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Supreme Court Rules Narrowly In Bilski; Business Method & Software Patents Survive | Techdirt

Hunyo 28, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng Mag-iwan ng isang Puna

As I expected it appears that the Supreme Court has ruled somewhat narrowly in the Bilski case (pdf), which many had hoped would end the scourge of business method and software patents. Instead, the court effectively punted the issue. Technically it affirmed the overall decision from the Federal Circuit that Bilski’s specific patent was invalid for being way too broad, but much more importantly for everyone else, it rolled back the Federal Circuit’s “machine-or-transformation” pagsubok, which many believed effectively ruled out pure software patents. Instead, the court said that the courts “should not read into the patent laws limitations and condi-tions which the legislature has not expressed.” Sa ibang salita, business method and software patents survive.

I’m sure there will be much more analysis of this decision going forward, but on a first pass, despite “affirming” the Federal Circuit ruling, this one looks like a big win for supporters of business method and software patents. Talaga, the court just said it would rule on this particular patent and not make any real statements on the overall patentability of business methods or software. Kaya, in effect, it’s no real change on how the patent system works.

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Ang National Diskarte para sa Trusted pagkakakilanlan sa Cyberspace | Ang White House

Hunyo 28, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng Mag-iwan ng isang Puna

Cyberspace has become an indispensible component of everyday life for all Americans.  We have all witnessed how the application and use of this technology has increased exponentially over the years. Cyberspace includes the networks in our homes, negosyo, schools, and our Nation’s critical infrastructure.  It is where we exchange information, buy and sell products and services, and enable many other types of transactions across a wide range of sectors. But not all components of this technology have kept up with the pace of growth.  Privacy and security require greater emphasis moving forward; and because of this, the technology that has brought many benefits to our society and has empowered us to do so much — has also empowered those who are driven to cause harm.

Ngayon, I am pleased to announce the latest step in moving our Nation forward in securing our cyberspace with the release of the draft National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).  This first draft of NSTIC was developed in collaboration with key government agencies, business leaders and privacy advocates. What has emerged is a blueprint to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve online privacy protections through the use of trusted digital identities.

The NSTIC, which is in response to one of the near term action items in the President’s Cyberspace Policy Review, calls for the creation of an online environment, or an Identity Ecosystem as we refer to it in the strategy, where individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with confidence, trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure that the transaction runs on. For example, no longer should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially insecure list of usernames and passwords to login into various online services. Through the strategy we seek to enable a future where individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and privacy-enhancing credential (e.g., a smart identity card, a digital certificate on their cell phone, atbp) from a variety of service providers – both public and private – to authenticate themselves online for different types of transactions (e.g., online banking, accessing electronic health records, sending email, at iba pa). Another key concept in the strategy is that the Identity Ecosystem is user-centric – that means you, as a user, will be able to have more control of the private information you use to authenticate yourself on-line, and generally will not have to reveal more than is necessary to do so.

sa pamamagitan Ang National Diskarte para sa Trusted pagkakakilanlan sa Cyberspace | Ang White House.

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Sec Puna Watch: Accounting Exam BofA

Hunyo 28, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng Mag-iwan ng isang Puna

The specter of TARP and troublesome economic times are still haunting Bank of America. In a recently released SEC staff comment letter, several items within the financial institution’s annual financial statements for 2008 were questioned by the SEC.

The staff was particularly keen on seeing an explanation regarding computation of the carrying value of the company’s reporting units. Of particular interest were the impairment tests to goodwill. The staff requested details of the testing, as no impairment to goodwill was recorded. Bank of America’s initial response to this comment was still inadequate for the SEC, as they followed up asking for additional details concerning the bank’s goodwill impairment testing.

Another area of SEC concern was the valuation of the TARP securities. The staff had requested additional information concerning the value of the preferred stock and warrants issued to the Treasury Department. Bank of America’s response spurred even more comments from the staff, probing deeper into the methodology of the company’s fair value determination.

