In comeback bid, Shkreli’s old company gets OK to buy life-saving drug | Ars Technica


Amid outcry, KaloBios may jack the drug’s price and make millions off FDA voucher.

Source: In comeback bid, Shkreli’s old company gets OK to buy life-saving drug | Ars Technica

Martin Shkreli’s other pharma company files for bankruptcy | Ars Technica


After firing indicted CEO, company now fights to keep shares listed on NASDAQ.

Source: Martin Shkreli’s other pharma company files for bankruptcy | Ars Technica

East Texas judge who oversaw 1,700 patent cases joins biggest IP law firm

US District Judge Leonard Davis said this week he’s going to leave the bench to join Fish & Richardson, a large law firm focused on intellectual property.
Davis, who has presided in the Eastern District of Texas since 2002, has one of the most active patent dockets in the nation and has presided over some of the biggest technology lawsuits of the past decade. Corporate Counsel magazine reported this week that he has handled more than 1,700 individual IP cases as a judge. Before becoming a judge, he worked for 23 years in private practice.

Statistics for 2013 showed 263 new patent cases being assigned to Davis, about one-sixth of the 1,700 patent cases that were filed in the district, the busiest in the nation. Only four other judges, three in Delaware and one in East Texas, had more patent cases assigned to them.

Link (Ars Technica)

Despite privacy policy, RadioShack customer data up for sale in auction

RadioShack is trying to auction off its customer data on some 117 million customers as part of its court-supervised bankruptcy.

The data in question, according to a legal challenge launched by Texas regulators on Friday and joined by the state of Tennessee on Monday, includes “consumer names, phone numbers, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, and, where allowed, activity data.”

The states say the sale breaches the 94-year-old chain’s promises to its in-store and online customers that it would not sell their personal identifying information (PII) data.

Link (Ars Technica)