“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By: Ainsley Brown The French cosmetics giant, L’Orèal is suing eBay alleging that eBay is putting its customers at risk by failing to adequately address the sale of fake products on its website. The case opened in High Court this Monday in London. According to L’Orèal its issues with eBay stem from the sale of counterfeit products, parallel imports, unboxed
By: Ainsley Brown For a $6, 000 flat rate companies and individuals that agree can now have their disputes resolved within a 2 and half month – now that is both cheap and speedy. The new services launched by ADR Chambers Inc. looks to resolve business disputes an expeditious and cost-effective manner. By agreeing to an expedited arbitration process disputants
By: Stephane Apitha In most jurisdictions, the legislators have laws to restrain the problem of money laundering. In addition to that nowadays most Off Shore Management companies “OMC’s” are equipped to carry out compliance checks. In order to understand what money is laundering we have to look at the definition of same; however, as at date there is no definition
By: Ainsley Brown On May 19, 2008 a British Colombian woman had a near fatal allergic reaction after she ate a Starbucks Peach Parfait. Knowing of her nut allergy she carefully read the listed ingredients checking for nuts – no nuts were listed. Not satisfied with that she then asked a Starbucks employee and was reassured that the item was
By: Ainsley Brown This is a follow up to: More Human Rights Cases Being Brought by Companies. The former shareholders of Northern Rock, principally lead by the hedge funds SRM Global and RAB Capital, have failed in their attempt to use human rights law in their case against the UK government – HM Revenue & Customs and the Bank of
By: Ainsley Brown The world’s second largest drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline has proposed a voluntary patent pool for drug makers. The pool is intended to kick start the development of new treatments for neglected diseases such as malaria and cholera. By proposing and making its own patents available to third party researchers, Glaxo will be providing opportunities, “that might otherwise not
By Ainsley Brown President Obama is going to make his first foreign trip today. And where is he going? To his northern neighbor – CANADA. Welcome to Canada President Obama! The visit as short as it is, only six hours, is an official state visit – put simply he is meeting with the Governor General not just the Prime Minister
By: Ainsley Brown If you didn’t know already Canadians take their beer very seriously. And I don’t just mean on the consumption side. Brewing in Canada is a very serious business indeed. This is where the story of Dead Frog Brewery and Sleeman Breweries Ltd. comes in. It is a litigation story of David vs. Goliath, where David might just lose
By: Ainsley Brown Will Buy American achieve its stated goals, and that is to stimulate the American economy through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act? Ask a Canadian? Oh that’s me. The latest reports indicate that the Buy American clause in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is currently under review. It may even be dropped from the bill. Ask
By: Ainsley Brown The US Senate has passed its version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill – very good news – as the President comtinuses to use the bully pulpit to sell the stimulus package to the American people. Now begins the tough negotiations to reconcile the Senate and the House of Representatives versions of the Bill. Related Posts:‘Buy