U.S. Court of Appeals Rules That Smith & Nephew Does Not Infringe KCI Patents.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smith & Nephew's Advanced Wound Management division today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a trial court judgment that the gauze-based Versatile 1 negative pressure wound therapy system marketed by Blue Sky does not infringe KCI's...

German Appeals Court Rules in Favor of AGA Medical in Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Occlutech.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- AGA Medical Holdings, Inc. ("AGA Medical" or "AGA") announced today that a German appeals court has ruled in its favor in a patent infringement proceeding against Occlutech GmbH, headquartered in Jena, Germany. The lawsuit was brought by AGA in 2006 in Dusseldorf, Germany seeking...

CGI Awarded US$25 Million Contract for Medicare Appeals System.
Stock Market Symbols GIB.A (TSX) GIB (NYSE) www.cgi.com/feeds FAIRFAX, VA, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CGI Federal, a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded the company a contract for...

CA upholds annulment of matinee idols.
The Court of Appeals has upheld the decision of a lower court granting the petition of actress Kristine Hermosa to annul her marriage with actor Diether Ocampo, saying there is sufficient evidence to prove that no valid marriage ceremony actually took place between them. The CA's Second...

Third Circuit Requires District Courts to Make Findings that Each Element of Rule 23 is Met Before Granting Class Certification.
Originally published January 16, 2009 Keywords: Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Sherman Act, class certification, Hydrogen Peroxide Antitrust Litigation, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, common questions of law The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently clarified the standard of proof necessary...

'In a despotic manner...'.
IN its resolution last month, the Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals' decision ordering the Makati RTC to proceed with the trial of the P18.8-billion damage suit filed by Banco Filipino Savings and Mortgage Bank against the Central Bank Board of Liquidators. IN its resolution last month, the...

Rapist's conviction thrown out; Gardner lawyer to be resentenced.
Byline: Gary V. Murray WORCESTER - The state Appeals Court yesterday vacated one of suspended Gardner lawyer Gary R. LeBlanc's 2005 convictions in a case in which he was found guilty of drugging and raping an 18-year-old woman. While affirming Mr. LeBlanc's Oct. 20, 2005,...

Alabang Boys remain in jail.
The Court of Appeals (CA) has junked the so-called Alabang Boys' petition for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus supposedly for their release from detention pending the review of prosecutors' resolution dismissing the drug complaint lodged against them. With this development, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said...

SC rules on tax exemption for electric co-op.
The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed a Court of Appeals (CA) decision that ordered the Davao Oriental Electric Cooperative, Inc. to pay the Davao Oriental provincial government some R1.8 million in real estate taxes, excluding penalties and surcharges, from the time the government lifted the tax exemptions of electric...

SC stresses rule pawnshops are exempted from 5% investors tax.
The Supreme Court (SC) has reversed the decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) as it reinstated the ruling of the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) that pawnshops are exempted from the payment of the five percent lending investors' tax. In a decision promulgated last Feb. 12...