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On Friday, 3Com Corporation announced that it had agreed to be acquired by affiliates of Bain Capital Partners, LLC, for approximately $2.2 billion in cash. This is the first big private equity deal announced post-August market crisis. As such, I'm...

... of ordinary, sound judgment could conclude that the corporation has received adequate consideration". The transfer must either serve no corporate purpose or be so completely bereft of consideration that "such transfer is in effect a gift." In re 3COM Corp. Shareholders Litig., 1999 Del. Ch. LEXIS 215 (Del. Ch. Oct. 25, 1999). This standard hardly ever applies to extreme amounts of compensation ...

... was filed in a U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas earlier this month. According to the suit, 3Com Corporation was granted four patents from 1994 to 1998 pertaining to network adapters. Two deal with the automatic initiation ... this American technology and American companies in general" when many of the defendants in the current suit are themselves US companies and 3Com does a lot of its work outside the US - surely infringed rights are infringed rights whoever owns them. However, ...

... . Among those new claims: the July 7 suit filed by Park's WIAV Networks holding company against 3Com Corporation and computer parts manufacturers including Dell, Toshiba, Belkin, H-P, Motorola, and many other defendants-22 in total. The WIAV Networks lawsuit, Vasquez says, "appears to be one ... . et al, 08-cv-00702, E.D. Virginia, filed 7/6/09 WIAV Networks, LLC v. 3Com Corporation et al., 09-cv-00101, E.D. Texas (Texarkana), filed 7/7/09 Photo: flickr ...

In E-Pass Technologies, Inc. v. 3Com Corporation (also known as 3Com, Inc.), et al., on January 12, 2007, the Federal Circuit rejected E-Pass's argument that the district court inappropriately granted summary judgment when it elaborated upon the the appellate court's claim construction in a previous appeal, "E-Pass I," in light of the teachings of the appellate court's subsequent en banc decision in Phillips v. AWH Corp., 415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. ...

... e-discovery market." Prior to joining Clearwell, Singh was senior vice president and chief financial officer at Warranty Corporation of America (WACA), the leader in providing service plan solutions to the wireless, communications and retail industries. He joined WACA ... , corporate controller and principal accounting officer. Singh's background also includes leadership roles at Excite@Home, 3Com Corporation and Ernst & Young LLP. For the complete article, click here. Source: In Re Discovery

... reflect its new focus on digital technology. Nineteen years later in 1995, it became Nortel Networks "reflecting its corporate evolution from telephoney manufacturing company to designer, builder, and integrator of perse multiservice networks." Palm Palm Computing ... infringement over its Graffiti handwriting recognition technology. Then it gets convoluted: U.S. Robotics was bought by 3Com, and Hawkins, disgusted with office politics, left to create his own company Handspring. Ironically, not long ...

... what you could actually do to make a difference if the seemingly-inevitable comes to pass. For starters, the state of the art in corporate-land is fairly highly refined at this point. As McKinsey puts it, integrating two firms following a merger has become a " ... on your clients. Navel-gazing just invites competitors to start poaching. Here's a wonderful phrase that encapsulates it: As 3Com's Eric Benhamou cautioned, "'Acquiring customers' is a very arrogant phrase. The customer has to want to be ...

... violates the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's 1996 patent underlying 802.11a/g technology--the core of all corporate wireless LANs and public Wi-Fi networks. Davis issued an injunction blocking Buffalo, a Japanese manufacturer with a ... CSIRO has three other cases challenging Wi-Fi use by Belkin, Dell, D-Link, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Netgear, 3Com, Toshiba, and others. Notably absent is Cisco Systems, which pays royalties to CSIRO from its acquisition in 2001 of ...

Dicta in U.S. Philips Corporation v. Iwasaki Electric Company LTD. (Federal Circuit, November 2, 2007) recognized the importance of significant digits for ranges in claimed ranges. According to Circuit Judge Linn: In some scientific ... of whether this claim construction is sufficient to answer the infringement questions presented by a future record. See E-Pass Techs., Inc. v. 3Com Corp., 473 F.3d 1213, 1219 (Fed. Cir. 2007) ("[A]ny articulated definition of a claim term ultimately must relate to ...