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Cessione di crediti pubblici assistiti da garanzia dello Stato

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

Abbiamo redatto il presente memorandum al fine di illustrare le misure introdotte per favorire, mediante previsioni ad hoc sulla concessione della garanzia dello Stato e sulla trasferibilità della stessa garanzia, le cessioni di crediti pubblici a...

TelecomMexico is granted with operator license

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

Telecomunicaciones de Mexico (TelecomMexico) obtained a telecom license on September 5, 2013, and the title has been published on the Federal Official Gazette on December 20, 2013. This license has the purpose of operating a 15,000 miles of optical...

Schools And Municipalities–Don’t Make These Construction Contract Mistakes

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

School districts and municipalities often accept form agreements provided by their design professional or consultants, or use a standardized set of construction contract documents (such as the American Institute of Architects (AIA) documents) for...

First Circuit Dismisses FCA Claim For Failure To Plead Fraud With Particularity And Denies Further Amendments Of Complaint

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

On December 6, 2013, in U.S. ex rel. Helen Ge, M.D. v. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (No. 13-1088), the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of Dr. Helen Ge’s qui tam actions against her former employer, Takeda Pharmaceutical...

Kimberly-Clark v. First Quality: District Court Excludes Expert Testimony on Obviousness for Failure to Include the Opinion on Obviousness in the Expert Report

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. ("Kimberly-Clark) filed a patent infringement action against First Quality Baby Products, LLC ("First Quality") over a variety of patents relating to disposable absorbent products, such as diapers and incontinence...

CLIENT ALERT - Recent Changes to Online Privacy Laws in California

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

California Online Protection Act - The California Online Protection Act (the “Act”) requires a commercial Internet website or online service to conspicuously post a privacy policy on its website if it collects personally identifiable information...

Miranda Warnings: When a Suspect Won’t Stop Talking

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

Miranda warnings regularly appear on TV and in the movies. The police advise the alleged suspects of their rights under the law to not incriminate themselves by what they say. On TV, the suspect stays silent. Any attempt by the police to force the...

International Arbitration - Q4 2013

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

AUSTRALIA: NEW GOVERNMENT MAY LEAD TO OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTOR/STATE ARBITRATION - This autumn, the people of Australia elected a new federal government, presenting a number of potential opportunities for investor-state arbitration in Australia....

Patent Settlements as an endangered species: DG Comp’s latest Monitoring Exercise on Patent Settlements in Europe

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

Executive Summary - On 9 December 2013, DG Comp published its fourth report on the monitoring in Europe of patent settlements. Like its predecessors, the report welcomes the continuously low level of settlements that may give rise to antitrust...

On the 10th Day of Privacy, my employer gave to me …..

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/12/13

And, no — it was not a big fat bonus. On this 10th Day of Privacy, we look ahead at employment related privacy issues …. As use of social media and other technologies continue to raise serious employment-related privacy issues in the workplace,...

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