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Minimizing ang Legal na panganib ng Paggamit Online Social Network | Law.com

Hunyo 28, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng Mag-iwan ng isang Puna

The explosion of online social networking shows little sign of slowing. Halimbawa, Facebook (as accessed on June 15, 2010) reports that it alone has more than 400 million active users, 50 percent of whom log onto the site on any given day. Facebook states that its average user has 130 online “mga kaibigan,” and that such a user creates 70 pieces of content (Web links, news stories, blog posts, mga tala, litrato, at iba pa) each month. And the use of such resources is not tethered to a desktop PC: Facebook relates that more than 100 million active users currently access the system through their mobile devices.

Such remarkable growth brings challenges for the operators of social networking sites. The news media is replete with reports of alleged transgressions, most notably in the context of issues regarding the privacy rights of users. But what about the potential legal liabilities of the hundreds of millions of individuals and entities that post content and otherwise contribute to social networking sites? As was the case in the early days of e-mail, the inherent informality of the medium may cause some to believe that there is greater latitude to say or do things than in more formal contexts, but that is a trap. The reality is that those who join social networking sites and disseminate information and materials run the risk of being held responsible to others as a “publisher” and for a broad range of claims based on traditional legal principles.

This article provides a brief checklist of some of the salient legal issues that those who use social networking sites must consider, with the goal of increasing familiarity with and sensitivity to these issues so that preventive steps can be taken before a problem develops. Although this article focuses on U.S. batas, the global reach of the Internet (Facebook reports that about 70 percent of its users are outside the United States) means that the laws of many jurisdictions may potentially apply, kung saan, bukod sa iba pang mga bagay-bagay, may not be as protective of certain relevant rights as our laws are, and may not provide the liability defenses and privileges that our laws do.

sa pamamagitan Law.com – Minimizing ang Legal na panganib ng Paggamit Online Social Network.

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Sigurado parusa sa E-Discovery matigas Sapat? | Law.com

Hunyo 28, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng 1 Paano

Parusa ay marahil ang pinaka-nagwawasak parusa hukom ng isang ay maaaring magpataw sa isang party sa sibil litigasyon. Sa mga alitan sa paglipas ng electronic na katibayan sa paglilitis, parusa ay nakabuo ng isang pulutong ng pansin, kahit na ilang mga hukom sabihin ay overstated ang epekto ng. “Gusto kong tumuwid ang ideya na ang mga hukom ay maglalabas ng isang pulutong ng mga parusa,” sabi ni Shira Scheindlin, Estados Unidos ng Distrito Judge para sa Southern District ng New York, na kamakailan-lamang na inisyu sa kanyang unang e-pagtuklas parusa dahil 2004. “Sa anim na taon Binigyan ko walang parusa. Kahit na ang bilang ng mga parusa ay pagpunta up, sa mga tuntunin ng raw numero, ito ay pa rin masyadong maliit.”

Abogado sa paunawa mula sa mga korte na ang mga nanggigitata dokumento pagpapanatili patakaran at mga pagkakamali ay maaaring humantong sa mga parusa at iba pang mga parusa. Ngunit mga parusa tila na may maliit na epekto sa patulak ang legal na komunidad sa e-pagtuklas mas seryoso. Sa katunayan, parusa ay maaaring aktwal na maging isang hindi epektibo tool para sa hukuman upang itulak ang mga abogado upang pamahalaan ang e-pagtuklas mas mabisa.

Sa isang kamakailan-lamang na namumuno, Ang Pension Committee ng Montreal v. Banc ng Amerika Securites, Judge Scheindlin Nagbigay ang mga parusa dahil ang mga partido ay nagpapabaya sa kanilang mga tungkulin upang mapanatili ang katibayan. Siya sabi ni siya ay bigo upang mahanap na ang mga partido sa kaso na tila hindi na natutunan sa maayos na pangasiwaan ang elektronikong nakaimbak na impormasyon mula noong huling niya Nagbigay ang parusa ng e-pagtuklas sa isang malawak na nabanggit na desisyon sa anim na taon na ang nakaraan. “Ako ay nagulat na kaya maraming mga taon mamaya hindi sapat ay nagbago,” sabi ni Scheindlin. “Mga abogado ay dapat sa paunawa na ang kanilang mga kliyente ay may isang tungkulin upang mapanatili.”

