Posts published in “Legal”

Falfurrias Capital Partners, LP (represented by lawyers at MCGUIREWOODS LLP), and Sluss+Padgett Inc. (represented by lawyers at HENDRICK, PHILLIPS, SALZMAN & SIEGEL, P.C.) elected to remove the class action lawsuit filed by Bellyard Partners, LLC, from Georgia state court to the U.S. District Court in Atlanta last week. This week, Falfurrias and Sluss advised the…

In a reply brief filed in court this week, EssilorLuxottica says the eyewear purchasers suing it for alleged antitrust violations never explain how it supposedly “eliminated competition” or “established price floors” that harmed consumers. Being big isn’t illegal, and lawful vertical integration and good business aren’t antitrust violations. EssilorLuxottica says the plaintiffs’ complaint is long…

William Cornelius at CORNELIUS STRATEGIC ADR located in Tyler, Tex., advised the Court last week he conducted a mediation session with Ilumi Solutions, Inc., dba Meshtek Labs, Inc., and Gemstone Lights Canada Ltd., on Wed., Nov. 6. “No settlement was reached,” he says, “but some progress was made, and it appeared that further discussions might…

Litter appliance manufacturers Automated Pet Care Products, LLC, dba Whisker and PurLife Brands, Inc., dba Smarty Pear executed a Confidential Settlement Agreement on Feb. 24, 2024, according a court filing. But, Automated tells the Court in a status report filed last week, Smarty hasn’t yet performed its obligations. The status report asks the court to extend the…

Represented by the law firm of McLANE MIDDLETON PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION in Manchester, N.H., Laser Components USA, Inc., filed its concise nine-page answer earlier this week denying Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.’s patent infringement allegations and asserting eight affirmative defenses. As previously shared with UV Reporter subscribers, a team of lawyers at RADULESCU LLP representing Sensor Electronic…

The Honorable Susan M. Brnovich entered a 53-page order ruling on dueling motions for summary judgment filed by Lighting Defense Group LLC and Shanghai SANSI Electronic Engineering Company Limited in on-going LED technology patent infringement litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. Judge Brnovich’s decision isn’t a silver bullet for either…

In a redacted notice filed earlier this week, Global Plasma Solutions, Inc., notified the Honorable Stephanos Bibas (who oversees related litigation involving GPS in Delaware) that Bellyard Partners, LLC, filed a fresh class action complaint against Falfurrias Capital Partners, LP, and Sluss + Padgett Inc. Bellyard says it agreed to 168 GPS-FC-3-BAS units from Sluss+Padgett…

Lighting Defense Group LLC turned to Dr. Thomas P. McGahee for expert damage model testimony in on-going LED technology patent infringement litigation against Shanghai SANSI Electronic Engineering Company Limited. Calling Dr. McGahee’s expert testimony “as “untethered fromthe facts of this case, methodologically flawed, and unreliable,” SANSI asked the Honorable Susan M. Brnovich to exclude his royalty…

“EssilorLuxottica has exploited its monopoly power and entered into anticompetitive agreements to foreclose competition and mark up prices for premium-branded frames by at least 1,000% and for lenses by up to 24,000%,” direct and indirect purchasers of premium eyewear and lenses tells the Honorable Mary Kay Vyskocil in their 86-page objection to the eyewear giant’s…