The widow of Kyle L. Rooke has filed a wrongful death case regarding an explosion at a gas drilling outside Pinedale on January 5, 2011. Mr. Rooke was severely burned and was pronounced dead at the rig site by the EMT’s who responded to the explosion. The suit was filed by Mrs. Rooke in the … Continued
The First Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision on September 14, 2011, that emphasized the elements that must be established to maintain a successful copyright infringement suit. The case was brought by Airframe Systems, Inc. against L-3 Communications Corporation. Airframe had developed proprietary aircraft maintenance tracking software in 1979. By July of 2003, the … Continued
A contractor was killed at a coal mine in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming on September 1, 2011, according to an article in the Casper Star-Tribune. The death occurred at the North Antelope Rochelle Mine which is owned by Peabody Energy of St. Louis, Missouri. The individual who died was an employee of Weston Engineering, a … Continued
On August 8, 2011, Walker Digital, the parent company of Priceline.com, sued Microsoft Corp and three Sony businesses over technology for storing player preferences. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Delaware. The suit claims that Walker maintains a portfolio of more than 500 patents and patent applications, including two gaming patents … Continued
Stanley Ng was arrested in California on charges arising from the Southern District of New York on August 10, 2011. Mr. Ng, a former manager of Marvell Technology Group, was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud by allegedly providing insider information about Marvell to a consultant at expert networking firm Primary … Continued