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Canadian Privacy Law: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
This white paper provides a general overview of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”), and discusses both the privacy requirements imposed by that Act as well as...Read more
Patrick Zeller
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Guidance Software, USA
Understanding Multinational Corporate Liability for Violations of International Law under the US Alien Tort Claims Act
Over the past 30 years, litigants in the United States have resurrected the long-dormant Alien Tort Statute (ATS) in order to bring civil lawsuits in US federal courts against multinational...Read more
Laney Vazquez
Senior Counsel, BP America Inc., USA
International Litigation and Forum non conveniens: Strategies and lessons from the aviation context
International litigation is now a fact of life for most corporations. They may find themselves hauled into court in unexpected places and, perhaps more often than anywhere but their home...Read more
Karl Hennessee
Vice-President, Public Law & Technology, Halliburton, USA
Passport Without A Visa: Open Source Software Licensing and Trademarks
Open source software has defied its sceptics and become a big business. Governments at the national, state and local level across the globe are requiring open source in their projects....Read more
Harvey Anderson
General Counsel, Mozilla, USA
Tiki Dare
Director, Trademarks, Sun Microsystems, USA
Understanding Implications of Compliance to Government Contracts
Government contracts are complex instruments that require rigour, discipline and foresight well beyond the signature and execution of the deal. These contracts have unique obligations and duties not generally intuitive,...Read more
Nishat Ruiter
General Counsel, TED Conferences, USA
Patent Demand - A Simple Path to Patent Reform
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
Tim Wilson
Senior IP Counsel, SAS Institute Inc., USA
Five Considerations for US Advisers Contemplating Registration in the UK
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
John Monsky
Partner and General Counsel, Oak Hill Capital Management, USA
Lynne Carreiro
Senior Principal Consultant, ACA Compliance Group, USA
Performing a Preliminary Assessment of Patentability for a New Invention: Guidelines For Non-Patent Lawyers
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
Rodney Sparks
Senior Biotechnology Patent Counsel, University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group, USA
Numbing the Expert Pinch: Avoiding Expert Disqualification in Construction Litigation
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
Steve Butler
In-house Counsel, Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc, USA
The Real ID Act and the Public Administration of Global Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Policies
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
Bart Bevers
Attorney, Law Offices of Bart Bevers, USA