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On March 15, 2024, a United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted Defendant's Motion to Dismiss in the matter of Rodriguez v. Ford Motor Company. In [...]

L2 Mobile Technologies LLC, an entity under the control of NPE Longhorn IP LLC, has filed a second lawsuit in its sole litigation campaign, accusing Ford (1:21-cv-01409) of infringement through [...]

The SCOTUS decision in Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court1 is a decision that we believe will alter the legal landscape in the defense of product liability [...]

Over the last few years, the Supreme Court has had a reputation as very pro-business. Late last month, however, the Court handed consumers a rare win related to personal jurisdiction. [...]

On March 25, 2021, the United States Supreme Court issued its latest decision on personal jurisdiction in the context of two product liability lawsuits involving Ford Motor Company in the [...]

How close a connection does there need to be between a lawsuit and the defendant's in-state activities for specific personal jurisdiction to apply? The Supreme Court issued a decision on [...]

The Sixth Circuit's recent decision in Zirbel v. Ford Motor Company (2020 BL 445882, Nov. 16, 2020) provides a useful illustration of the key issues that arise when ERISA plans [...]

Licensors of software typically utilize software license agreements providing for their ownership of the licensed software and related IP, as well as restrictions barring licensees from reverse engineering the code [...]

In Paice LLC, The Abell Foundation, Inc., v. Ford Motor Company, Appeal No. 2017-1406 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 1, 2018), the Federal Circuit reversed a PTAB decision for failing to properly [...]

In a recent order, Administrative Law Judge ('ALJ') Shaw denied Complainants' Paice LLC and the Abell Foundation, Inc. ('Paice') motion for evidentiary sanctions against Respondent Ford Motor Company ('Ford') for [...]

In Paice LLC v. Ford Motor Company (Fed. Cir. Feb. 1, 2018), the Federal Circuit affirmed-in-part and vacated-in-part the Board's IPR decisions finding certain claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,237,634 [...]

In Romeo v. Ford Motor Co.,1 a recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Justice E.M. Morgan considered the principles applicable to a motion to intervene in a [...]

On July 6, 2017, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the 'Board') denied Petitioner Ford Motor Company's ('Petitioner') request for rehearing of the Board's decision denying institution of multiple inter [...]

In a unanimous 64 page decision, the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Four in Los Angeles affirmed the defense verdict in favor of Exxon Mobil Corporation and Ford Motor [...]

Addressing the standard for initiating a covered business method (CBM) review, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) declined to institute CBM review given the generic, broad nature of the [...]

In two recent final written decisions (FWDs) rendered in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) narrowed the scope of the proceedings by [...]

On November 8, 2016, Judge Kevin Gross of the Delaware Bankruptcy Court issued an opinion (the “Opinion”) that affects nine different bankruptcy cases. The Opinion was issued in response to [...]

In Ford Motor Co. v. Paice LLC, IPR2015-00787, Paper 35 (Oct. 21, 2016), the Board dismissed Ford's inter partes review (IPR) challenge of a claim based on estoppel under 35 [...]

On January 20, 2016, the Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed the Minnesota Court of Appeals' decision in Ford v. Minneapolis Public Schools in a narrow holding that leaves unanswered some important [...]

When evaluating major corporate decisions, such as potential merger-and-acquisition opportunities, a corporation's board of directors is tasked with exercising its management or supervisory role with a view to the best [...]

On November 2, 2015, a group of plaintiffs won a motion for attorneys' fees against Ford Motor Company, even though Ford's voluntary recall of vehicles mooted the plaintiffs' lawsuit. In [...]

Earlier this week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision in In re: South African Apartheid Litigation dismissing claims brought pursuant to the Alien Tort Statute ('ATS') against [...]

By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Richard G. Andrews in Vehicle Operation Technologies LLC v. Ford Motor Company, Civil Action No. 13-539-RGA (D.Del., July 1, 2015), the Court granted [...]

Last Friday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc held that telecommuting up to four days a week was not a reasonable accommodation under the ADA for a [...]

