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China refuerza observancia de la PI en el desfile de seis meses

Febrero 17, 2011 Por Deja tu comentario

(Westlaw de negocios) Aunque sólo el mundo de la segunda economía más grande, Se informa, China aumentó más allá de la U.S. el año pasado en el registro de marcas, ocupa el primer lugar a nivel mundial con 4.6 millón de marcas registradas en 2010. Despreciado por la conciencia de la importancia de la protección de la propiedad intelectual, el salto en el registro de marcas refleja la creciente confianza en la aplicación judicial de China de las leyes de propiedad intelectual.

Set para cerrar al final de este trimestre, Seis meses de China de la Propiedad Intelectual Rights Campaign se ha centrado en la educación, así como la ejecución de. Tomar medidas fuertes contra software pirata, artículos de diseño, productos farmacéuticos y otros actos de falsificación, el gobierno chino anunció previamente que había descubierto unos 700 Violaciónes de propiedad intelectual por valor de 125 dólares EE.UU. millones de dólares desde que comenzó la campaña del año pasado.

Motivado por la posibilidad de impulsar la economía, animar a las empresas para poner en práctica las estrategias de marcas han hecho sonar una campana con los gobiernos a nivel local en algunas ciudades chinas. Como incentivo, autoridades de la provincia de Hebei había anunciado un bono de RMB300, 000 (EE.UU. $ 45.300) se concederá a empresas que habían logrado el estatus de una marca notoriamente conocida en virtud del derecho República Popular China. En 2010, marcas notoriamente conocidas de propiedad de las empresas chinas eran muy pocos y entre, con las marcas más reconocidas que pertenecen a los nombres de los hogares extranjeros, como Sony, Apple y total.

Junto a los bombardeos de IP, Chongqing y las ciudades de la provincia china de Shandong, también se han puesto en marcha programas de formación y de medidas más severas contra la falsificación en los últimos meses. En particular, la piratería en Internet y las disputas relacionadas con la tecnología se han convertido en zonas calientes de las medidas de aplicación.

Por el camino de fondo, República Popular China de registro de marcas es parte vital de la estrategia de cualquier empresa de protección IP, como registros extranjeros, no se reconocen en la República Popular China la ley. A consecuencia, empresas nacionales y extranjeras por igual a menudo se aconseja a registrar sus marcas comerciales y propiedad intelectual, lo antes posible con el fin de mitigar el riesgo de robo de propiedad intelectual.

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Fusiones y Adquisiciones en China: Tendencias y desafíos actuales en el Reino Medio

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2010 was a very strong year for mergers and acquisitions in the Middle Kingdom. Statistics provided by Thomson Reuters show that over 3000 M&A transactions involving Chinese enterprises with a combined US$131.1 billion were reported in 2010. Among these deals, cross border transactions amounted to US$80.7 billion, un 21.2% increase compared with US$63.6 billion recorded in 2009. In terms of the number of M&A deals, the materials sector saw the most activity with M&A transactions, accounting for 24% of the total, followed by the energy and power sector making up 20%. The financial sector came in third place with 17% of all the deals. These deals were driven by a number of factors including the reorganization of State-owned enterprises, acceleration of the pace of Chinese government’s “zou chu guo men or “going out policy”, and desire of foreign companies to enter into new markets by seeking acquisitions in China,

Sin embargo, notwithstanding the increase in M&A activity and the growing Chinese economy, China remains a challenging environment for foreign investors. Cultural, regulador, due diligence and legal obstacles make acquisitions in China risky and difficult. Foreign companies seeking acquisitions in China are usually aware of well-known risks such as questionable business practices, environmental exposure and the lack of intellectual property protection. Desafortunadamente, they are often unprepared to handle a wide range of cultural, legal and organizational differences presented in China.

Successful acquirors in China are those that commit the required resources and efforts, and use best-practice strategies to minimize the inherent risks. This article identifies the current trends in mergers and acquisitions in China, discusses the key challenges and the common mistakes that are made in connection with acquisitions in the Middle Kingdom.

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EE.UU.. Demandas contra las compañías chinas se enfrentan a obstáculos múltiples

Febrero 17, 2011 Por Deja tu comentario

(Reuters Legal) As more Chinese companies trade on U.S. stock exchanges, investors are increasingly suing them for securities fraud in U.S. tribunales — and slamming into a host of legal and bureaucratic barriers.

In theory, investors should be having an easier go of it. These Chinese entities, después de todo, agreed to abide by U.S. securities laws when they went public and gained access to U.S. financial markets. In practice, aunque, the companies have been able to hide behind a thicket of Chinese laws to avoid significant liability — in large part because evidence in these matters often resides in China, where basic litigation tasks such as gathering evidence are exceedingly difficult. Depositions by private parties are not even allowed in China, and it is nearly impossible to subpoena third-party witnesses there.

The vast majority of all civil securities-fraud suits end in settlement; but with all the impediments to pursuing claims against Chinese companies, los demandantes’ lawyers often don’t have much leverage, and as a result, cases either drag on or plaintiffs accept relatively small settlements.

