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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
'The Past, the Present, and the Future … Clinical Trials and the Contract Research Organisation (CRO)'
In 2016, Clinical Trials globally are performed to ensure safe and efficacious treatment which meet ethical principles, but will these principles meet the challenges of the future? To understand how...Read more
Helen Fovargue
Assistant General Counsel, Iqvia, UK
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
Mobile Payments in the EU: Overview, Legal Framework and Infrastructure and Challenges
The mobile payment revolution has started in our society and is already changing our ordinary lives by merging one of the oldest economic tools –money— with one of the most...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain
Participation of Foreign Companies in Public Procurement Tenders in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Public procurement tenders represent for many companies an important source of business opportunities and their results represent significant portion on their revenues. Sectors like energy, healthcare, infrastructure construction are in...Read more
Richard Bacek
General Counsel of Siemens Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia, Siemens, s.r.o., Czech Republic
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
The Role of Legal Regulation in Banking Supervision.
What system works best in a post financial crisis setting?
The issues of regulation of banking supervision are usually the same in many financial systems. In most cases we have similar authorities and matching regulations to ensure that financial institutions...Read more
Airborne Effrontery: Dealing with an unwanted drone over-flight under Australian law
This paper surveys the existing laws in Australia which impact on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly called UAVs or ‘drones’). It considers the regulatory controls on the users...Read more
Peter Quinlivian
Senior Legal Counsel, Bae Systems Australia Defence Pty, Australia