Intellectual Property Law

How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes – New York Times

Some profits at companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft derive not from physical goods but from royalties on intellectual property … complying with applicable laws and accounting rules.” It added, “We are …

Burford Chief Investment Officer Authors Major White Paper Detailing Impact of Litigation Funding on – PR-USA.net

Burford’s portfolio ranges from commercial contract and real estate disputes to intellectual property, trade secrets, and antitrust cases. Burford has worked with many leading law firms, including half of the AmLaw 50. “The speed of acceptance of the role …

Most Entrepreneurs Need to be Inspired to Perspire – The Business Insider

Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Incorporate … accountants, and law firms. Though innumerable factors are a part of every success, it’s arguable that the ratio …

Omaha cast net that caught cyberthieves – Omaha World-Herald

And here’s the truly scary part: Operation Trident Breach is a metaphorical drop in what seems to Dun and other law enforcement officials … carted off nearly $1 trillion in money, intellectual property and other proprietary information …

Internet copyright protection faces conundrum – People’s Daily Online

Qu Sanqiang, professor of Intellectual Property Law in the Peking University Law School, said that it is doomed to be a tough war for the government, Internet operators, the copyright owners and general public that how a work can keep … Continue reading

Oracle-Google trial puts ex-Sun execs on opposite sides – CNET News

They are immune to copyright laws, good citizenship … He stated that Java was “extremely valuable” to Sun and that it involved “lots of intellectual property.” In response to Oracle lawyer David Boies’ question regarding whether it was …

Fish & Richardson Named 2012 "Go-To Intellectual Property Law Firm" for Top Fortune 500 Companies by – PR-USA.net

Fish & Richardson has been named a 2012 “Go-To Intellectual Property Law Firm” for the top Fortune 500 companies. According to the April issue of Corporate Counsel magazine, this “noteworthy achievement” is an honor that puts Fish “in an elite … Continue reading

Internet Piracy is Not the Problem: It’s Time To Eliminate Intellectual Property – policymic.com

They found that the works of author Edgar Rice Burroughs that are in the public domain, and thus lack copyright protection, are widely available on Amazon and from most booksellers, yet the works still “protected” by the intellectual property laws … Continue reading

After Angry Birds Incident, Scott Stringer Writes Letter to Ray Kelly – Village Voice (blog)

particularly in vendors’ native languages. It is our firm belief that efforts to increase education and voluntary compliance with counterfeit merchandise law will both protect intellectual property and build community support for enforcement efforts …

Protecting your ideas – Al-Ahram Weekly

Hegazi explains that worldwide laws speak about legalising intellectual property where people can own the productivity of ideas and expressions. “If someone has an idea for a machine, for example, he can protect it when he starts applying it in … Continue reading