Study Group: International Trade Experts: Lawyers (US)(?)

The article is a decent first cut at an important element in brand building. Brands incorporate trademarks but are not the same. Trademarks signify source (that's why they are adjectives not nouns) but brands incorporate the history of a company, its reputation, customer service, quality etc. ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's recently issued Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Standards of Conduct applicable to natural gas and electric transmission providers would establish revised standards for preventing anti-competitive information sharing between those trasmission...

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision in Popowsky underscores the importance of rate-related benefits in demonstrating that a proposed merger affords sufficient "affirmative benefits" to satisfy the statutory "public interest" standard. Popowsky indicates that promises of continued "good corporate...

-- D.C. Circuit decision in National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. v. FERC vacates and remands Order No. 2004 as applied to natural gas pipelines. -- The Commission's theoretical concerns with potential anti-competitive conduct, without actual evidence of such conduct, were insufficient to justify imposing...

Reports from the Dominican government and US Embassy in Santo Domingo indicate that Verizon and the government have reached an agreement on the amount of sales tax to be paid on the $2bn sale of earlier this year. Reports are that both sides agreed to a sales tax payment of approx. $200m rather than...