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Assessing Commercial Success at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board
U.S. patents increasingly are challenged on validity grounds through inter partes reviews at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB” or “board”). In fact, from September 2012 through June...Read more
John Jarosz
Managing Principal, Analysis Group, Inc., USA
Robert Vigil
Managing Principal, Analysis Group, Inc., USA
Management of Major Class Action Litigation by In-House Counsel
How does the General Counsel of a large corporation manage the aftermath of a crisis in which the company is directly implicated? As the propensity for victims to launch significant...Read more
Susan Taylor
General Counsel & Company Secretary, AusNet Services, Australia
The Role of Ethics for Central Bank Senior Management: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Developments
The proper management of ethics and conflicts of interest is important for banks and particularly essential for central banks. Much of central bank’s success hinges on their credibility in markets...Read more
Cyber Security: A Practical Viewpoint
Not a day goes by without a new cybersecurity hack which can threaten the very existence of the company concerned. Cybersecurity has shot up the list of concerns of...Read more
Nicolas Grunder
Group Head Legal, Software and IT, Abb, Switzerland
Iain Jacobs
Managing Director, The Contract Centre, Switzerland
Legal Aspects of Managing Government Service Delivery Contracts in Complex Environments
The evolution of public administration over the last few decades has seen governments increasingly outsource community and other services. While in the past focussed at an operational level, government agencies...Read more
Simon Miller
General Counsel, Save the Children Australia, Australia
Sophie Coleman
Senior Legal Counsel, Save the Children Australia, Australia
Functional Claiming Under U.S. Patent Law
Functional claim limitations can be useful for providing robust patent coverage, protecting what has been invented as well as variations therein. Patents employing such limitations can be useful for developing...Read more
Eric Curtin
Attorney, Crawford Maunu PLLC, USA
Braden Katterheinrich
Senior Patent Attorney, Seagate Technology, USA
Shane Sondreal
Attorney at Law, Crawford Maunu PLLC, USA
Solvency II - Benefits of Strategic Implementation
Asset management is the professional management and trading of securities and other types of assets to achieve a specific investment goal. Asset managers specialise in managing discretionary mandates and investment...Read more
Maeve Verdon
Associate General Counsel, AIG Asset Management (Europe) Limited, Ireland
Negotiating Cloud Agreements in the Broker Space - The Role of the Cloud Service Distributor
Prior to 2000 most enterprises purchased, housed and maintained a variety of costly on-premise hardware, software and personnel required to run many of the essential elements of their business (e.g.,...Read more
Rich English
Of Counsel, Slater Law Group, USA
Why it's Important to Have an Effective Compliance Management System in Place
Never before has regulatory compliance been a more important part of your business. Since the financial crisis of 2008, regulations like the Dodd-Frank Act have not only raised the compliance...Read more
Paul Martin
Director Compliance and Strategic Initiatives, United Lender Services, USA
Corporate Governance for In House Legal Counsel
In recent times, it has become commonplace for in house Counsel (“General Counsel”) to assume additional responsibilities within a Company or Group of Companies such as the Corporate Secretary and/or...Read more
Julie Thompson-James
Vice President, Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Secretary, The Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited, Jamaica