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Navigating the Headwaters of Intellectual Property Risk in
the Pharmaceutical Industry
Intellectual property litigation may feel like familiar ground to many competitors in the pharmaceutical drug, medical device, nutraceutical, and other prescription markets. Yet intellectual property laws frequently interact in ways...Read more
Simon Jenner
General Partner, Baker Jenner, USA
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
Applying Global Compliance Standards in a Diverse Regulatory Environment
As a global organization operating in 220 countries and territories globally, a major challenge for DHL Express is to establish compliance standards that can be applied globally. At DHL Express...Read more
Phillip Poland
Director, Customs and Regulatory Affairs, DHL Express Americas Region, USA
Employing Strategic Immigration Practices to Leverage U.S. Immigration Regulation & Policy to Gain Competitive Advantage in the 21st Century Age of Technology
Immigration law is one of the most dynamic and complex segments of U.S. jurisprudence. Not only does one have to traverse through the web of executive agencies to determine how...Read more
Blair Wheat
General Counsel, LHP Engineering Solutions, USA
Preserving Patent Rights to Company Technology
In the United States, patents are issued to the inventors and control of the prosecution of patent applications is presumed to be with the inventors. However, ownership of those patents...Read more
Michael Ram
Senior Counsel, Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Philpott, USA
Brian Fitzpatrick
Associate, Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Philpott, USA
MNCs and the GC - Why it Really Means 'Global Counsel'
In this article, the term GC, traditionally used to refer to General Counsel or the lead legal counsel for a corporation, will be substituted for the more appropriate world-wide sobriquet...Read more
Mark Van De Voorde
Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, Victaulic, USA
Misunderstanding of Confucianism as an Obstacle to Copyright Enforcement in China
Copyright in international scope is deemed to be closely related to specific local culture. Echoed with this theory, many people also begin to analysis the current piracy problem in China...Read more
Xiaolu (Lulu) Choi
Assistant Corporate Counsel, Expeditors International of Washington, Inc., USA
Career Transitions: From Law Firm to In-House and, Possibly, Back Again
Many law firm lawyers hope, at some point in their legal careers, to move in-house with a corporate law department. Often they seek to eliminate the pressure to develop business,...Read more
Valerie Fontaine
Partner, Seltzer Fontaine Beckwith, USA
Collaborative Privacy and Security Programs and the Symbiosis They Can Create
The value of business and human information has increased exponentially, and those who steal and defraud have become more creative and savvy. In our electronic world, machines conduct transactions without...Read more
Marilyn Hanzal
Associate General Counsel, The University of Chicago Medical Center, USA
A Case for Legal Due Diligence in Humanitarian Engagements
Many developing countries have “aspirational” laws, either carry-overs from years of European colonial rule or modeled after European laws (for example, British common law in Anglophone Africa). Rather than having...Read more
Jeffrey Erickson
Clinical Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, USA