Rochester Business Journal

• Not yet a relic of history, hourly rates still prevalent
  
• Kodak closes on $848 million financing agreement
  Eastman Kodak Co. closed Friday on its previously announced $848 million financing with members of the steering committee of the second lien noteholders and other holders of Kodak’s senior secured notes.
• Intellectual Property Law Firms
  Information was provided by individual firms with offices in Monroe County that practice intellectual property law and responded to an email survey: ranked by number of local attorneys specializing in intellectual property law.
• Law firms form Geneseo-based joint venture
  Faraci Lange LLP and the former firm of Jones & Skivington has formed a Livingston County joint venture, the Law Offices of Peter Skivington PLLC, officials said Monday.
• Kodak seeks more time for bankruptcy plan
  Eastman Kodak Co. wants its lenders to give it more time to develop its plan to emerge from bankruptcy. The company also expects to complete the sale of its digital imaging patents this week.
• Burns & Schultz law firm joins with Davidson Fink LLP
  
• Filings decline in 2012
  
• DirectBuy to pay $500,000 to settle N.Y. lawsuit
  DirectBuy has agreed to pay $500,000 and adjust some policies to settle charges that it has misled consumers with deceptive sales pitches, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Thursday.
• Court OKs sale of Kodak's digital patents, Business Park's utilities
  The $527 million purchase of Eastman Kodak Co.’s digital imaging patent portfolio was approved Friday by a U.S. Bankruptcy judge. The approval is key step in Kodak’s effort to emerge from bankruptcy during the first half of 2013.
• OLEDWorks, bank settle legal dispute
  
• Kyocera files patent suit against Kodak
  Eastman Kodak Co. has been sued by Kyocera Corp. for allegedly infringing on some 15 of the Japanese firm’s U.S. patents with its inkjet printers, digital cameras and other devices.
• URMC pursues pacts in Asia
  
• Class-action case targets LeBeau
  A class-action complaint filed this week in federal court targets James Lebeau, who heads LeBeau Inc. and does business as Beau Productions. His company manages Frontier Field and LeBeau is the stadium director. His company also mounts the Lilac Festival and other events.
• Kodak keeps control of bankruptcy through February
  Judge Alan Gropper of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan approved an extension for Eastman Kodak Co. to retain exclusive control of its bankruptcy case through the end of February, Reuters reported.
• IBC honors RF Communications, Freed Maxick at expo
  Harris Corp.’s RF Communications division was named Exporter of the Year, and Freed Maxick CPAs P.C. earned the 2012 Best International Service Provider award at the International Business Council’s 21st Annual Trade Banquet & Expo Tuesday night.
• Eastman Kodak plans to end retiree benefits on Dec. 31
  Eastman Kodak Co. has reached a proposed agreement in which it would terminate its retiree benefits program effective Dec. 31.
• Lawsuit claims staff underpaid at Applebee's
  
• Bankruptcy filings in region continue to decline
  Rochester-area bankruptcy filings continued a more than yearlong decline, statistics for September show.
• Fruit juice firm claims ex-exec squeezed its IP
  
• SEC files civil actions against Tackaberry, Mura
  The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed new court charges against Edward Tackaberry and also named Tackaberry in separate administrative action targeting Tackaberry’s former boss in an alleged scheme to lure more than a dozen investors into sinking some $850,000 into questionable investments.

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