours this weekend, two corporate law firms representing two makers of rehydration drinks did battle in a trade dress, trademark dilution, tortious interference and antitrust lawsuit in Texas. The heated litigation with Alston & Bird representing Laboratorios Pisa and Baker Botts defending PepsiCo ended Sunday at 10:19 p.m. at the Fifth Circuit. Lawyers on both sides anticipate the fight to continue later this week.
In a one-page order issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright dismissed Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix, Ferrari and Daimler AG from a massive patent infringement suit over the safety technology used in Formula One racing.
A Delaware court this week handed a trial defense win to Energy Transfer in a dispute that stemmed from the 2015 mega-merger between ET companies Regency Energy Partners and Energy Transfer Partners, clearing the defendants of $1.6 billion in possible damages.
If you find yourself with an upcoming jury trial date and are wracked with anxiety over trying a case during a pandemic, you're in luck. Three prominent trial lawyers recently shared their experiences and lessons learned so you're not in the dark.
The litigation dockets of nearly one-third of Texas businesses increased in 2020 because of Covid-19 37% of corporate legal departments in the state believe that the social justice movement of the past year has made them more vulnerable to employment litigation, according to Norton Rose Fulbright's 16th annual litigation trends survey.
Texas federal courts are defrosting from a late year, Covid-spike-induced freeze in jury trials, with two federal judges resuming jury trials next week. They were among a group of four Texas federal judges who recently shared their wisdom of trying cases in the Covid era.
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