Estate Planning

Inside Views: Indias Section 3(d) Conundrum
Editor's Note: This submission refers to the 2005 patent law in India, which amended India's 1970 patent law and implemented the 1994 World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)...

Organ transplant scam doctor arrested, deported
A doctor accused of organising illegal organ transplants in India has been deported following his arrest in Nepal. Amit Kumar was detained late on Thursday, accused of heading an illegal kidney transplant ring in Gurgaon, a wealthy suburb of New...

Organ donation, trasnplant discussed on NPR
Weekend Edition - Sunday had a very fine segment this morning on organ donation. Given what they were trying to do with this piece, there probably wasn't time to portray the personal impact of donating and receiving, convey some of the statistics about the various waiting lists, provide a brief overview of some of the evolving strategies for increasing organ yields, AND discuss some of the

Biotech industry to US Trade Rep - onerous biotech written description requirements warrant keeping India on the Priority Watch List
Posted to The India blogA biotech industry group has asked the United States Trade Representative to keep India on its Priority Watch List for 2008. Why? Onerous written description requirements for biotechnology-related inventions "pose unacceptable risks for patent applicants and would undermine the incentives of the patent system to promote innovation in biotechnological inventions...

India Takes No Action for American Child Abducted to India
A father has not seen his son for more than a year. The boy’s mother took the boy on a vacation to India. And never returned. India is not a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction...

The death row inmate as organ donor
In a recent issue of Good Magazine, Graeme Wood argues that we should explore the possibility of allowing death row prisoners to, essentially, die by organ donation: The real objection to the Mayan Protocol [death by organ donation] is aesthetic...

Trade Secrets
Former execs are hit with doctrine of inevitable disclosure.

Bank Scandal
Swiss bank pays Parmalat $30 million bankruptcy settlement.

Trade Secrets
Razorsight agreed to pay $4.5 million settlement in infringement lawsuit.

Newspaper Publisher
Star Tribune must pay St. Paul Pioneer Press a $3.8 million trade secrets act violations settlement.