http://competition.law360.com/ The Newswire for Legal Professionals Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://competition.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://competition.law360.com/ http://competition.law360.com/articles/132947 A jury has awarded $13.4 million to I-Flow Corp. in a suit against Apex Medical Technologies Inc. and one of its principals who I-Flow accused of patent infringement, unfair competition and stealing trade secrets related to a medical infusion pump. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132947 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132917 The Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe of CVS Caremark Corp., raising questions about the focus of the investigation given recent complaints from lawmakers, unions and community drugstores that the 2007 merger of the drugstore giant with a pharmacy benefits manager has curbed competition. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132917 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132831 Hong Kong is considering whether to allow class action litigation in the wake of losses Hong Kong minibond investors suffered from the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132831 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132913 A judge has rejected a request by manufacturers including Honeywell International Inc., Wix Filtration Corp. and United Components Inc. to dismiss consolidated suits alleging price-fixing in the market for automotive filters under heightened pleading standards, saying the plaintiffs’ claims, which are based on eyewitness accounts, are more than sufficient to proceed in court. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132913 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132801 A group of paying customers has banded together in a newly amended complaint to accuse Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH of prosecuting a patent it knew to be invalid in order to stymie generic-drug makers in their efforts to get cheaper versions of the Parkinson's drug Mirapex to market. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132801 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132911 AT&T Inc. has completed its $944 million acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp. following conditional approval of the deal by the Federal Communications Commission, which demanded certain divestitures over competition concerns. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132911 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132870 A New York jury has handed a $600,000 verdict to publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. in a lawsuit it filed accusing a man of unlawfully importing and reselling textbooks in violation of various intellectual property and competition laws. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132870 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132722 A fugitive former General Motors Corp. commodity manager has returned to the United States after evading custody for more than a year, pleading guilty Thursday in a kickback and fraud scheme involving the sale of bulk aluminum. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132722 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132544 The U.S. Department of Justice has named Leonard Grunstein, head of two real estate practice groups at Troutman Sanders LLP, as a defendant in a civil complaint in the still-unfolding case involving nursing home drug supply giant Omnicare Inc., which agreed Tuesday to pay $98 million to settle claims that it was part of a broad kickback scheme. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132544 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132700 Antitrust violations in Russia can now be treated as a criminal offense punishable by up to six years in jail under a measure introduced by the country's Federal Antimonopoly Service. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132700 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132669 Russia’s antimonopoly bureau has fined Russian oil giant OAO Lukoil 6.54 billion rubles ($225.7 million) for abusing its dominant position in the wholesale markets for jet and motor fuels. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132669 http://competition.law360.com/articles/131602 The health care bill proposed last month in the U.S. House of Representatives would give the Federal Trade Commission new authority to study competition in the health insurance industry — but antitrust attorneys say that won't necessarily lead to new regulations or tougher enforcement. http://competition.law360.com/articles/131602 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132596 The Swiss Federal Competition Commission has hit state-owned telecommunications group Swisscom AG with a fine of 219 million Swiss francs ($216 million) for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the broadband market by overcharging competitors for high-speed Internet access. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132596 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132620 A federal judge has ordered the California Department of Health Care Services to cough up documents after siding with McKesson Corp. in a discovery battle in a proposed class action accusing the company of conspiring to inflate the average wholesale price of hundreds of drugs. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132620 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132670 A former senior executive of tomato processor SK Foods LP has agreed to plead guilty to participating in a four-year conspiracy to bribe major food producers and fix prices, according to federal prosecutors. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132670 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132507 Plaintiffs who accused more than a dozen major title insurers of conspiring with a New Jersey rating bureau to fix prices have returned with a new complaint that aims to assuage previous doubts regarding the antitrust suit. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132507 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132320 Ceridian Corp. has asked a judge to sanction a group of truck stop owners that filed a putative class action against it over an alleged anti-competitive scheme in which Ceridian unit Comdata Corp. supposedly charged independent outfits like the plaintiffs inflated fees to process Trucker Fleet Card transactions. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132320 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132290 After negotiating with regulators in four countries, Panasonic Corp. on Wednesday announced its plans to make a tender offer valued at a minimum of $4.5 billion to acquire all shares of its rival Sanyo Electric Co. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132290 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132409 New York's attorney general on Wednesday launched an antitrust action against Intel Corp., alleging the microprocessor giant bribed and threatened computer manufacturers to block the sale of rivals' products in a “worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct.” http://competition.law360.com/articles/132409 http://competition.law360.com/articles/132382 The European Commission has launched an in-depth probe into possible aid Sparkasse KolnBonn has received and asked the German savings bank to provide a restructuring plan, the competition watchdog said Wednesday. http://competition.law360.com/articles/132382