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Here is a review of specific aspects of Delaware corporate law by Prof. Stephen Bainbridge as applied to recently enacted severance plans by Yahoo in connection with Microsoft's recent takeover attempts, including a discussion of whether those plans should be treated as "dead hand pills". The good professor, one of the leading corporate law scholars in the country, refers to his prior writings as part of his analysis about a ...

Prof. Bainbridge analyzes here the applicable standard under Delaware corporate law that would apply to the defensive measures taken by Yahoo to spurn the advances of Microsoft. He explains why the case of Blasius v. Atlas Corp ... apply. Blasius imposes a heightened standard of review when the shareholder franchise is interfered with by the board. Yahoo amended its bylaws in reply to Microsoft's bid so that the date by which nominations for board members had to be submitted was delayed until 10 days ...

... Co. Inc. (patent infringement) 8/21: Xpoint Technologies Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, Intel Corporation, Marvell Technology Group Ltd., Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Hewlett Packard ... 21: LadaTech LLC v. Illumina Inc. (patent infringement) 8/21: Congoluem Corporation v. Cryntel Enterprises Ltd. Inc. (patent infringement) 8/21: Aventis Pharama ... Dayco Products LLC (trademark infringement) 9/4: Hospira Inc. and Orion Corporation v. Sandoz International GmbH and Sandoz Inc. (patent infringement) 9/4: ...

... with the court's decision," said Alcatel-Lucent spokeswoman Joan Campion in an email statement. Microsoft, meanwhile, intends to "seek relief from the trial court, and if necessary appeal," Tom Burt, Microsoft corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, said. The two companies are currently ... . Microsoft said in a filing last week with the U.S. District Court of Delaware that Alcatel-Lucent had violated four patents dealing with computer and phone systems that monitor and run ...

... . Smith, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation Viet D. Dinh, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator) 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Panel II "Can Corporations be Brought Back to Courts as a Dispute Resolution Mechanism? Should They?" Kenneth Feinberg, ... Georgetown University Law Center Randy J. Holland, Justice, Delaware Supreme Court Ramona E. Romero, Corporate Counsel and Manager of Law Firm Partnering, DuPont ...

... on freezeout mergers in Delaware corporations. Normally, I expect people to use the alternate spelling ("acquiror") when discussing Delaware corporate law, even though "acquirer" is viewed in some circles as the proper form. (Indeed, Microsoft Word automatically changes "acquiror" to "acquirer.") So I wondered whether my expectation of "acquiror" was grounded in practice, and I turned to Westlaw. " ...

... , Inc., a Texas Corporation with its principal place of business in Sugar Land, Texas, sued Twitter, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in San Francisco, California, alleging the infringement of US Patent No. 7,130,389, issued on ... , 2008, in one of the last acts the court took for the year, the United States Court o Patent Injunction: Microsoft Ordered to Stop Selling WordYesterday, Leonard Davis, a United States District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Texas ...

... . Working off our example, change the owner to a Nevada LLC with their principal place of business in Atlanta. Change the architect to a Delaware corporation with their principal place of business in Chicago. Now we have contacts with five states instead of just one. ... governing law. Currently it's Section 13.1of the A201. So, the out-of-the-box "default" choice of law is the situs state. Microsoft Internet Explorer's default homepage is MSN.com. But you can change the homepage to some other site. ...

... ensures a balance of copyrights (IP Osgoode) Counterfeit goods: Statutory and punitive damages: Microsoft Corporation v 1276916 Ontario Ltd et al (Canadian Trademark Blog) Denmark DRM breaker reports himself to anti-piracy group (TorrentFreak) Europe Pirate Party gets ... : Ex Parte Rodriguez (precedential) (Peter Zura's 271 Patent Blog) District Court Delaware: Microsoft denied declaratory judgment jurisdiction a second time in patent dispute with WebXchange (Washington State ...

... in Honolulu rather than Texarkana). 8) Cambridge Technology Development, Inc. v. Microsoft (NDIL, November 16). Appears to be a category-1 NPE that is a shell of its founder, Edward ... get in on the Rembrandt MDL in Delaware. 13) Fuzzysharp Technologies Inc. v. 3DLabs, Inc. (NDCA, November 26). Fuzzysharp is a Nevada shell corporation started by the inventor of the patent, ... 176 patent cases, 329 defendants sued (13 troll cases) D Delaware: 128 patent cases, 310 defendants sued (16 troll cases) ND ...