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Clarity in U.S. Patent Law: How Far Will the Pendulum Swing?
A number of recent US decisions suggest an ongoing trend toward requiring that US patents provide increased clarity and specificity in describing and claiming what has been invented. It is...Read more
Eric Curtin
Attorney, Crawford Maunu PLLC, USA
Shane Sondreal
Attorney at Law, Crawford Maunu PLLC, USA
Robert Pechman
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Seagate Technology LLC, USA
What Will the In-House Legal Department of Tomorrow Look Like?
How many articles read, how many conferences attended around this question about a vision of the future of in-house legal counsels; but what concrete actions do we need to integrate...Read more
Cécile Kavalses
General Counsel Benelux & The Nordics, Atos, Netherlands
Data Analytics: The Future of Legal
During the 2002 season of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees both won an astounding 103 games, a feat only topped three times by any...Read more
Jeremiah Chan
Legal Director, Google Inc., USA
'Wrapped' Up: Hidden Terms and the Corporate Risk of Online Contracting
Managing contractual obligations is a key role of in-house legal departments. Many times, the process is clear: prospective agreements are reviewed, and obligations are identified and communicated to the appropriate...Read more
Phil Goodin
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, UnitedLex Corporation, USA
Greg Mitchell
Counsel - Litigation Services, UnitedLex Corporation, USA
Global Subsidiary Compliance: Where are the Efficiencies?
Outsourcing is as old as the hills and any discussion around its increasing prevalence in today’s economy is merely a result of increased prominence in the media. Companies have worked...Read more
Matthew Eckford
Regional Engagement Director , TMF Group, UK
Cyber Security: A Practical Viewpoint
Not a day goes by without a new cybersecurity hack which can threaten the very existence of the company concerned. Cybersecurity has shot up the list of concerns of...Read more
Nicolas Grunder
Group Head Legal, Software and IT, Abb, Switzerland
Iain Jacobs
Managing Director, The Contract Centre, Switzerland
Negotiating Cloud Agreements in the Broker Space - The Role of the Cloud Service Distributor
Prior to 2000 most enterprises purchased, housed and maintained a variety of costly on-premise hardware, software and personnel required to run many of the essential elements of their business (e.g.,...Read more
Rich English
Of Counsel, Slater Law Group, USA
Fighting Back Against Misleading Competitor Advertising: How Garmin Successfully Navigated a Route to Banning Misleading Claims by TomTom in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Misleading advertising by a brand's competitors can take many forms. When it uses the 'target' brand's trade marks, and therefore falls within the narrow definition of explicit comparative advertising and...Read more
Andrew Etkind
General Counsel, Garmin, Switzerland
Brinsley Dresden
Head of Advertising Law, Lewis Silkin, UK
Daniel Haije
Partner, Hoogenraad & Haak, advertising + IP advocaten, Netherlands
Daniel Bugler
Associate Solicitor, Lewis Silkin, UK
What is Metadata?
Put shortly, metadata is “data about data”. Unfortunately, that definition tends to invite more questions than it may answer. The question of what constitutes metadata and how it is retained...Read more
David Carrington
Corporate Counsel, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Australia
Alida Vandewiele
Legal Counsel, Bombora Technologies, Australia
Understanding and Negotiating Software as a Service (SaaS) Agreements
Software as a Service or SaaS is an important and growing segment of the commercial software market. Software as a Service can be viewed as a subcategory of the somewhat...Read more
Justin Nelsen
Vice President, Managing Assistant General Counsel, CA, Inc., dba CA Technologies, USA