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XERA High Profile Cases Reinventing the RFP: Getting the Most Out of Your Document Review Platform in 2017...and Beyond?HIGH PROFILE CASES iCONECT software, services and people have been a trusted resource for law firms, corporations, government agencies and litigation support providers in multiple high-profile, settled / ruled cases. Mattel Inc. V. MGA Entertainment Inc. (2011) Matttel was forced to pay $88.5 million to MG Entertainment in a iCONECT platform used by Quinn Emmanuel dispute over the Bratz line of dolls. The court found that Mattel did not Urquart & Sullivan, LLP through a Legal Service own drawings of Bratz dolls. The Bratz dolls hurt the sales of Barbie Provider in TrialGraphix dolls significantly over the period of time that the Bratz dolls were on (Kroll On-Track) the market. Plaintiffs v. Bayer Healthcare 1,300 cases / plaintiffs in a MDL Litigation against Bayer claiming its Pharmaceuticals (2011) Yasmin line of birth-control pills caused blood clots in women. Bayer AG CONECT platform iCONECT platform used by (BAYRY) said settlements of U.S. lawsuits over claims that its Yasmin the law firm of Schlichter, Bogard & Denton line of birth-control pills caused blood clots have increased to more than $402 million. Plaintiffs v. Merck (Vioxx Litigation) Cases filed against Merck over adverse cardiovascular events associated (2011 & 2007) with Rofecoxib and the adequacy of Merck’s warnings. Merck will pay iCONECT used by Merck through a Legal nearly $1 billion to resolve criminal charges and civil claims related to its Service Provider in ACT - US DOJ v. Merck & marketing of Vioxx, a widely used pain medicine that the giant drug maker Co., Inc. (settled Nov. 2011) pulled from the market in 2004. Close to 50,000 Plaintiff Lawsuits v Merck & Co, Inc. (settled in 2007 for $4.85 Billion). Plaintiffs v. BP Oil BP and three other energy companies reached a settlement with with (Deepwater Horizon Litigation) (2010) thousands of individuals and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater iCONECT used by BP Oil plaintiffs through Horizon spill that killed 11 workers and fouled the Gulf of Mexico with a Legal Service Provider in conjunction with millions of gallons of oil. BP officials said they expect the company to Herman, Herman, Katz & Coltar pay out approximately 7.8 billion as a settlement with more than 100,000 plaintiffs who are suing the oil giant and others for their role in the spill. Plaintiffs v. Trafigura Beheer The case relates to an incident in 2006 when slops from a cargo ship that (Ivory Coast Pollution) (2009) Trafigura had chartered were dumped in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s main city. iCONECT used by Leigh Day through Trilantic Oil-trading firm Trafigura Beheer BV said it has agreed to pay nearly International Limited, a Legal Service Provider £30 million ($48.7 million) in compensation to people in Ivory Coast who based in the United Kingdom say they were made ill by waste dumped in the West African country. HIGH PROFILE CASES Plaintiffs v. Chinese-Manufactured Chinese Drywall refers to an environmental health issue involving defective Drywall (2009) drywall manufactured in China and imported to the USA starting in 2001. iCONECT used by Parker, Waichman, Laboratory test of samples for volatile chemicals have identified emissions of Alonso LLP the sulfurous gases carbon disulfide, carbonyl sulfide, and hydrogen sulfide. The case name of the major lawsuit is MDL 2047, In re: Chinese-manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation. Settlements ongoing. Oracle Corp v. SAP AG (2007) Oracle sued SAP, alleging that SAP had engaged in copyright infringement by iCONECT used through the law firm of downloading thousands of copyrighted documents and programs from Oracle’s Jones Day Customer Connection website. Oracle, the world’s largest maker of database software, won a $1.3 billion jury verdict in the case in 2010. A federal judge reduced the award to $272 million. The companies agreed on a judgment for $306 million in damages “to save time and expense of this new trial.” British Nuclear Fuels $5.4 billion sale A cross-practice Sutherland team of more than 30 attorneys served as counsel of Westinghouse Electric Company to for British Nuclear Fuels plc in BNFL’s $5.4 billion sale of Westinghouse Electric Toshiba Corporation (2006) Company to Toshiba Corporation. The purchase agreement was signed iCONECT platform used by Sutherland, in London on Monday, February 6, 2006. The $5.4 billion purchase price Asbill & Brennan, LLP represents a significant return on BNFL’s investment, as the company bought Westinghouse in 1999 for only $1.1 billion. AMD v. Intel (2005) AMD launched the lawsuit against its rival, Intel, the world’s leading iCONECT used through the law firm of microprocessor manufacturer. AMD has claimed that Intel engaged in O’Melveny & Meyers, LLP unfair competition by offering rebates to Japanese PC manufacturers who agreed to eliminate or limit purchases of microprocessors made by AMD or a smaller manufacturer, Transmeta. Burying a very large hatchet in the computing industry, Intel agreed to pay Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion as part of a settlement. Eastman Kodak Co. v Sun Kodak sued Sun in 2002, claiming that Sun’s Java programming language Microsystems, Inc. (2004) violated three of its patents. Case resulted in the jury’s finding of infringement iCONECT used by Wilson, Sonsini, by Sun Microsystems in favor of Kodak, which resulted in a settlement of $92 Goodrich & Rosati through a Legal Service million in exchange for a license under Kodak’s patents. Provider in Texas FERC Western Energy Markets Federal energy regulators investigation of Enron to review that the bankrupt Investigation as Part of the Enron power-trader had used “deceit” and “false information” in an attempt to profit Investigation (2004) from California’s troubled electricity market. In addition to probing three Enron iCONECT used by FERC through a Legal subsidiaries for possible misconduct during the California crisis in 2000 and Service Provider in Washington, DC 2001, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission investigated two out-of-state electric utilities that did business with Enron. FIND Contact iCONECT for a list of iCONECT-XERA GLOBAL partners. www.iCONECT.com | [email protected] | 1-855-915-8888 OUT Copyright© 2017 iCONECT Development, LLC. All rights reserved. iCONECT and XERA are registered trademarks of iCONECT Development, LLC. MORE All brand names are either trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. .
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