Recent News: GE Appliances & LG Electronics, and NBC Universal Lawsuit

LG Electronics, GE in pact to share appliance patents
South Korea's LG Electronic and U.S. manufacturer General Electric Co. have agreed to use each other's patents for refrigerators and cooking appliances without paying licensing fees, the companies said...

GE's NBC Universal Must Defend Predator Show Lawsuit (Update2)
General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal must defend a $100 million lawsuit brought by the sister of a Texas prosecutor who killed himself as a network show was about to film his arrest for soliciting a minor online. The suit in Manhattan federal court followed the 2006 suicide of Assistant District Attorney Louis Conradt, who shot himself in his home in Terrell, Texas, as police were about to arrest him. Waiting outside his house were an NBC Universal crew about to film a segment of ``To Catch a Predator,'' a show that works with local police to catch suspected sex offenders...