In the golden age of attorneys before the 1977 Bates v State Bar of Arizona Supreme Court decision made lawyer advertising legal, practice marketing comprised word of mouth, actual social networking and other first-person methods. But since then ads and a host of other mainstream marketing methods became available to the legal profession. So [...]
For nearly half a century, Pedro Roffe has been a catalyst and an influential leader in global debates shaping today’s international intellectual property system, particularly its interface with a range of issues such as technology transfer, trade, development, investment and public health. At the Secretariat of United Nation Conference on Trade and Development, where [...]
In a judgment this week, the European Court of Justice ruled that “the sale of multimedia player which enables films that are available illegally on the internet to be viewed easily and for free on a television screen could constitute an infringement of copyright. In the case referred to the Luxembourg Court from the [...]
The global economic survey report 2016, ranked cyber crime as the second most reported economic crime during the year. But some questions remain to about how under reported cyber crime is particularly hacking. In some instances companies do not seem to even know they were hacked until well after the fact, and in other [...]
By Executive Order dated February 24, 2017, President Donald J. Trump proclaimed: “It is the policy of the United States to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American people.” In this Executive Order, President Trump ordered the heads of each agency to designate a Regulatory Reform Officer (RRO) within 60 days. The Executive [...]
A reactor which converts carbon dioxide into ethanol, a method for detection of pesticides and contaminant in food and renewable leather created from bacteria won the heart of the jury. After adoption of 2030 SDGs the UN economic commission of Europe (UNECE) sought to show how innovative enterprises can contribute to address today’s social [...]