Ayon sa law firm Gibson Dunn 2009 Mid-Taon Update sa mga kaso ng E-Discovery, ang bilang ng mga e-pagtuklas parusa ay Pagpapauso paitaas. Pagtilingin 61 iniulat ng mga electronic opinyon pagtuklas, higit sa kalahati kasangkot ang pagsasaalang-alang ng parusa,at sa dalawampu't-dalawang korte ay ipapataw ilang form ng kapahintulutan. Ang isang katulad 2008 survey na isinasagawa sa pamamagitan ng e-pagtuklas vendor Kroll Ontrack natagpuan kalahati na bilang ng mga parusa.

Ngunit ang e-pagtuklas analyst Barry Murphy ng Murphy Insights tala na ang ilang mga parusa para sa e-pagtuklas ay nagkaroon ng anumang tunay na ngipin, at ang ilang mga na kasangkot malaking mounts dollar ay overturned. Sa ilang mga kaso, mga pagtuklas snafus ng e-humantong sa negatibong mga inferences na halos tiyak na epekto ang kinalabasan, pero sabi niya kahit mga rulings mukhang may maliit na epekto. “Ang parusa ay nakikita namin ay masyadong maliit upang magrehistro sa maraming tao, at habang ang mga negatibong mga inferences maaaring humantong sa isang masamang kinalabasan, epekto ng ay hindi palaging halata,” sabi ni Murphy. “Kapag namin makita ang isang kapahintulutan para sa maraming mga milyon-milyong dolyar dahil sa isang kabiguan upang mapanatili ang electronic ebidensiya, point ay maging mas malinaw.”

Marahil ang pinakamalaking multa na may kaugnayan sa e-pagtuklas pagkabigo ay Coleman (Magulang) Holdings, Inc. sa. Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., No.CA03-5045 (15ika Jud. Cir., Palm Beach Cty., Fla.), rev'd sa iba pang mga lugar, Sa. 4D05-2606 (FLA. Dist. Ct. App. Dagat. 21, 2007), sa kung saan ang isang award ng $1.45 bilyon at isang $15 milyong pinong ay inisyu matapos Nabigo ang Morgan Stanley upang makagawa ng mga elektronikong talaan. Gayunman, ito potensyal na nagwawasak kinalabasan ay baligtad; blunting kung ano ang nais na kung hindi man ng Wake-up call to sa propesyon.

Murphy ng nabanggit sa kanyang blog na ang halos lahat ng parusa para sa mga pagkabigo sa pagtuklas ng e-tumakbo mula sa ilang libong sa daan-daang libong dolyar. Ito ay maaaring ang isang pulutong ng pera sa ilang mga contexts, ngunit sabi niya ay hindi sapat na liwanag ang isang apoy sa ilalim ng karamihan sa mga corporate legal na kagawaran. “Ang mga parusa na ito ay hindi sapat upang matakot ang sinuman sa pagpapatupad ng bagong patakaran sa pagpapanatili ng dokumento na ang mga milyon-milyong ng gastos ng mga dolyar upang ilagay sa lugar,” sabi niya.

E-pagtuklas vendor magtaltalan na ang mga panganib ng mga parusa at negatibong rulings mga warrants investment sa bagong teknolohiya para sa tamang koleksyon, pangangalaga, suriin, at produksyon ng ESI. Ngunit propesyon ay tila lumalaban sa ideya na ang mga panganib ng mga parusa ay sapat na upang pilitin ang mga ito sa magpatibay bagong pamamaraan sa pagtuklas. “Mukhang may isang pulutong ng mga abogado na sadya mahirap pagdating sa produksyon,” sabi ni Christine Musil, direktor ng pagmemerkado sa e-pagtuklas software vendor kaalaman Graphics. “Tila sila ay hindi masyadong nababahala tungkol sa parusa.”

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SFL Data Napiling ng Oracle bilang Eksklusibo Provider ng Electronic Pagtuklas ng Serbisyo – MarketWatch

Hunyo 28, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng Mag-iwan ng isang Puna

SFL Data, a leading electronic discovery solutions provider for corporations, government agencies and law firms, has entered into an agreement to serve as the exclusive provider of managed e-discovery services for new matters for Oracle Corporation (ORCL 22.66, +0.44, +1.98%) .

“We selected SFL Data’s managed e-discovery services model because it gives us greater clarity into the e-discovery process and drives efficiency without significant internal investments,” said Oracle Director of e-Discovery Pallab Chakraborty. “Using this model also enables us to more accurately predict expenses than we could previously.”

