Sughrue Mion to Present Forum Highlighting New E-Discovery Rules at Pan European IP Summit in Brussels.
Firm Will Highlight How U.S. Rule Changes Affect IP Litigation WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As intellectual property protection and high-profile patent cases continue to make headlines around the world, government and corporate leaders are looking for ways to improve and standardize systems to avoid some of...

Not so privileged: a federal judge's ruling is bad news for the media.
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom ... of the press." The First Amendment looks absolute. Many journalists in the United States believe that it gives them the right to protect the confidentiality of their sources, no matter what. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

GIFTS Software's AML Compliance Solution Chosen by Provident Bank & Trust of Belize and Philippine National Bank.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- GIFTS Software, a leading provider of anti-money laundering, funds transfer, and e-banking solutions, announced today that Provident Bank & Trust of Belize Limited and Philippine National Bank (PNB) have both selected the GIFTSWEB EDD Anti-Money Laundering solution. PNB has selected the...

Taking the fifth: when journalists threaten our right to remain silent.
DECEMBER 2004 MAY go down in history as the month it suddenly became fashionable to threaten and even punish American reporters with jail. You could make a plausible case that over just three days, December 8-10, there was more serious judge-on-journalist action than in the three decades prior to...

The strange case of Steve Kurtz: Critical Art Ensemble and the price of freedom.
On the morning of May 11, 2004 Steve Kurtz, an Associate Professor of Art at the University at Buffalo (UB) and cofounder of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), awoke in his Buffalo, New York home to discover that Hope Kurtz, his wife of 27 years and one of the original...

Air Cargo News.
For more air cargo news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jul 17, 2006 China and Japan reached an air services agreement yesterday that provides for a 20% increase in the number of passenger flights between the countries and a doubling of cargo services, Reuters reported....

Smith & Nephew responds to US government's subpoena.
Smith & Nephew plc, UK, said it discovered that an independent orthopaedic sales representative under contract to the company may have acted against the company's own policies, thereby leaving the company open to investigation by the US Department of Justice. Several orthopaedics companies, including Smith & Nephew,...

Telsasoft, a Telecommunications Service Assurance Software Company Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Received Order for a Set of CDMA CDR (Call Detail Record) Reports From a Regional CDMA Network Service Operator.
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Telsasoft today announced that MTA Wireless of Wasilla, Alaska, has deployed a set of CDMA CDR (Call Detail Record) reports to complement their next generation integrated OSS network management solution also purchased from Telsasoft for their CDMA2000 1x network infrastructure. Responding to...

Administration resents "swift" kick: after the press reported that a secret operation following the money trails to terrorists was including financial dealings of innocent citizens, the neo-conservatives lashed back.
On June 23, Vice President Dick Cheney harshly criticized the nation's news media for disclosing information about the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift. According to the disclosure appearing in the New York Times for June 24: "The program [Swift], run out of the Central Intelligence Agency...

Banco de la Nacion Argentina New York Selects GIFTS Software's Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Solution.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- GIFTS Software, a leading provider of anti-money laundering, funds transfer, and e-banking solutions, announced today that Banco de la Nacion Argentina, New York has selected its GIFTSWEB EDD Anti-Money Laundering solution. The implementation of the GIFTSWEB EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) solution...