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Norton Rose Fulbright provides the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. In 2017, Norton Rose Fulbright joined forces with Chadbourne & Parke, with the combined global law firm expanding its capabilities in Texas and beyond.
Over the past year, Norton Rose Fulbright:
• Secured a victory for AMC Entertainment, persuading a Houston trial court to grant summary judgment on all antitrust and related claims asserted by another major theater operator. The competitor claimed that AMC conspired to thwart plaintiff’s development and film licensing efforts by allegedly boycotting films and issuing threats to film distributors and real estate developers. The plaintiff also sought a permanent injunction against AMC’s use of the longstanding film licensing practice known as “clearances,” which allows theaters to seek to license films with limited exclusivity as to a nearby competing theater.
• Advised Berry Petroleum following its emergence from LINN Energy’s bankruptcy in connection with Berry’s separation from LINN Energy and Berry’s subsequent multiple financing, acquisition and divesture transactions. The complex transactions included the sale of interests in Kansas and Oklahoma oil & gas properties, including the Hugoton natural gas field, the $261 million acquisition of LINN Energy’s majority interest in the South Belridge Hill asset in Kern County, California, and a $1.5 billion revolving credit facility.
• Represented Transocean in three inter partes review (IPR) proceedings seeking to enforce Transocean’s patents for a system that allows two drilling operations to take place simultaneously on one derrick. The firm’s strategy achieved a rare finding of non-obviousness based on secondary indicia of non-obviousness. Despite finding that the claimed technology combined features known in the art, the Patent and Trial Appeal Board concluded that evidence of commercial success and industry praise showed that Transocean’s invention “moved the industry” and merited patent protection.
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