SFL Data uses a consultative, metrics-driven approach to help its clients control costs, improve processes and reduce risk. As part of its agreement with Oracle, SFL Data will utilize both web-based and proprietary processes and provide a variety of services, including case set-up, planning and training on customized review platforms.

“We believe our contract with Oracle represents the future of e-discovery,” said SFL Data CEO Christian Lawrence. “Corporations rely on e-discovery service providers like SFL Data because we can provide repeatable, efficient and defensible processes for data management, generally at a lower cost than can internal corporate legal or IT departments. Sa maraming mga kaso, we’ve lowered e-discovery costs for our clients by more than 30 percent.”

sa pamamagitan SFL Data Napiling ng Oracle bilang Eksklusibo Provider ng Electronic Pagtuklas ng Serbisyo – MarketWatch.

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Ngayon Sinusuportahan ng Google Docs Viewer Microsoft File Word

Hunyo 28, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng Mag-iwan ng isang Puna

We’re out of catchy ways to talk about new Google tools that work to keep you from going Microsoft, so this time we’ll just come out and say it: The Google Docs Viewer now displays Microsoft Word attachments in your browser.

Let’s say someone sends a message to your Gmail account with a Microsoft Word document attached.

Now you don’t have to download, save, and open in Microsoft Word to view it. Sa ibang salita, you don’t need Microsoft Word. At all.

As you’re viewing the document in your browser, you can also edit it.

The Google Docs viewer also allows users to view .pdf, .ppt, .docx and .tiff files in your browser, all you have to do is click the “Tingnan” link.

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Legal Project Management Moves In-House | Legal Intelligencer

Hunyo 25, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng Mag-iwan ng isang Puna

The message to general counsel and chief legal officers from their CEOs and CFOs could hardly be clearer: “Get the costs of your legal department under control or face the consequences. In the last decade, general corporate operating expenses have gone up about 20 percent, but overall legal costs have gone up 75 percent, far outpacing inflation. Our business got beaten up big time by the recession; time for you to share the pain and share the accountability.”

Henceforth, the memo goes, you must manage the legal function as proactively and efficiently as the company manages every other business unit — perhaps even more so, since the legal department is, sa wakas, a cost center and not a profit generator for the company. Oo, you have more on your plate these days with increasing legal and regulatory demands, but it’s time to do more with less.

Skip the excuses and rationalizations; it’s time for lean-and-mean budgets, aggressive cost management and clear standards for demonstrating the value you provide the company. Oo, quality legal service matters, but tightening the screws on legal costs matters more. Your bonus — and perhaps even your job — depends on your ability to reduce your total legal spend.

The issue of increasing costs certainly is not a new one for general counsel. In surveys for the last five years, GCs have consistently identified the need to control costs as one of their top concerns and most important priorities. Hanggang 2008, bagaman, that concern rarely translated into significant changes in many legal departments. Pagkatapos, when the economy tanked, they had to at least appear to tighten their belts.

For many senior in-house counsel, this was a rude awakening. Like beleaguered law firms, they took some painful emergency short-term action steps that often translated into cutting some staff lawyers, fewer employees (or FTEs) and fewer trips to conferences. Ang resulta, gayunman, was not doing more with less. It really was doing the “same with less,” and even that heavily stressed the legal department.

Long term, they prayed for a return to the status quo ante. Many still hope to continue to enjoy “black box budgets.” (“Just give us what you gave us last year, plus 20 percent.”) Many claim that cost predictability is impossible in an “uncertain legal environment.” Others believe that no solid metrics exist for measuring the value of lawyers’ experience and expertise.

Wiser heads embrace Stephen Covey’s famous quote: “If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.” Savvy CLOs realize that the upside of the pressure to control costs put on them by their own management is the increased leverage it gives them in their relationships with outside counsel. They no longer can afford to buckle under to steep annual hikes in law firm billing rates; they no longer can allow law firms to pass all expenses and inefficiencies through to the client. They must learn to wield the whip hand, a skill alien or uncomfortable for many of them.

This shift in the law firm-client balance of power has left some general counsel a little bewildered. “I feel like the dog that, after years of chasing the fire engine, finally caught it,” said one. “Now I have to figure out what to do with it.”

