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Trademark Clearinghouse for new gTLDs opens March 26

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • March 22 2013

Brand owners are about to get a tool to protect their brands in the expanding domain name space. After multiple delays, the Trademark Clearinghouse

Anti-corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Global, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 22 2013

Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been found guilty of 24 charges ranging from racketeering to bribery. The verdict followed over 70 days of

Anti-corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 21 2012

Several U.S. mayors are on trial for, under investigation for, or have just been found guilty of charges related to extortion and bribery. A brief rundown:

Anti-corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • September 17 2012

Canadian-based Nordion, Inc. has indicated to US and Canadian regulators that it may have uncovered possible violations of the FCPA and the corresponding Canadian anti-corruption statute, the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. Nordion, based in Ottawa, supplies medical isotopes and had revenue of $274 million in the US in 2011

Corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, Switzerland
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  • August 21 2012

According to court documents released by Switzerland's supreme court, former FIFA president, Mr Joao Havelange, and former FIFA executive committee member, Mr Ricardo Teixeira, took payments from marketing partner, International Sport and Leisure (ISL

Corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • July 19 2012

Montreal based engineering company SNC-Lavalin is accused of offering large bribes to influential Bangladeshi officials to secure a lucrative bridge contract over the Ganges River in India

OECD: global corruption enforcement is on the rise

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • July 15 2012

The new Report of the OECD Working Group on Bribery details its recent work while providing an overview of anti-bribery enforcement around the globe

ICANN reveals list of 1,930 applications for generic top-level domain names (GTLDs) that may include .yourbrand, .yourproduct, or .yourindustry

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • June 13 2012

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers this morning released the list of 1,930 generic top-level domain names that entrepreneurs and others have applied to create and operate on the Internet

Planning for proliferation: delays in the expansion of generic top level domain names create additional time to protect your company’s rights

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Global, USA
  • -
  • May 2 2012

As you may have heard, the internet is moving beyond familiar generic top level domains like .com, .org, and .net and adding hundreds of new gTLDs, like .eco, .NYC, .Canon, .YourBrand, or .Anything

New standards for financial market infrastructures

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • April 18 2012

The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems or CPSS and the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissioners or the IOSCO (whose members include the SEC and the CFTC) published the final report of the Principles of Financial Market Infrastructures or FMIs