Press Release
| January 5, 2012
Dewey & LeBoeuf Secures a Significant Antitrust Victory for Panasonic
(NEW YORK – January 4, 2012) – Dewey & LeBoeuf recently secured a significant victory for Panasonic Corporation and its US subsidiary, Panasonic North America, in an antitrust suit heard in the Northern District Court of California.
On January 3rd, Judge Jeffrey White granted a motion by Panasonic and SD-3C LLC to dismiss Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s second amended complaint alleging federal antitrust violations and California unfair competition claims. Samsung had filed a major antitrust and intellectual property lawsuit alleging that Panasonic, SanDisk, Toshiba, and their patent pool administrator, SD-3C, conspired to manipulate the standard setting and patenting process for SD Card technology in order to monopolize the market. In a very favorable ruling, Judge White dismissed the case in its entirety with prejudice. In a prior ruling dismissing the first amended complaint, Judge White also dismissed Samsung’s patent misuse claim with prejudice, but had granted Samsung leave to replead its other claims.
The Dewey & LeBoeuf team included Partners Jeffrey Kessler, Aldo Badini, David Turetsky, Counsel James Lerner, and Associates Susannah Torpey, Ian Papendick, Porter Wiseman, Chris Clark, and Kelli Lanski.
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