To be sure, the hurdles in these cases aren’t exclusive to China — they frequently arise in civil litigation against companies based in non-Western countries with opaque legal systems. But China has emerged as a particularly tempting target. Twelve Chinese companies were sued in 2010, accounting for more than 40 percent of all shareholder suits filed against foreign companies listed on U.S. exchanges. That compares with 14 suits against Chinese companies in the prior three years combined, according to research by Stanford Law School and Cornerstone Research. The lawsuits allege that the companies misled shareholders by all sorts of underhanded means, from grossly inflating revenues reported in securities filings to reporting vastly different earnings to U.S. and Chinese regulatory authorities.

It’s too soon to say how the newest spate of litigation will play out, por supuesto, but if the earlier crop of lawsuits are any indication, shareholders could end up disappointed.

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Directors’ Duties Dominate Hong Kong Company Law Rewrite

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(Westlaw de negocios) Long awaited and much debated, Hong Kong’s Company Law rewrite has been completed and is set to take effect this year. Gazetted and introduced into the city’s Legislative Council last month, the new Companies Ordinance shines a tougher enforcement spotlight on directors’ duties, an area of corporate governance that has received much attention from Hong Kong lawmakers as of late. In tandem to scrutinizing company executives, the new law seeks to increase shareholder protection as well.

Aside from the new Companies Ordinance, the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing recently commenced a public consultation on corporate governance practices in the special administrative region, presumably with the intention of amending Hong Kong laws at some point. For more information on the HKEx public consultation, please see HKEx Sketches Corporate Governance Facelift.

In an effort to boost its reputation as an international financial hub, Hong Kong is tackling boardroom misconduct in public and private companies alike. Recently the Securities and Futures Commission made headlines when it hauled the chairman of a Hong Kong listed company, China Forestry, to court. Breach of fiduciary duty and other acts of misconducts are among the allegations. Reuters news sources have reported that the company itself is also being investigated for accounting irregularities. Presently the SFC has applied to freeze the chairman’s assets of up to HK$398 million (US$51 million).

Del mismo modo, Hong Kong based Man Sing Agricultural Holdings has battled legal woes arising from alleged director misconduct for years now, with no resolution in sight. Previously Man Shing disclosed that its chief executive officer had left the company after ‘not… fulfilling his duties as a director’ by refusing to receive phone calls and neglecting Man Shing’s operations. The dispute, which involves additional allegations of corporate governance wrongdoing and claims for damages, has been entangled in legal proceedings since 2007, a costly and lengthy tussle. Another SEC filer currently litigating its own staff is Biopack Environmental Solutions. The company’s Hong Kong subsidiary commenced a suit against the director of its Hong Kong entity for wrongdoing related breach of directors’ duties.

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Sobrevivientes de e-Discovery con el Departamento de la División Antimonopolio de Justicia – Ben Kerschberg – Ley & Tecnología – Forbes

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The Department of Justice ("DOJ") has aggressively requested the electronic production of corporate data over the past decade. The Antitrust Division is a perfect example, having experienced exponential growth in the amount of discovery and information that it receives in response to Second Requests. A su vez, the Division’s spending on electronic storage capacity has increased in order to accommodate a six-fold increase in necessary memory between 2003 y 2010 solo.

The Antitrust Division is also a part of an internal DOJ working group that addresses e-discovery issues in civil matters. Every civil section and its respective litigation support staff participates in the group in order to uncover and implement best practices. The working group is designed not just to provide internal guidance to DOJ staff attorneys responsible for negotiating Second Requests and Civil Investigative Demands (“CIDs”), but also, according to DOJ “to provide detailed guidance to law firms and their electronic production vendors about the optimal way to produce electronic data and documents to the Division . . . to ensure that parties can avoid producing data multiple times and that the production is in a format that [can] be reviewed promptly.”

DOJ understands that e-discovery guidelines must to a great extent be industry specific given that companies in similar industries tend to use and store electronic data in similar ways.  As DOJ gains expertise related to such industry usage and establishes a pattern of addressing issues common to different investigations in the same manner over time, the lives of outside counsel inevitably will become easier. The Antitrust Division now sends an Electronic Production Letter to counsel to address a variety of electronic production issues. This Letter should serve as a baseline of issues for counsel to address early in negotiations with the Division staff. Although the Letter is a reliable benchmark, the Division will in some cases deviate from it depending on necessities raised by specific issues in any given investigation.

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Viber Tops Skype VoIP con HD

Febrero 17, 2011 Por Deja tu comentario

El año pasado, Viber tenido un impacto justo como una alternativa de aplicaciones móviles para Skype VoIP. Con un nuevo socio tecnológico de a bordo, podría ahora estar a punto de ir estelar?

