AmerenUE Officials Express Disappointment Over Legal Filing, Point to Progress, Challenges on One-Year Anniversary of Taum Sauk Plant Breach
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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 13  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AmerenUE officials today expressed disappointment over a legal filing by the Attorney General of the State of Missouri. "We have not had an opportunity to review the legal filing and cannot comment on it in any detail.
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The trial is one of a host of legal difficulties facing Siemens that has shaken the country unlike any other recent business scandal.
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A legal battle is shaping up in California involving a Chinese startup that makes equipment used to produce semiconductors.Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment&#160;(AMEC), of Shanghai, was sued in California by Applied Materials, which claims the company misappropriated its trade secrets. But lawyers for the Chinese company asked the judge to dismiss the suit, arguing the U.S. court has no jurisdiction over AMEC&#39;s activities.AMEC&#39;s motion for dismissal will be heard by Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, on Feb. 11.Applied&#39;s lawsuit, filed in October and amended last month, claims AMEC used its trade secrets to develop etch and CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposit) tools that are used to make chips. AMEC&#39;s tools will compete against similar products from Applied, which cost millions of dollars each. Applied is seeking an injunction from the court to prevent the misappropriation of its trade secrets and wants punitive damages as well as a declaration that it owns patent applications recently filed by AMEC.Applied identified four former employees in the suit, including AMEC founders Gerald Yin and Aihua Chen.Applied&#39;s amended complaint describes Yin, who left Applied in 2004 to start AMEC, as a former corporate vice president and chief technology officer who &quot;managed the etch product group and had broad access to Applied confidential information and trade secrets concerning its etch tools.&quot; In addition, the complaint says Chen at one point served as general manager of Applied&#39;s CVD product group and had access to proprietary technology related to those tools.To bolster its case against AMEC, Applied noted that the former employees identified in the lawsuit signed agreements that give Applied all rights to inventions made during their employment, and prevent them from using Applied&#39;s confidential information for anyone else&#39;s benefit. Under the agreement, any patents filed by the former employees within one year of leaving Applied are &quot;presumed to have been conceived or made during their employment with Applied and would belong to Applied.&quot;As a result, Applied&#39;s complaint lays claim to two AMEC patent applications filed in China on August 5, 2005, that name Yin and other former Applied employees as inventors. These patents should belong to Applied as the patent applications were made &quot;one year and three days after Yin left applied&quot; and therefore must be based on information that Yin disclosed to AMEC during the one year period, the complaint said.AMEC subsequently filed patent claims in Japan and the U.S. based on the Chinese patent applications. Applied&#39;s complaint also claims these patent applications as its own, noting Applied filed its own patent applications covering the same technologies.In response, AMEC&#39;s motion to dismiss argues that the U.S. court has no jurisdiction over the Chinese company.&quot;In this case, there is no jurisdiction over AMEC Inc., because the allegations of the (amended complaint) relate exclusively to actions that took place in China. None of Applied&#39;s claims arises out of allegations concerning contact with California,&quot; the motion said, adding any legal action by Applied against AMEC should be heard in a Chinese court instead.
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A third of the countryâs oil refineries have reported disruptions like fires, power failures, leaks, spills and breakdowns this year.
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General Motors Corp. has repeatedly failed to disclose vehicle safety defects to the federal government in a timely manner, leading to a $1 million penalty against the company last year, according to documents made public yesterday.
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President Bush's push to revise the Clean Air Act sometimes has hindered enforcement of the existing law for cleaning up coal-fired power plants, the Justice Department's top environmental lawyer said Tuesday.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two years after an explosion tore apart the Sago Mine and killed 12 men, prompting Congress to pass legislation strengthening mine safety standards, many of those standards have yet to be implemented.
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The unfair business practices lawsuit was set to start in November but is pushed back to Jan. 10.
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ABB yesterday tried to play down an appeals court setback that could derail its $1.2bn US asbestos liability settlement. Shares in the Swiss-Swedish engineering
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The European Commission is considering legal action against the Government over âunacceptable failingsâ in dealing with nuclear waste at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria.
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One year on and deregulation disappoints
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Legal actions against major polluters have stalled because of the agency's decision to revise rules governing emissions at older coal-fired power plants.
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Swiss engineering firm ABB has suffered a setback over its plans to finalise a $1.2 billion (SFr1.48 billion) asbestos settlement in the United States.
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By Janice L. Habuda, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 4--Parking no longer is an issue, but People Inc. faces continuing delays in its plan to build a group home on land it owns in the City of Lackawanna.
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By Staff and Wire Reports  The bill would delay legal action for waterway cleanup by as long as 18 years.
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An emergency motion was filed Friday the 13th of August in US District Court of Eastern Michigan, Compuware said that IBM failed to provide essential evidence, which includes several pieces of disputed software source code, until after the case&#39;s ...
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Disappointments abound across business lines. Apparently, it is time for a change.