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SmileDirectClub Files $2.8 Billion Lawsuit Against NBC over Defamatory and Error-filled ‘Nightly News’ Story

NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – SmileDirectClub, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDC) the oral care company and first direct-to-consumer medtech platform for teeth straightening, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit seeking approximately $2.8 billion from NBC Universal Media (“NBC”) and reporter Vicky Nguyen for knowingly and intentionally making factually inaccurate, misleading and defamatory claims about the Company and [...]

Netflix Files Suit Against Local Internet Service Provider over Network Usage Fees

SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix, the world’s leading video streaming service provider, has filed a lawsuit against a local internet service provider over network usage fees, industry insiders said Tuesday. Netflix Services Korea Ltd., the Korean unit of the U.S. streaming giant, filed the suit against SK Broadband Inc. requesting a Seoul court [...]

PureCircle Files Patent Infringement Case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

CHICAGO, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — On Monday, April 6, 2020, Chicago-based PureCircle, the leading global innovator and supplier of stevia ingredients, including sweeteners and flavor enhancers, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Almendra Americas LLC of Decatur, Georgia, and Almendra (Thailand) Company Limited of Bangkok, Thailand. PureCircle claims that Almendra’s [...]

New Law to Enhance Protection of Consumers from Humidifier Sanitizers

SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment said Monday it will proclaim a revision of the current law regulating humidifier sterilizers this week, seeking to expand the scope of diseases caused by the use of the chemical products and facilitate victims’ lawsuits against their manufacturers. A revision of the Special Act on [...]

Jennewein Biotechnologie GmbH Enforces its Patents in the Field of Human Milk Oligosaccharides Against Nestlé in Germany

RHEINBREITBACH, GERMANY, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Jennewein Biotechnologie GmbH filed a patent infringement suit with the regional court in Mannheim on January 09, 2020 against Nestlé Nutrition GmbH and its holding company Nestlé Deutschland AG. Nestlé offers its infant formula Beba Supreme which contains two human milk oligosaccharides – unique saccharides naturally occurring in [...]

BMW Korea Wins Lawsuit Against Government’s Emission-related Fine

SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — BMW Korea has virtually won a lawsuit against the over 60 billion-won (US$51.7) fine imposed by the government over the auto company’s gas emission verification, sources said Saturday. In September, the Supreme Court of Korea convicted BMW Korea of illegally skipping the compulsory gas emission verification process and forging [...]

Court Overturns Ruling on Female Worker Fired for Not Showing Up at Work

SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The appellate court reversed a lower court’s decision on a case where a working mom hired as a probationary employee was not taken on as a regular employee after refusing to work on weekends to take care of her children. Seoul High Court, in a case filed by a [...]

Supreme Court Rules Native English Teachers are Employees and Qualify for Severance Pay

SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court has ruled that native English-speaking instructors can also receive severance pay or annual leave allowances as they are employees under the Labor Standards Act. In a lawsuit filed by eight native English teachers against their former private language institute in southern Seoul, the Supreme Court [...]

Centrient Pharmaceuticals Initiates a Second Patent Litigation in India Against Dalas Biotech Limited

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Centrient Pharmaceuticals announced that on October 14th 2019, its wholly owned subsidiary, Centrient Pharmaceuticals India Private Limited, filed a second lawsuit against Dalas Biotech Limited in the High Court of Delhi in New Delhi, India for patent infringement of Indian Patent Number 318914. This patent, which is owned [...]

Court Rules in Favor of Airport-stranded Angolan Family Seeking Refugee Status

SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Overturning a lower court decision, a Seoul appellate court on Friday ruled in favor of an Angolan family stranded at the country’s main airport while applying for refugee status in the country after fleeing persecution in their homeland. The Seoul High Court ordered immigration officials to grant the family [...]