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  • August 28, 2008

    Breaking the patent logjam

    ...with plans to hire yet another 1,200 examiners by the end of 2008. The examiners who deal with utility patents come mainly...design patents are drawn from the ranks of fine arts majors. The level of PTO internal...has been improved performance by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences... By Richard A. Epstein
  • January 15, 2009

    Schapiro pledges tougher SEC action

    ...faces one of the most difficult periods of its 75-year history. The agency has been...50bn “Ponzi“ scheme in spite of credible information apparently brought...corners, cheat investors and break the law,“ said Ms Schapiro, chief executive of the Financial Regulatory Authority...exploring the idea of having resident examiners inside credit rating agencies, she said...influence the composition of a corporate board, Ms Schapiro said: “The devil will... By Joanna Chung in New York
  • June 24, 2009

    A bitter dividend

    ...everyone from fellow country club and charity board members to dozens of supposedly sophisticated funds of hedge...investment falls over," says Jan Putnis of Slaughter & May, a law firm. Instead of simply accepting a generic form or contract... By Joanna Chung, Scheherazade Daneshkhu, Brooke Masters, Tom Mitchell and Nikki Tait
  • July 8, 2008

    Full text of Bernanke speech

    ...bank to facilitate an orderly liquidation of the firm. A bridge bank authority is an...hazard and mitigating any adverse impact of government intervention on market discipline. The FDICIA law also requires that failing banks be resolved...Treasury, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Board, and the President agree that following...rules for the prompt and orderly resolution of securities firms is not straightforward... By
  • July 22, 2006

    Baccalaureate faces its own test

    ...legal and education systems, the rest of the world seems remarkably keen to adopt...up by clever British jurists at the end of the second world war but was not incorporated into British law until 1998. Winston Churchill called for the integration of Europe but never envisaged that Britain...international examinations is the US College Board, which offers the Advanced Placement Programme... By Jon Boone
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