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  • verb Present participle of countersue.

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Examples

  • Besides countersuing in the event it is attacked, Google could use the Motorola patents to lend a legal hand to Android partners such as HTC Corp., which is entangled in litigation with Apple over Android.

    Google's $12.5 Billion Gamble Amir Efrati 2011

  • Through his attorney, Mr. Gupta denies that his client did anything wrong and is countersuing the SEC.

    The Fall of Raj 2011

  • Tanya Andersen, a single mom in Oregon who was unsuccessfully sued by the RIAA, is countersuing, and her lawyer is planning to use the suit to drag all the tawdry details of the RIAA's sneaky, unethical "investigation" techniques into the open:

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Morgan Chase is countersuing Lehman Brothers Holdings, claiming the failed investment bank engaged in " collusion and deception " when it persuaded the U.S. ' s second-largest bank to lend more than $70 billion in the days after it filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2008.

    Business Watch 2010

  • But the good news keeps on coming: Ms Andersen is now countersuing for damages arising from her having to defend the suit.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The two are countersuing each other for compensation over the delays, with TVO accusing Areva of gross negligence.

    Jinxed Plant Slows Guy Chazan 2010

  • Big-name rivals IBM, Cisco, Google and Salesforce. com (currently countersuing Microsoft for patent infringement) want to grab their pieces of the enterprise 2.0 pie.

    SharePoint 2010: Four Big-Name Social Networking Rivals 2010

  • Now Weaving is countersuing the parents for “contributory negligence” because they allowed the boy to ride without a helmet.

    Driver in fatal bike accident sues parents for letting boy ride without a helmet 2010

  • Apple followed by countersuing Nokia, accusing Nokia of infringing 12 Apple patents.

    What the mobile patent fight is all about 2010

  • In other news, PublishAmerica is suing Lightning Source, and Lightning Source is countersuing.

    Making Light: Heads Up For Our Friends at Random House 2010

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