Over a decade after the Supreme Court's decision in Cooper Industries v. Aviall, the divide between CERCLA Section 107 cost recovery claims and Section 113 contribution claims remains unsettled. PRPs [...]

Edited by Paul Devinsky and Rita Weeks Ford Motor Co. v. Paice LLC Addressing whether it has the authority to decide a contractual dispute in the context of a post [...]

We wrote a post the other day entitled Is There A Duty To Mitigate Emotional Damages? In it we cited a case where a court held that the EEOC was [...]

In Ford Motor Co. v. United States, No. 10-1934 (6th Cir. 2014), the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Oct. 1, 2014, that the taxpayer wasn't entitled to approximately [...]

Changes in telecommuting practices may be around the corner for many employers, as the recent 2-1 decision in EEOC v. Ford Motor Co., 2014 FED App. 0082P (6th Cir. 2014) [...]

In EEOC v. Ford Motor Company, the federal Sixth Circuit appellate court (covering Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee) recently held that telecommuting may be a reasonable accommodation under the Americans [...]

Executive Summary:The Sixth Circuit recently held that a four day per week telecommuting arrangement could be a reasonable accommodation for a disabled employee, even though the employer determined, in its [...]

'A good company delivers great products and services but a great company does that and makes the world a better place'. This statement by William Ford Junior, Chairman of the [...]

The United States District Court for the District of Delaware denied a plaintiff's attempt at a private remedy action for a violation of Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Rule 10b-17. [...]

It has been recently reported in Law360 that the Court of Appeals of Maryland, in Dixon v. Ford Motor Co., No. 82, 2013 Md. LEXIS 465 (Md. July 25, 2013), [...]

Last week, the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways faced additional scrutiny when nineteen states joined the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation of the pending transaction. Greg Abbott, [...]

Presenting Objections, Preserving Issues The Superior Court recently held that an attorney's failure to make timely or effective objections to the composition of a jury prevented a trial court from [...]

Modern technology is challenging our conception of the traditional workplace, especially in the service and information sectors. Remote network connections, online video conferencing, portable web-enabled devices, and other advances have [...]

The 'every breath,' or cumulative exposure opinion, has been proffered by plaintiffs' experts in asbestos cases to prove specific causation, regardless of the type of product or amount of exposure. [...]

Ansa Logistics Ltd -v- Trowberg Ltd (2012) highlights the legal and commercial difficulties a landlord must overcome when seeking to recover possession of premises based on the ground the tenant [...]

District courts have jurisdiction to order officers of the court--such as attorneys who have entered an appearance in a criminal case--to provide an accounting of fees even if those fees [...]

It's been a very good few weeks in the California appellate courts for asbestos defendants and perhaps the beginning of a broader trend towards leveling the playing field in the [...]

Incontestable Trademark Newsletter - March 2012 CASE SUMMARY FACTS National Business Forms & Printing Inc. ('NBFP') is a small commercial printer, located in Texas, that makes custom signs, stickers, banners, [...]

This article previously appeared in Last Month at the Federal Circuit, February 2012. Judges: Newman, Prost (author), O'Malley [Appealed from N.D. Ill., Judge Zagel] In Krippelz v. Ford Motor Co., [...]

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find interesting or relevant - or [...]

Originally published in The 2011 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada Cultural similarities and integration of the US and Canadian economies make it likely that questionable [...]

Overview Once signed into law, Senate Bill 142 will overturn a controversial 2001 Florida Supreme Court ruling that altered Florida's product liability litigation by defining how motor vehicle crashworthiness cases [...]

The United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky recently denied a plaintiff's motion for class certification insofar as it sought certification of a nationwide class. See Corder [...]

On March, 11, 2010, a Michigan appellate court dealt a significant blow to Ford Motor Company and a major victory for subrogated insurers litigating product liability cases in that state. [...]

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware granted a motion last year compelling a vendor to disgorge a $1.25 million payment it had received under critical vendor [...]

Weighing in on when it is appropriate to set aside a consent judgment stemming from a trademark infringement dispute, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that [...]