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Preview 2013 (UK law)

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 15 2013

2013 will herald some significant changes to the UK legal arena, notably in the corporate area in relation to executive remuneration and narrative

EU political update: 26 - 30 November 2012

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union
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  • November 26 2012

On 20 November the European Parliament voted on reforms to the rules determining which national court has jurisdiction in cross-border cases and how court judgements issued in one Member State are recognised and enforced in another (it is also known as the 'Brussels I reform'

Doing business in Canada

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 17 2012

Unlike the United States, Canada was not created by a unilateral declaration of independence from the colonial occupation of England

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Doing business in New Zealand

  • Simpson Grierson
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  • New Zealand
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  • June 1 2012

This guide introduces you to New Zealand's business and trading environment, with particular focus on legal and regulatory matters

Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. v International Securities Exchange, LLC, No. 2011-1267 (Fed Cir. May 7, 2012)

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 31 2012

A claim using the word “means” is presumed to be a means-plus-function claim unless the claim includes a specific and definite structure, and repeated derogatory statements in the specification are construed as a disavowal of claim scope

Battle plans: patents in the financial services industry

  • Williams Mullen
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  • USA
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  • December 5 2011

For many years, banks and other financial institutions took an isolationist position with respect to the patent wars occurring “over there” in the technology sector. Then came software patents

Noteworthy cases in the United States Supreme Court’s 2011 term

  • Larkin Hoffman
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  • USA
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  • September 21 2011

The first Monday in October represents the start of a new term for the United States Supreme Court

EU political update 18 - 22 July 2011

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 18 2011

On 11 July 2011, European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Michel Barnier delivered a speech at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris in which he detailed three challenges pertaining to the resilience of financial markets

Patent agent pleads guilty to passing insider info about biotech company

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 10 2011

A former biotech company patent agent and his brother have reportedly entered guilty pleas to charges of providing insider tips to others in a conspiracy to violate securities fraud laws