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Advocacy or Antitrust? Competitive Engagement and Political Advocacy Under the First Amendment
Fierce business competitors have to step lightly to avoid liability under expansive American antitrust law and Anglo-American ‘commercial interference’ torts. However, both federal and state courts have increasingly interpreted the...Read more
Ramsin Canon
Senior Vice President & Director Legal Services, Saint Consulting Group , USA
Duties of Directors in the Maritime/Offshore Verticals in an Age of Maritime Terrorism
We live in an age of maritime terrorism and the consequences are grave for the planet, people and profits. Given the aforementioned, the duties of directors of corporations ought to...Read more
Safety Governance: Getting it Right Exercising effective safety governance across large, diverse corporations
As companies become increasingly consolidated under the ownership of very large corporations, there is a growing challenge in exercising appropriate safety governance over their constituent businesses. This challenge is compounded...Read more
Stephen Watson
Principal, Risk Practice, Arthur D. Little, UK
Immanuel Kemp
Principal, Risk Practice, Arthur D. Little, UK
Company Data Protection - Friend or Foe?
"There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and...Read more
Anna Wennäkoski
Senior Specialist , Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finland, Finland
The Role of General Counsel in the Public Sector
It is imperative that large organisations in the public sector, as well as the private sector, retain at all times a focus on good governance and upon the lawfulness of...Read more
Geoff Wild
Director of Governance & Law, Kent County Council, UK
Parental Liability in EU Competition Law - A Fair Presumption?
Under EU competition law, there is a presumption that a parent company with a 100% shareholding in its subsidiary company exercises decisive influence. The European Commission has the power to...Read more
Maria Troberg
Senior Legal Counsel, Competition, Nokia, Finland
A Study of Data-Mining in University Libraries
As University Libraries transform their role from passive data collection to a more active exploration and exploitation of information, they face a serious challenge: how can they handle a massive...Read more
Sangita Purohit
Head Library, Ahmedabad University, India
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
Fighting Back Against Misleading Competitor Advertising: How Garmin Successfully Navigated a Route to Banning Misleading Claims by TomTom in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Misleading advertising by a brand's competitors can take many forms. When it uses the 'target' brand's trade marks, and therefore falls within the narrow definition of explicit comparative advertising and...Read more
Andrew Etkind
General Counsel, Garmin, Switzerland
Brinsley Dresden
Head of Advertising Law, Lewis Silkin, UK
Daniel Haije
Partner, Hoogenraad & Haak, advertising + IP advocaten, Netherlands
Daniel Bugler
Associate Solicitor, Lewis Silkin, UK
'Re-Launch' of International Fashion Brands in India: Some Legal Issues
India was an emerging market in the mid to late 1990’s and an unchartered destination for international fashion brands. Brands that hitherto could be purchased only on the occasional foreign...Read more
Suneeth Katarki
Partner, IndusLaw, India
Shefali Shyam
General Counsel, Arvind Brands and Retail Business, India