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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
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
Common Reporting Standards
The recent spate of news resulting from the leak of over 11 million documents from the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, (now commonly known as the Panama Papers or the...Read more
Sören Seitz
Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer, Manulife Asia, Hong Kong
Steven Yeo
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Manulife Asia, Hong Kong
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
A View From the Coal-Face: Corporate Governance Issues in Charging Out and Incentivising In-House Counsel
Information on a company’s costs and risks is crucial to the individuals responsible for the management of the organisation. The in-house legal function has an obvious role to play in...Read more
Jürg Gassmann
Principal, Gassmann Consulting, Ireland
Intellectual Property Challenges in the Food & Beverage Sector
While distribution of food through the correct food channels may address the world’s ever increasing food needs to meet the growing population, food manufacturers will still need to deliver not...Read more
Afzana Anwer
Head of IP, Altilium Clean Technology, UK
The Future of the In-House Lawyer
Over the past two years, it has been a privilege to work with many senior General Counsel, those who work with them – including a Chairman, a Chief Executive and...Read more
Richard Tapp
Former: Company Secretary and Director of Legal Services, Carillion, UK
The Evolution of In-house Legal & IP Departments
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. This quote, likely incorrectly attributed to...Read more
Michael Kock
Head IP, Syngenta International AG, Switzerland
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
Content Portability and the Digital Single Market: Why your favourite content may still not be available to you?
The publication by the European Commission (the “Commission”), in December 2015, of its proposal for a Regulation to ensure EU cross-border portability of online content services (the “Regulation”) represented...Read more
Alec Cameron
Senior Legal Counsel (Intellectual Property & Digital Rights),, Telefonica S.A., UK