Through convergence programs, RFPs and value-based alternative fee arrangements (AFAs), many general counsel are significantly altering the balance of power between client and law firm. Among law firms that understand the implications of this sea change, there has been a rush to embrace legal project management (LPM) as a discipline to manage legal tasks efficiently, consistently and predictably –and deliver on the promises they are making to clients in their AFAs.

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Amerika. Pamahalaan ng FCPA Probe ng Weatherford expand

Hunyo 25, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng Mag-iwan ng isang Puna

Ang probe Ang pederal na pamahalaan sa pakikitungo sa mga banyagang bansa ng Weatherford International Ltd ay burgeoned kalayo lampas isang simpleng tanong suhol sa pamamagitan ng ang mga mahalagang papel at Exchange Commission. Ito ngayon ay isang multi-ahensiya sibil at kriminal na pagsisiyasat sa mga paratang na Weatherford ang negosyo sa mga terorista-friendly na mga bansa na sa ilalim ng US. trade parusa.

Weatherford ay isa sa mga pinakamalaking sa mundo oilfield serbisyo ng kumpanya, operating sa mahigit 100 bansa.

Sa isang pangkaraniwang patabingiin sa ang kuwento ng nakaraang taon, Weatherford general counsel Burt Martin umalis sa kanyang trabaho sa kalagitnaan ng-probe, at ang kumpanya ay nagpasya na ilipat ang kanyang punong-himpilan mula sa Houston sa Geneva, Switzerland. Ito pa rin ay may U.S. operasyon sa Houston.

Ang kumpanya ay conceded sa nito sa 10-Q pinansiyal na ulat sa sec sa Mayo 3 na ang pederal na pagtatanong na nagsimula sa 2006 ngayon lumago upang isama ang Department of Justice, ang Department of Commerce ng Kawanihan ng Industriya & Katiwasayan, at ang US. Treasury Office of Foreign Asset ng Control. Ang huli dalawang ahensya pangasiwaan usapin ng pambansang seguridad.

Ang ulat ay sinabi ang feds ay naghahanap sa mga paratang sa tatlong fronts. Isama sila Weatherford pakikilahok sa ang iskandalo-plagued Oil-para-Food program, ang posibleng maling paggamit ng $175,000 sa isang European subsidiary para sa mga di-umano'y na mga bribes lumalabag ng Dayuhang sira Kasanayan kumilos, at ang mga benta ng mga serbisyo at produkto “sa ilang mga sanctioned bansa.”

Binanggit ito partikular Cuba, Iran, Sudan, at Syria - apat na mga bansa sa ilalim ng U.S. parusa dahil sa kanilang suporta ng terorismo at / o mga paglabag ng mga karapatang pantao.

Ang kumpanya ay sinabi ito ay cooperating sa ang multi-faceted probe. Ang ulat ay nagsabi na ito ay natamo $53 milyon sa mga gastos na may kaugnayan sa exit mula sa mga sanctioned bansa at natamo $108 milyon para sa legal na at propesyonal na mga bayad sa koneksyon sa patuloy na pagsisiyasat.

sa pamamagitan Amerika. Pamahalaan ng FCPA Probe ng Weatherford expand.

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ECA saloobin mula sa Legal Tech «SFLegal

Hunyo 24, 2010 Sa pamamagitan ng Mag-iwan ng isang Puna

In what might be one of the most unfortunate booth placements in recent memory, Nuix was directly across from Clearwell at Legal Tech LA this week. Every time I walked by, the Nuix team was handling a crowd that was oftentimes two or three people deep.

We first looked at Nuix a year or so ago, and while it was powerful and fast, the interface left a great deal to be desired in terms of general “friendliness.” The new interface is much better, but I’d still have a hard time turning attorneys loose on it. Sa puntong ito, Clearwell owns the advantage in user friendliness, while Nuix (according to their numbers) appears to have the advantage in ingestion and indexing speed.

What will happen next? We may be looking at the next Concordance/Summation situation. It’s likely to be Nuix and Clearwell wrestling for the early case assessment (Dalubhasa) higher ground. Whether IPRO and LexisNexis are in an ideal position — or are simply too late — to leapfrog Nuix and Clearwell remains a mystery for now.

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