U.S. jeweler Tiffany & Co has filed a $590m counter-claim against Swatch Group SA, the Swiss watchmaker said on Monday, the latest volley in the companies´ feud over a failed deal to sell watches together.
When New York adopted no-fault divorce in 2010 after decades of failed attempts, lawyers and families praised legislators for eliminating the need for one of the bitterest elements of a divorce: assigning blame.
After years of avoiding the Twittersphere, Big Law is warming up to the advertising power of social networking.
A Munich court has upheld an injunction preventing publication of Hitler´s "Mein Kampf." A German weekly had wanted to print excerpts accompanied by commentary from academics.
The U.S. Justice Department told Apple Inc. and five publishers that it´s preparing to sue them for allegedly fixing the prices of electronic books, according to a person familiar with the matter.
For the second straight year, a record number of patent holders filed infringement claims at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
A statute on foreign lawyers in Japan should be amended to allow them to practice law on an equal footing with Japanese attorneys, a legal expert said Wednesday.
Within three months of the launch of the Internet "pornography" domain ".xxx," 10 cases have been launched against Web pirates registering sites on it using the names of reputable companies and people, insiders said on Monday.
Although this topic may be of more general interest (as it concern all sorts of court proceedings in Germany) this Class 46 member thought that readers of Class 46 should at least be aware of the following as it may have implications on proceedings in trade mark (and design) cases as well.
Brazil has become the sixth-biggest economy in the world, the country´s finance minister has said.
Newsweek and The Daily Beast honor 150 extraordinary women.
Japanese prosecutors said Wednesday they have filed charges against Olympus Corp. and six individuals allegedly involved in the company´s $1.5bn accounting scandal.
U.S. prosecutors have filed papers in New Zealand seeking the extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues, whom they accuse of making a fortune by helping Internet users share files illegally.
Pilot scheme to take place in four areas instead, allowing people to ask police if their partners have a history of domestic violence.
On March 1, CNN´s evening news magazine Anderson Cooper 360 reported that a document it had obtained showed engineers from Toyota Motor Corporation had discovered an electronics problem that caused sudden unintended acceleration in a preproduction Lexus.
All but two of the EU´s 27 leaders have signed a new treaty to enforce budget discipline within the bloc.
Halle Berry´s ex is suing the actress for thousands a month in maintenance, it was claimed.
A German court on Friday rejected two cases brought by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. against each other.
The Egyptian parliament began discussions Saturday regarding the make-up of the constitutional assembly that will be responsible for writing Egypt´s new constitution.
The trial of former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde, on charges of negligence over the 2008 financial crisis, has begun in Reykjavik.
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