The firm buys patents and licenses them for royalties or sues to enforce them.
At present, when someone sues the government, ministers must account for their actions in open court.
When it doesn't, you wonder how long it will be before someone sues a studio for whiplash.
The router maker stops fuming, and sues a Chinese company over intellectual piracy.
Note that this is not a typical trademark lawsuit, where a trademark owner sues a competitor for copying its trademark too closely.
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The season ends and Kobe sues his mom for selling his memorabilia.
If former client Satyam sues them too, PwC will have to wait a little while longer to mothball their damage control strategies.
According to a 2002 Rand Institute study, the typical asbestos claimant sues 60 to 70 defendants, including both solvent and bankrupt companies.
Now suppose that in a completely new matter, plaintiff (X) sues Blitz.
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Merrill Lynch regularly sues departing financial consultants and often obtains court orders that prohibit any solicitation of their existing accounts for up to a year.
This one is the episode where Ericsson sues Samsung: again.
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So, when the US sues to stop the deal we see the share prices of the two companies involved in the deal fall.
The employee sues the employer for discrimination, produces evidence that X is not accurate, or that other employees guilty of X have not been terminated.
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But if your legal fees are to get divorced or because a family member sues you for slander, the legal fees are purely personal and non-deductible.
Billionaire Bruce Berkowitz has been buying up the shares as the insurer sues Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) over the billions it lost on Countrywide mortgages.
But IV soon morphed into a multipronged, first-of-its-kind firm: It buys and licenses patents, sues infringers, acts as a venture capitalist for inventors and does in-house scientific research.
That information is not made public until someone sues them.
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Company number one sues company number two for patent infringement.
Easier, that is, until the employee sues for discrimination, proves that his sales numbers were actually better than two of his co-workers, and that he was actually replaced by someone 10 years younger.
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That was sheer judicial activism, says John Vail with the Center for Constitutional Litigation, a Washington law firm that frequently sues on behalf of plaintiffs it feels have been denied access to the courts.
But it drew stiff opposition from disgruntled car owners as well as Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness, who frequently sues to break up settlements he regards as collusive or unfair.
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One common example: A plaintiff sues manufacturers of asbestos-containing brake pads without disclosing that he has already collected tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars from trusts representing bankrupt producers of construction products on the theory that he was exposed to asbestos on construction sites.
Concerning really big or controversial claims, the insurer will delay the claim as long as they can (make money on financing), then deny it (improve their loss ratio), then defend it if the claimant sues (in-house legal staff can spend a lot more than most consumers operating on their own).
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