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Articles in February, 2003 issue of Mondaq Business Briefing

• SEC Adopts Final Rules Requiring Disclosure of Audit Committee Financial Experts Pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  by Edward S. Best
• Supreme Court Clarifies Patent Doctrine of Sound Predictions.
• IT/eCommerce Update
• CMS Issues Final (Final) Provider-Based Rules: And Why is This So Important Again?
  by Barry Alexander
• Implemented in Italy the European Directive 94/45/CE Regarding the European Works Council.
• Misstatement in Prosecution? No Matter; Silence During Standard-Setting? That's OK, Too!
• Berlex' Patent Claims Do Not Cover Biogen's Drug for MS.
• JSM Awarded Hong Kong Law Firm of the Year for Three Consecutive Years
• Intellectual Property Legal Alert
• Securities Legal Alert
• Taxing Phantom Income: The Argentine Tax Authority Says No To Inflation Adjustments.
• Fame and Actual Confusion Are Not Prerequisites to Proving a Likelihood of Confusion Under the Lanham Act
• USA Patriot Act Legal Alert: Treasury Issues Proposed Rule for Mutual Fund SAR Reporting.
• Circuit Court Rejects Reasonable Expectations Test.
• Patent Federal Circuit Update.
• SEC Proposes Significant Compliance Obligations for Investment Advisers.
  by Susan Krawczyk
• OIG Declines To Offer Protection From Prosecution To Physician Group Practice
• The War for the Allopathic Medicament Market in Mexico
  by Oscar Gonzalez
• Federal Trade Commission Revamps Premerger Investigation Procedures.
• The SEC[acute accent]s Recent Enforcement Actions Under Regulation FD.
• Life Tax Proposals - Response To IR Consultation
• Recent Amendments To Corporate Taxation Law.
• Mutual Funds: Cayman's Remarkable Success.
• No Infringement When Filing FDA Application for Generic Drug for Non-Patented Use.
• Failure to Instruct on Interest Calculation an "Appellate Lapse".
• Employee Benefits Legal Alert
• Round-up of Employment Law Developments: January/February 2003
• German Federal Supreme Court: Patent Protection for Computer Programs and Their Storage Media.
• Aviation Insurance: Acts Of Terrorism
  by Nicholas Hughes
• Only Prior Art from a Completed Proceeding Is Prohibited from Being Relied Upon in Subsequent Reexams.
  by Kenneth Cage
• Audit Committee Financial Experts and Code of Ethics.
• DataContent Launches its Knowledge Management Capability.
• Employment, Pensions And Benefits.
• Enforcement Policy And Legislative Developments - Reporting Period: October 02 - December 02.
• Proposed Tax Regulations To Clarify Capitalization vs. Deduction Issue.
  by Alan Van Dyke
• Competition provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002.
• Environmental, Health & Safety Developments: Proposed Rule on Routine Maintenance, Repair, and Replacement.
• BLG China Aerospace Briefing
• Ukraine Joins International Convention On Maritime Liens And Mortgages.
• Action Against One Fraudster Should Not Prevent Action Against Another
• Singapore's IP Academy Officially Opened
• Buying Assets From A Distressed Company Or Debtor In Bankruptcy.
• Labor Law.
• Financial Services News
• Railtrack "Ransom Strip" Payment Appeal Defeated By Guinness.
• International Licensing: A Guide to Entering the Foreign Marketplace
• Drastic Reforms on Employment and Labor Law in Italy.
• Supreme Court Saves The Mouse
• Limited Liability Companies And The New Brazilian Civil Code.
  by Walter Douglas Stuber
• Who's On First?
  by Robert Malcolmson
• Negotiating The Best Contractual Deal.
  by Joseph Cosentino
• Recent Pronouncements on Interest Deductibility and Funds Borrowed to Acquire Common Shares
  by Mitchell Sherman
• Federal Circuit Rules on Enablement and Written Description in Two Biotech Cases
  by Paul Devinsky
• Client Advisory: SEC Adopts Rule on Standards of Professional Conduct for Attorneys.
• Aircraft Leasing: Commercial Court Decisions
• Inland Revenue Consultation Paper on Pensions.
• Electronic Contracts and the New Civil Code.
• Environmental Liability Disclosure Standards.
  by Jeffrey Karp
• EPA[acute accent]s Water Quality Trading Policy: States Take Center Stage.
  by Brent A. Fewell
• Physician Wins $30 Million In Slander Lawsuit.
• V&E Filing Amicus Curiae Brief On Behalf Of Clients In Negligent Credentialing Case.
• DOL Publishes Final Regulations on Advance Notice of Plan Blackout Periods.
• FCC To Increase Flow Of Wireless Spectrum - New Block is Likely to Cost Less Than Old Ones and Attract New Money to the Mobile Communications Industry
• European Labour Law Bulletin
• Technology Companies Need to Manage Net Operating Losses (NOLs).
  by Taci Darnell
• To Reaffirm Or Not To Reaffirm: Much Ado About Nothing Or The Tempest?
• More Enron Fallout -- Unsuspecting Utilities Could be Adversely Affected.
• Enough Is Enough: Federal Circuit Sanctions Frivolous Arguments.
  by Matthew F. Weil
• Tendering: A Contractor's Rights and Obligations with Respect to Subcontractor Bids.
  by Kenneth Crofoot
• Bill C-23 Receives Royal Assent
• Donnini: The OSC Sends a Message on Insider Trading
• Ontario Government Proposes Significant Amendments to the Securities Act (Ontario).
  by Shevaun McGrath
• Proposed Reforms to Ontario Securities Laws.
  by Dennis Lopes
• Eldred V. Ashcroft
• Competition Comment.
• Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court.
• Douglases and OK! v Hello.
• The Higgs Report
• Pensions Update: The 2002 Green Paper
• Accelerated Filing Deadlines for Quarterly and Annual Reports and Disclosure Concerning Website Access to Reports

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