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Africa Update

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

In This Issue: Leading the News; United States – Africa Relations; North Africa; East Africa; West Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; and General Africa News. Excerpt from Leading the News - Uganda: On March 23rd, President Barack Obama notified...

The Explicit Definition of a Claim Term Is Not Limiting Where It Excludes a Preferred Embodiment - ButamaxTM Advanced Biofuels, LLC v. Gevo, Inc.

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

Relying in part on evidence that a district court’s claim construction excluded a preferred embodiment, which was the subject of a dependent claim, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit explained that the “explicit definition” of a claim...

BVI court ruling highlights potential risk in some standard form M&As

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

On 19 March 2014 the Commercial Court handed down its ruling in C v W Inc (BVIHC (Com) 2013/149). In that case a shareholder holding more than 30 per cent of the company’s shares tried to exercise its power to requisition a shareholder meeting under...

Taking the Road Best Travelled? CFE seeks electric-gas “convergence”

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

The recent constitutional reform of the Mexican energy sector will catapult Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) into an unfamiliar competitive market environment. The rules of the game are not yet in place, but the...

Defendant Fails to Meet Safe Harbor Standards with Deletion of Metadata (California)

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

Gardner v. Cafepress, Inc., 2014 WL 794216 (S.D. Cal. Feb. 26, 2014). In this copyright case, the plaintiff alleged that the defendant infringed on the plaintiff’s copyrights to an image and sought the seizure and/or destruction of all products...

Bill of law on Internet-related matters is voted in Brazil

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

The so-called “Marco Civil da Internet” (i.e. the Bill of Law 2,126/2011, which establishes a civil rights framework for the Internet) was voted and approved by the Brazilian House of Representatives (Câmara dos Deputados) this week. Now it will be...

Cybercrime Loses It's Right to Silence

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

In 2012, the director gen¬eral of MI5 revealed that a London-listed company had lost £800 million as a result of a state-backed cyber at¬tack. The company in question has not been publicly identified and no disclosures were made to the market. Why...

The Case Of The Defamed Doctor – SLAPP’ing Down Defamation Cases In Texas

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

While on a date to the Laugh Factory Comedy Club, Terry Tellsall busted a gut laughing and was rushed to Texas General Hospital. Incensed by the treatment and bedside manner he received from Dr. B.D. Manner, Terry barraged his friend Cindy Cussin...

Court Issues Sweet Ruling for Plaintiffs in Mislabeling Action – Ignorance That “Evaporated Cane Juice” Is An Added Sugar Not “Implausible”

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

In Morgan v. Wallaby Yogurt Co., Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied defendant’s motion to dismiss a class action complaint alleging violations of the UCL, FAL, and CLRA for mislabeling yogurt products, but...

Do You Know the Statute of Limitations in an Underinsured Motorist Case?

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

Los Angeles Uninsured Motorist attorney Barry P. Goldberg is regularly asked this question because his article "Effectively Preserving the Statute Of Limitations in Uninsured Motorist Cases" is one of the most viewed resources on the topic by both...

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