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Recent Patent Legislation and Court Decisions in the United States: Impact on Validity of Patents and on Obtaining, Licensing, and Enforcing Patents
The United States (US) Congress passed the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, enacting the broadest changes in US patent law in over six decades. The US Supreme Court has...Read more
Rodney Sparks
Senior Biotechnology Patent Counsel, University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group, USA
Chris Paschall
Licensing Manager, University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group, USA
Business for the Rule of Law 
I will start with a bold statement; I think the law is one of the most fantastic, wondrous achievements in the history of human civilization! Even lawyers often don’t recognize...Read more
Ian McDougall
EVP & General Counsel, LexisNexis, USA
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
Bringing Fairness to FCPA Settlements: Protecting the Corporate Form through Respondeat Inferior Subsidiary Liability
The 2012 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) resource guide to the FCPA (Guide) suggests two theories for imposing liability on an issuer for...Read more
Peter Manda
Attorney, Peter Manda, Esq., USA
Global Compliance Training by a U.S. In-House Lawyer: Dealing with the 'Ugly American' Challenge
In the late 1950s Eugene Burdick and William Lederer penned a novel titled the Ugly American. The book became an instant best seller and a half decade later was...Read more
Rob Lindquist
Chief Compliance Officer, Panasonic Avionics Corporation, USA
Everything You Know About Lawyer Selection is Wrong: Big Data Analyzes Litigation
The Brad Pitt film, Moneyball, portrays Billy Beane baseball team manager of the Oakland A’s struggling against accepted dogma in player selection. Beane’s insight was to use already available player...Read more
Toby Unwin
Chief Innovation Officer, Premonition LLC, USA
Who Owns the Data on Your Airline Ticket?
You just made arrangements to the destination of your dreams. On your airline ticket there are some fifty or so pieces of information, most about you, including your name,...Read more
Eric Schlam
Director, Law Department, Assistant General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Airlines Reporting Corporation, USA
On the Road to Recovery: Victims of the Madoff Fraud
In 2008, triggered by the financial crisis, two financial companies fell from power and grace, and were placed in liquidation under the Securities Investor Protection Act (“SIPA”). The failure of...Read more
Josephine Wang
General Counsel, Securities Investor Protection Corp., USA
In a Technological World, What does it Take to be Forgotten?
On a recent vacation, while riding my dirt bike in the beautiful Colorado Desert of California, I came across an area near the Salton Sea known as “Slab City.” ...Read more
Linda Sharp
Associate General Counsel, ZL Technologies Inc, USA
US - EU Safe Harbor Framework: The Changing Landscape of Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Data
We are living in the age of data. Billions of pieces of personal information are generated and transferred between businesses every day, spurring the growth of the digital economy. These...Read more
Jeanette Fitzgerald
General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, Epsilon, USA
Nicole Tachibana
Privacy Manager, Epsilon, USA