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China-based hackers looking to derail the $40 billion acquisition of the world’s largest potash producer by an Australian mining giant zeroed in on offices on Toronto’s Bay Street, home of the Canadian law firms handling the deal.
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Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit in Germany seeking to ban sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphone models, including the Galaxy S Plus and the S II.
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati the law firm specializing in technology clients, named Douglas Clark and John T. Sheridan as co-managing partners, succeeding Steven E. Bochner.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. persuaded a judge to dismiss Overstock.com Inc.’s lawsuit alleging the investment bank manipulated short sales of the online retailer’s stock from 2005 to 2007, causing the shares to fall.
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Among companies with altruistic streaks, Patagonia has long stood out for the environmental philanthropy championed by founder Yvon Chouinard. The maker of outdoor clothing and gear has redirected a portion of profits to green causes since 1986 and discloses the chemicals it uses in its products. Patagonia appeared to take this spirit to its logical extreme on the retail industry’s “Black Friday” in late November, when it bought a full-page advertisement in the New York Times showing a picture of its R2 Jacket beneath the words “Don’t Buy This Jacket,” an ironic, or at least equivocal, plea to consume less.
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Intellectual Ventures Management LLC, the patent-licensing firm that filed three patent- infringement suits against technology companies in December, has succeeded in getting counsel for one of the companies disqualified from the case.
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Pfizer Inc.’s Wyeth unit and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. were accused by a group of prescription drug retailers of illegally keeping a generic version of the Effexor XR antidepressant off the market.
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the law firm whose clients include Google Inc., hired Donald L. Vieira, a former chief of staff in the U.S. Justice Department’s national security division.
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Mario Monti, a former European Union competition chief, once told companies like Microsoft Corp. what to do. As Italy’s next premier, he would face a tougher task getting Italians to overhaul the region’s third-biggest economy.
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Research Affiliates LLC, the asset- management company, sued WisdomTree Investments Inc. for allegedly infringing three of its patents.
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