O'Connor, Christensen and McLaughlin Wins Verdict.IRVINE, Calif. -- O'Connor Christensen and McLaughlin, successfully completed a three-week-long jury trial in Orange County Superior Court. The case (Alfred and Bonnie Gausewitz vs. Eugene Toth, et al) was a complicated real estate matter involving, among other issues, allegations of adverse possession of an easement easement, in law, the right to use the land of another for a specified purpose, as distinguished from the right to possess that land. If the easement benefits the holder personally and is not associated with any land he owns, it is an easement in gross (e.g. . While O'Connor, Christensen and McLaughlin usually limit their practice to intellectual property matters such as patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. and antitrust cases Although many in the computer field might equate "antitrust" with the long-running Microsoft trial (1998-2004), the U.S. government sued IBM three times in its history for antitrust violations. , this case involved another area of expertise: their ability to try cases to a jury. Edward F. O'Connor, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, stated: "This was a case where the easement in dispute was of great importance to our clients, primarily because of safety issues involving their children. We were very pleased that the jury returned a verdict in favor of our clients in this quiet title action. This was a hard fought case involving many witnesses and a number of controverted facts. This was an unusual case in that, unlike most real estate cases, this one involved a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence circumstantial evidence In law, evidence that is drawn not from direct observation of a fact at issue but from events or circumstances that surround it. If a witness arrives at a crime scene seconds after hearing a gunshot to find someone standing over a corpse and holding a and it was necessary to do a lot of connecting of the dots." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. information supplied by the American Bar Association American Bar Association (ABA), voluntary organization of lawyers admitted to the bar of any state. Founded (1878) largely through the efforts of the Connecticut Bar Association, it is devoted to improving the administration of justice, seeking uniformity of law and the Public Information Office of the U.S. Supreme Court, less than 1 percent of practicing attorneys join the Supreme Court Bar. Of those attorneys, less than 1 percent actually appeared in front of the judicial body in any one term. O'Connor has held matters before the U.S. Supreme Court on three different occasions appearing most recently in the matter of Independent Ink vs. Illinois Toolworks. This antitrust case Noun 1. antitrust case - a legal action brought against parties who are charged with limiting free competition in the market place action at law, legal action, action - a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a involved the doctrine of patent tying, tying non-patented products to patented products, most specifically in this case to the industrial ink and printer industries. He contended Independent Ink should be allowed to sell their industrial ink to companies who use other manufacturers' printers. Illinois Toolworks, the manufacturer of these industrial printers, argued that companies using their patented printers should use only their non-patented ink. About O'Connor, Christensen and McLaughlin O'Connor, Christensen and McLaughlin, with headquarters in Irvine, is an intellectual property litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. firm specializing in antitrust, copyright infringement and patent law. The firm provides legal counsel to clients throughout California, the United States and internationally. They are a highly sought after firm successful in litigating and winning cases resulting in millions of dollars in judgments for their clients. Additional information about the firm can be found by visiting the firm's Web site at: www.ocmiplaw.com or by contacting Pamela Velderrain of PV & Associates at 866-713-2640. |
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