Several years ago, the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) informally agreed that they would work towards full liberalisation o ..
Disciplinary procedures: easy when you know what you're doing, but a costly & bureaucratic nightmare when you don't tick all the right boxes during the process. Getting a clear set of disciplinary rules in place for your organisation isn't diffic ..
Either copyright should apply equally to all works, or it should apply to none,I disagree. We should be careful in determining which classes of works we should grant copyrights to, and which we should not, and what the maximum lengths of the terms fo ..
FAQs for VOs/NGOs What is a Voluntary Organization (VO) / Non Governmental Organization (NGO)? Voluntary organizations (VOs) / Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) include organizations engaged in public service, based on ethical, cultural, social, ..
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit underscores the danger of assuming you can transfer IP licenses in a merger or business sale without the express consent of the licensor.In Cincom Systems Inc. v. Novelis Corp., Cin ..
How to persuade clients to negotiate (and that they might enjoy it!)In 1906, Jack B. Yeats wrote an article for The Guardian describing the Flat Iron Market in Manchester:"Here you do not stand sourly while a pale-faced short-tempered shopman wh ..
SummaryIn Morgan Stanley & Co International Plc v China Haisheng Juice Holdings Co. Ltd. an English court has held that an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of the English courts in the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement ("Master Agreement&quo ..
The term ‘cyber crime’ is a misnomer. This term has nowhere been defined in any statute /Act passed or enacted by the Indian Parliament. The concept of cyber crime is not radically different from the concept of conventional crime. Both i ..
NEW DELHI: The Centre for the first time made public its plan to deal with the huge pendency of over three crore cases in the trial courts and high and told the SC that it was preparing a roadmap to ‘liquidate’ the backlog in courts by th ..
CHENNAI: Billions of dollars of Indian wealth could be stuck in Swiss bank accounts simply because of the absent-mindedness of their original account holders. Apart from the money that living tax evaders may have stashed away in tax havens, there is ..