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In keeping with its traditional representation of fashion and luxury goods companies, Pavia & Harcourt has recently been involved in several high-profile acquisitions in the fashion industry. In the past few months the firm assisted Valentino Group S.p.a.’s in its acquisition of a stake in Proenza Schouler LLC, and Aeffe S.p.a. in the sale to Liz Clairborne, Inc. of its stake in Narciso Rodriguez (The Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2007).
The Act, if passed into law, would ultimately permit investor’s divestment from companies and financial institutions with at least $20,000,000.00 invested in Iran's energy or credit sectors. Multiple investments in such companies by single investors or by subsidiaries and other affiliates may be aggregated for purposes of the $20,000,000.00 threshold.
Electronic File Retention: Preparing For Preservation and Compulsory Retrieval
Steven Skulnik and Alessandro Saracino
On June 15, 2002, the lead news item was that a Texas federal jury found Arthur Andersen guilty of obstructing justice when it destroyed Enron Corp. documents while on notice of a federal investigation. While it is rare that company officials can be proved to have acted with criminal intent when following the company's document retention policy, there have long been legal rules that apply to records retention and records production in judicial proceedings and failure to comply with these rules can lead to significant penalties.
Questo articolo desidera esporre e spiegare alcuni principi del diritto della Proprietà Intellettuale statunitense che permettono di proteggere dai tentativi, più o meno legali, dei concorrenti di copiare la configurazione innovativa di un prodotto o del suo contenitore. Trade Dress e Design Patent …
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