In opening statements, Oracle's counsel Daniel Wall of Latham said that the companies were partners only in the non-binding "Silicon Valley way."

A company director who pledged all his stock to a merger can sue over allegedly false statements in the merger registration statement — even if he made the pledge long before the registration statement was drafted.

In an 8-1 decision involving a patent on a deep fryer, the high court upheld a $4.65 million infringement verdict for French home appliance company SEB. But it rejected the standard for induced infringement applied by the Federal Circuit to reach the same conclusion.

Ted Frank's purchase of a Grand Theft Auto video game eventually led him to quit his fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute and devote himself to objecting to class actions settlements that he believes are orchestrated mainly to enrich plaintiffs lawyers.

In The Fourteenth Court of AppealsOPINIONIn this breach-of-contract case, we construe an attorney's contingency-fee agreement with his corporate clients. The attorney sued his clients, allegi

PUBLISHBefore LUCERO, BALDOCK and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.This case primarily involves a dispute between SCO and Novell regarding the scope of intellectual property in certain UNIX and UnixWar