Vol. 2, No. 5, Autumn 2008

The patent system in the United States was intended to help promote the useful arts by providing inventors of new technologies the time-limited right to exclude others from the market in exchange...Read more

In many cases, when a company or business is acquired or where there is a merger of companies, the trade mark portfolio of the target company is ignored as unimportant....Read more

Corporate Governance is one of the most discussed topics amongst Corporates today. The decade of 1990s could be remembered with the buzzword of ‘Corporate Governance’. It is a set of...Read more

This paper will discuss the development and ultimate decline of BNFL, a Government owned public limited company in the nuclear sector, and its in house legal team. It considers the...Read more

This paper is intended to provide a brief overview of the legal framework for the protection of trade marks in Jamaica. I have noted a few of the “at a...Read more

Most people think that being in private practice is much more demanding or difficult than being in-house. In many ways this is true, such as routine working hours, complexity of...Read more

The role of an investment bank legal department head who manages both financing and capital markets transactions is twofold. It is in the first instance a defensive role, focused on...Read more

The modern law office is an amazing place when compared to the law office of the past. If we go back only a little way, the modern law office may well...Read more

Recent cases in the UK and the US have highlighted the risks for company directors and managers taking part in cartels which are subject to criminal penalties under UK and...Read more

This is the era of the expert. Modern construction litigation is a morass of Critical Path Method schedules and other intricate details that all but cry out for expert testimony....Read more

You can imagine the scenario: It’s Monday morning, 8:20am. The receptionists are just getting settled, and the few employees in the office are gathered around the coffee machine. All of...Read more

As a former prosecutor, I understood that each crime I prosecuted had certain “elements,” which must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt in order to secure a conviction. The “elements”...Read more

The first thing to ask. What is the rationale for an acquisition? Mergers and acquisitions are considered by bidders to achieve strategic goals like the expansion of assets, sales and...Read more

Italian law on public procurement has recently undergone substantial modifications with the enactment of legislative decree 163 of 12 April 2006, as subsequently, in a typical Italian style, amended, lastly...Read more

As a result of the increased awareness of the need to have effective compliance programs in place, the concept of data privacy has recently become very much a hot...Read more

This article will highlight the difference between commercial (usually more flexible) and corporate (usually more legal and sometimes more rigid) approaches to making and implementing contracts, and explore some of...Read more

As elsewhere in the world, arbitration is the most common form of alternative dispute resolution in Italy. Due to the need to keep all matters in a dispute confidential and the efficiency...Read more

With the continuously increasing globalization of US corporations, it is to be expected that the US investment industry would not be far behind. Based on a recent review of 51 top hedge...Read more

This paper discusses the role of a multi-national corporation's law department in adding value to the business in emerging markets. In particular, the manner in which regulatory issues are handled is used...Read more

Having an effective technology evaluation and patenting strategy in place may be critical to the growth of a company or to prevent a company from losing its competitive edge. When an invention...Read more

Participants in capital markets expect more from company boards and audit committees than ever before. Shareholders expect (and deserve) transparent and reliable information on all significant organisational aspects, not limited to financial...Read more