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Business

[11/25] Analysis: Geithner is already shaping the economy

Intellectual Property

[11/25] Finally, urine recycler passes astronauts' test

Insurance

[12/02] Business Insurance Names 25 as Women to Watch

Environment

[11/26] Why won't polar bears mate? They're both female

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Case Summaries

Intellectual Property

[12/01] Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp.
In a patent-infringement case involving the enforceability of patents for video-compression technology, determination that plaintiff had failed to disclose the patents to a standards-setting organization (SSO) of which it was a member, and declaration that the patents were therefore unenforceable against the world, is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded where: 1) plaintiff had a duty to disclose the patents prior to the adoption of new standards by the SSO, which it breached; and 2) plaintiff had therefore waived its right to enforce its patents; but 3) the enforceability waiver was limited in scope to a subset of compliant products.

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Insurance Law

[12/02] Love v. Dell Inc.
In a suit arising from the denial of health benefits under a plan subject to ERISA, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where two separate decisions by defendant-plan administrator to deny coverage as not medically necessary were supported by substantial evidence in the record, and were therefore not abuses of discretion.

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Environmental Law

[11/28] Albany Eng'g Corp. v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n
In a case involving the reimbursement by downstream licensees of upstream dam operators for "headwater benefits" conferred by those dams, petition for review of a FERC order allowing state regulation of the reimbursements is granted, and order reversed in part, where section 10(f) of the Federal Power Act preempts state law over compensation for headwater benefits, and FERC's interpretation to the contrary was unreasonable.

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Commercial Law

[12/03] Andrzejewski v. Fed. Aviation Admin.
In proceedings arising after the FAA revoked petitioner's commercial pilot's license via emergency order, pilot's petition for review of an NTSB order reversing an ALJ's decision in pilot's favor is granted and the matter remanded where the NTSB's failure to give the ALJ's implicit credibility determination the requisite level of deference was contrary to NTSB precedent and, therefore, arbitrary and capricious.

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