Voces que se alzan sobre IP

IP del servicio telefónico Skype ha tenido el campo más o menos a sí mismo en personal y SMB llamadas VoIP, con el móvil juega un papel creciente en el mercado. Mientras que las grandes empresas de telecomunicaciones tienen sus propias marcas de VoIP para empresas, el nombre y el conocimiento de Skype han visto dominar en los espacios más pequeños.

Ahora, sin embargo, aquí viene Viber y su nueva pareja, ESPÍRITU DSP, un proveedor de voz y vídeo sobre IP tecnología de los motores - de hecho, se atribuya a una gran cantidad de los servicios de la empresa de renombre. La pareja ha anunciado hoy que la voz TeamSpirit Engine Mobile es el motor de una nueva aplicación para iPhone Viber que ofrece un servicio gratuito de voz HD llamadas.

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What’s There to Hold On To? An Enlightened Approach to Data Preservation in the Era of the Legal Hold | Law.com

Febrero 14, 2011 Por Deja tu comentario

Data drives everything in today’s business world, and it would be hard to name a more important concern for today’s corporate arena than data preservation.

The growing urgency of this matter, until last year a novelty to most attorneys, touched off a flurry of rulings in the area of legal holds in 2010, with several major court decisions redrawing the map in what had been virtual terra incognita.

Beginning with the landmark Pension Committee decision by U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin in January 2010, the judiciary became hyper-focused on this area with opinion after opinion coming down for the rest of year. (Rimkus v. Cammarata, Crown Castle v. Nudd Corp, Merck Eprova v. Gnosis, Jones v. Bremen High School, and Victor Stanley II.)

Clearly corporate counsel can no longer function without developing the judgment to distinguish what must be preserved, the knowledge to negotiate and lucidly communicate the scope, and the skills and tools to select and instruct on reasonable and effective methods of preservation.

Implementing a reasonable, defensible legal hold need not be a complex or overwhelming task. The standard is not perfection, but reasonableness and good faith coupled with competency.

All too often, we see half-hearted attempts at data preservation undertaken with little understanding of an organization’s information resources. A generic hold directive dispatched en masse to custodians carries high risks. Many will ignore it as incomprehensible or dismiss it as impractical. Peor, it may trigger absurd Herculean preservation efforts crippling productivity and budgets.

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Scientists calculate total data stored to date: 295+ exabytes – Computer World

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Computer World – Humankind has stored more than 295 billion gigabytes (o 295 exabytes) of data since 1986, according to a new report based on research by scientists at the University of Southern California.

The scientists also concluded that 2002 should be considered the beginning of the digital age because it was the first year digital storage capacity overtook total analog capacity worldwide.

El estudio, published this week in the Science Express journal, stated that “if a single star is a bit of information, there’s a galaxy of information for every person in the world. But it’s still less than 1% of the information stored in all the DNA molecules of a human being.”

The study tracked some 60 analog and digital technologies from 1986 a 2007, calculating the amount of data stored, communicated and computed. En 2007, 2.9 X 10^20 optimally compressed bytes were stored, almost X 10^21 bytes were communicated and 6.4 x 10^18 instructions per second were run on general purpose computers.

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RIM ofrecerá cuatro modelos de BlackBerry PlayBook, Quizás Aplicaciones para Android|Tabletas Planeta

Febrero 14, 2011 Por Deja tu comentario

In a fresh press release just published RIM has announced how many and different models they will launch their BlackBerry PlayBook 7-inch tablet with. RIM will offer the playbook in a Wi-Fi only model,  a Wi-Fi + WiMAX model (for Sprint most likely), a Wi-Fi + LTE (for Verizon most likely) and a Wi-Fi + HSPA+ (for T-Mobile & A&T most likely).

The BlackBerry PlayBook will not only feature 4G support but also boost Bluetooth tethering, Mobile hotspots (MiFi) and BlackBerry Bridge support natively on all models.

As for some launch dates RIM states that the Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + WiMAX models will both be coming first during this present half of 2011 and the LTE and HSPA+ capable models will be launched in the second half of 2011. No firm official release dates have been vocalized by RIM yet.

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‘iPhone nano’ podría inundar el mercado de telefonía móvil; matar a los rivales | ZDNet

Febrero 14, 2011 Por Deja tu comentario

As Android remains at the top spot for the world’s most used mobile operating system, Apple are reportedly designing cheaper, smaller iPhone-like devices to compete with Google’s mobile software.

iPhones are expensive, but arguably proportionate in price for what they can do. Arguably, both the iPhone and the BlackBerry devices are ruling the marketshare at present for their ability to do practically anything.

As Apple Insider reports:

“The new smaller iPhone is expected to priced cheap enough to be offered by carriers for free with a smaller subsidy, or in the ballpark of $300 unlocked. Rather than being a dumbed down ‘feature phone,’ the smaller iPhone is said to simply be “significantly lighter,” with a smaller edge-to-edge touch screen.”

The ‘cheaper iPhone’ could be sold to carriers at half the existing price of the regular iPhone, meaning greater subsidies to the end consumer. It could in effect also be an emerging handset for those in less economically developed areas of the world.

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