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Handling a variety of expert witness cases, including patent disputes, inter partes review of patents, equipment failure, operational negligence, trade secrets, damages modeling and oil and gas commercial litigation, Harold McGowen shares more about why these cases occur and what he predicts is in the pipeline for the petroleum field in the upcoming years. Why […]
With Brazil being the seventh biggest economy in the world with a GDP of USD 2.3 trillion, it is no surprise that investors are more interested in expanding outside their jurisdiction.
Allowing the globe to rapidly like, share and manipulate others’ content, the internet comes with several advantages, yet challenges alike. The IP sector is no different. How much of an issue is copyright infringement now, in comparison to a decade ago, when the use of the internet was not as wide as it is […]
An IP license is essentially giving another person the right to use your intellectual property, which can be anything from your trademark, your copyright, your patent, your know-how, formulas and other processes and things you have created. Many people refer to IP as creations of the mind. Through a license, you are allowing others to […]
What classifies as infringement? Infringement comes in many forms and, in simple terms, it describes the act of violating a law. But in the context of intellectual property, we tend to think of infringement as the act of taking advantage of or exploiting the rights of another party without their permission to do so. The […]
The Value Gap: what is it? Digital technology has revolutionised the music and entertainment industries in many ways, not least in the way in which music is distributed. The old “analogue” distribution paradigm has been turned on its head, especially in relation to physical products, and technological advance continues to create new and exciting opportunities, […]
For a wide variety of businesses grow and maintain their intellectual property portfolios, they must enforce their intellectual property rights. How do you know the value of IP? You can appreciate the value of IP rights by looking at some of the most well-known and successful companies in the world, such as Samsung, Apple, or Facebook In most cases, […]
Data recovery can reveal more than you may want people to truly know. I mean, that is what the ‘empty from recycle bin’ button was invented for; we wanted to remove all traces of something which may come bite later on. However, speaking to Steve Burgess, President of Burgess Consulting and Forensics, we find out […]
Whether the transaction is by way of sale of the business as a going concern or sale of assets or court-approved merger schemes, it is important that the seller and purchaser consider carefully the mode of employee transfer. Senior Partner, Ms Nohid Nooreyezdan expands more below. Accordingly, Section 25FF of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 […]
The practice of Architecture is challenging, absorbing, fascinating, and complex. Architecture has been described as a practical art, frozen music, being about how a building’s shape, decoration, features and materials come together to form a look or a style. In his treatise de Architectura, military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio set out, in the 1st Century […]
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