All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Legal Issues

I discuss this issue (and other FACTA-related issues) at length in my latest Liability Outlook.

Glaxo’s lawsuit is believed to be the first by a corporation to challenge the rules, which are designed to make the patent-application process more "efficient by encouraging applicants to use greater precision in describing the scope of their inventions," according to a statement by the patent office...

Credit card expiration dates are an important security feature of credit cards. In addition to being one of the inputs required to calculate the three-digit security code found on the back of a credit card, an expiration date is also useful to a criminal as a tool to increase their credibility when...

The ITC recently made a tentative ruling dismissing a NOK patent complaint on the ground that the issues were already intertwined in the QCOM/NOK CDMA arbitration.  That ruling reinforces an important reality of the NOK/QCOM fight: the CDMA arbitration is part of the reason that this fight is dragging...

Litigation underway between Cablevision and the media companies might not look all that important, given that the technology at issue has barely seen the light of day.  But the long-run issue here is the legal status of all sorts of high-tech copying and distribution technologies, and that...

Rambus just announced that one of its senior legal advisors has left the firm.  No wonder.  Rambus has been struggling with the same legal issues for years now; and with the EC now digging into that same mess, the end is nowhere near in sight.

1. Although computers are a manstay in every business setting, it must be remembered that this has only become widespread in the last 10-20 years. Thus, the long term effects of them are only now becoming clear. 2. Electronic records are quite different from paper. They are easier to create so there...

EED is the wave of the future that is already upon us. Law Firms may be reaping financial benefits by having to review and bill for this information, but getting it, storing it and making it all easily accessible will rest with IT.

The implementation of the fiscal reform will not be an easy task. As it happened with previous changes to the tax law, experts say that many companies are now preparing a multitude of requests for constitutional relief (“amparos”) against one or more provisions of the new law.      ...

A State's decision to tax out of State Muni Bonds may be penny wise and dollar foolish. The Federal government may be overstepping its bounds to force States to tax instate & out of State Muni Bonds equally!