"Soho could have a good chance of winning litigation," You Yunting, a Shanghai-based lawyer specialising in intellectual property, told German newspaper Der Spiegel.
Using a database of the outcomes of U.S. patent litigation, we find that plaintiffs win patent litigation some 45% of the time at the trial court level.
"But this corroborates that the industry cannot win the litigation battle".
Experts in securities law said that Mr. Kerkorian's lawyers would need to overcome several considerable hurdles to win the litigation.
"I think we have a chance in the short run to win through litigation," he speculated, "and I personally will be exploring the possibility of a legislative compromise".
Salus had called Standard General's offer a "sham" and offered to pay about $271 million for RadioShack's assets, combining the liquidation proposal with $129 million that was contingent on winning future litigation in the case.
Securities-litigation reform laws were supposed to end the race to the courthouse, an unseemly practice designed to win control over litigation by being the first to file.
In a town infamous among industrial executives for handing the state a $2.4 billion jury verdict against lead-paint manufacturers, the AGs hailed their biggest litigation win so far: the $260 billion-plus tobacco settlement signed in 1998 to end lawsuits over tobacco-related medical costs.
We are expecting a big win in litigation with MasterCard and Visa that is not being properly valued by the market.
"It took 5 years of litigation to win the case," Martin recalls.
