The AIA introduced a variety of provisions that affect patent litigation, including four new post-grant proceedings adjudicated by a new Patent Trials and Appeal Board to challenge the validity of a patent. This article discusses trends in how patent ligation is approached and conducted in this new landscape.
Further advance your ability to practically apply financial decision-making practices to your everyday work; and Utilize the analytical tools that indicate whether a new project will create value, such as: Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period and Economic Value Added (EVA).
In this ACC Guide, in-house counsel will learn how to organize their physical and electronic records to create a more efficient legal environment. While automation can be challenging, there are many systems that departments can use to find success.
Building upon the lessons learned in Part I (Session 911), faculty will further discuss the practical application of financial decision making practices to your everyday work. Faculty will also explain important analytical tools that indicate whether a new project will create value, such as: Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period and Economic Value Added (EVA).
In a first-of-its-kind case to focus on trademark infringement and dilution in the virtual world, a nine-person jury in Manhattan, New York has sided with the French fashion house, Hermès International S.A (“Hermes”) in its legal battle against Sonny Estival aka Mason Rothschild (“Rothschild”), the creator of the “MetaBirken” Non-Fungible tokens (“NFTs”).
This checklist is a tool and guide to necessary and optional elements to negotiate and document the principal agreement or deal document in an international or cross-border joint venture (“JV”) between a U.S. party or parties and one or more non-U.S. parties.
Many in-house counsel are deciding that an ideal relationship with outside counsel involves a long-lasting commitment to partnership and collaboration, to understanding each other's interests and goals, to open communication and to pursuing new strategies. Read this article and learn how to establish outside counsel partnerships based on trust.
The blockchain was just one of many so-called “ground-breaking” technology stories of 2016. An important question for all in-house lawyers to ask is whether this invention is actually breaking new ground or just loosening the soil?
As noted in a recent New York Times article, “there is a widespread belief that software and algorithms that rely on data are objective. But, software is not free of human influence. Algorithms are written and maintained by people, and machine-learning algorithms adjust what they do based on people’s behavior.” In an era where big data is used for decision-making purposes, the legal profession grapples with possible hidden bias and the need for greater transparency in the use of black-box algorithms. This session will explore data ethics and the need for its inclusion in information governance conversations within corporations as entities collect, use, and monetize client data. The session will explore C-suite transparency in connection with software used for insider threat monitoring and surveillance, making hiring decisions, and monitoring various forms of employee behavior.
Learn about the most significant amendments related to personal data protection in Qatar's Data Protection Regulations effective 19 June 2022.
Here are some great tips for increasing productivity and growth even during tough economic circumstances.
Law departments should seek to partner young or new in-house lawyers with experienced in-house counsel.
Learn about the UK government's intention to expand corporate accountability for compliance with financial crime requirements.
This article focuses on how to treat intellectual property (“IP”) and rights to IP in U.S. M&A transactions, particularly in the technology and life sciences sectors, in which IP often accounts for a substantial amount of Target’s value in the deal.
This article discusses the Financial Conduct Authority's Restricted Mass Market Investments customer journey review. The review sets out findings on firms’ compliance with new rules for promotion of high risk investments to retail clients and provides examples of good and poor practice for firms to consider.
Finding a new job is always important — but so is your exit from your current role.
Columnist Craig S. Long provides firsthand advice as to how to cope with the transition to working as an in-house attorney in the must-read article.
This is a sample temporary employment services agreement where Company 2 is in the business of providing temporary personnel, skilled, unskilled, and professional, as required.
On 28 February 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published its Regulatory Initiatives Grid updating the timeline of the Overseas Funds Regime (“OFR”), the new equivalence regime for retail investment funds and money market funds established outside the UK, which will allow recognised funds to be marketed to the public in the United Kingdom.
Learn about certain provisions of Quebec's privacy protection act which come into force September 22, 2022 and a chcklist for organizations to prepare for compliance on governance, breach response, and with commercial transactions.
Top ten tips on the best way to enter a new environment as the company's first in-house counsel.
The advent of the pandemic forced companies to adopt to a digital work world in a short amount of time. Companies had to implement business solutions and train their employees and customers on new software. While the pandemic has impacted how work is done for almost two years, the digital changes to business are here to stay. Further digitalization is on the horizon for most businesses if they want to remain competitive.
The changes which are to be ushered in by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 are substantial and ambitious. This guide seeks to summarise the key changes that the new law will bring and to highlight the most important actions which organisations should take in preparing to comply with it.
Hints on how to have clear legal sight if you, as an executive officer, might face liability, and how to prepare yourself to avoid or handle the different liability issues an executive officer might face.
How to navigate the new H-1B visa requirements so that you can bring (and keep) the best and brightest nonimmigrant specialists on board.
Learn about the metaverse and related legal issues.
The majority of in-house counsel’s time and attention spent on contracts is often focused on the wording of the limitation-of-liability (LoL) clause. In the brave new world of big data, the significance of the LoL clause cannot be overstated. Although they cannot secure protection from all risks, they need not be leaky sieves.
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