Fiserv Inc., the manager of check-processing and cash machines, won a U.S. patent-infringement lawsuit filed by a Canadian company over software technology designed to prevent check fraud. Fiserv doesn’t use the invention covered by the patent owned by closely held ...

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Santarus and the University of Missouri accused the generic drugmaker Par Pharmaceutical of infringing five U.S. patents for the heartburn medicine Zegerid as a nonjury trial began in federal court. Santarus, a San Diego-based company that licenses the patents from ...

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Mars Inc., the maker of M&M candies, received payment of $27.7 million Tuesday in the final stage of a 20-year-old patent dispute with a St. Louis company. The fight was over electronic-coin mechanism technology for vending machines. Mars, based in ...

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Boeing Co. is entitled to at least $16.9 million in compensation after winning a patent-infringement claim against NASA over an aluminum alloy used to build the Space Shuttle. Boeing, the world’s second-biggest commercial-plane builder, developed a lighter structure for frames ...

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A closely held pet-food maker sued by Nestle, which owns St. Louis-based Purina, for patent-infringement said it was using the technology in dispute for years before the world’s largest food company sought patent protection. Wysong Corp., of Midland, Mich., filed ...

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Alcon Inc., the world’s biggest eye-care company, sued Synergetics USA Inc. of O’Fallon, claiming infringement of a patent used for laser delivery during eye surgery. In the suit filed Feb. 25 in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, Alcon also ...

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A mother sobs gently in her deposition, describing the last moments of life her teenage daughter experienced after a head-on collision. She cries as she talks about the plans her daughter had to go to medical school and how she ...

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A St. Louis-based manufacturing company has won the right to proceed in its patent infringement lawsuit against a government contractor after being denied its suit against the U.S. government. “As far as we know, this is the first time a ...

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Blagojevich seeks to disqualify Fitzgerald from case Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell the vacant U.S. Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama, asked a judge to disqualify Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald from the case. In papers ...

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Coin Acceptors Inc., a St. Louis-based company ordered to pay nearly $27 million in a patent infringement case, filed a legal malpractice lawsuit against two St. Louis law firms and the two lawyers who handled the case. The defendants are ...

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