Ford Motor Co. has been named in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by a company that alleges that the auto manufacturer infringed on seven patents, most of them related to Bluetooth and audio communications. The company, Bainbridge Island-based Eagle Harbor Holdings, and its subsidiary Medius Tech, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The lawsuit alleges that Ford has used patented Eagle Harbor technologies related to audio communications and Bluetooth in its popular Sync voice-activated communication…

The family of pop star Michael Jackson has reached a settlement with a California-based charity foundation in a copyright infringement lawsuit. In 1992, Michael Jackson set up a charity foundation that he named the Heal the World Foundation. The organization had shut down several years before the star died at the age of 50 in 2009. In 2008, after the Heal the World Foundation charity had stopped functioning, another charity with the same name was founded by Melissa…

The Labor and Employment Law Section serves the needs of labor and employment law professionals in San Diego County. The Section offers educational programs and provides its more than 400 members an opportunity to meet and share ideas informally with employment law practitioners, union and management representatives, government personnel, arbitrators, mediators and academicians. In its educational goals, the Section attempts to keep members up to date on current law developments and to demystify many cutting-edge labor and employment…