Outsourcing Law & Business Journal™: June 2010
June 30, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
OUTSOURCING LAW & BUSINESS JOURNAL (™) : Strategies and rules for adding value and improving legal and regulation compliance through business process management techniques in strategic alliances, joint ventures, shared services and cost-effective, durable and flexible sourcing of services. www.outsourcing-law.com. [...]
Business Method Patents for Business Process Sourcing : Strategies for Hedging Your Bets when Strategies for Hedging Weather Futures are Unpatentable under U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski Decision
June 30, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
Business process outsourcing (BPO) has led many entrepreneurs and their investor cousins (sometimes called “patent trolls”) to seek patent protection for their business methods. The long-awaited decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappas, 561 U.S. ___ (June 28, 2010) was anticipated to lay down the groundwork for defining the parameters [...]
U.S. Discrimination against Foreign Call Centers: Sen. Schumer’s Personal Trade War
June 30, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
Call center operations can be conducted anywhere in the world without U.S. regulation, unless the activities involve regulated business services such as mortgage banking, consumer credit and lending, broker-dealer securities brokerage, life insurance sales and the regulated professions such as public accounting, the practice of law, engineering and architecture. The Democrats and the Obama [...]
Outsourcing Law & Business Journal™: May 2010
May 18, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
OUTSOURCING LAW & BUSINESS JOURNAL (™) : Strategies and rules for adding value and improving legal and regulation compliance through business process management techniques in strategic alliances, joint ventures, shared services and cost-effective, durable and flexible sourcing of services. www.outsourcing-law.com. Visit our blog at http://blog.outsourcing-law.com [...]
Online Form Builder for Consumer Privacy Notices
May 18, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
The privacy of consumer financial transactions was a cornerstone of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB). Eight U.S. federal regulators are responsible for enforcing the GLB privacy rule: the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Trade Commission, National Credit Union Administration, Office of the Comptroller of [...]
Financial Services Outsourcing: New Roles and Risks under a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
May 18, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
The financial services industry is facing major regulatory changes following the global sub-prime credit crisis and ensuing recovery plans. These changes will have a major impact on outsourcers that deal with consumer financial information or in back-office support for financial investment transactions that are deemed unfair, deceptive or abusive. The adoption of a [...]
Managing the New “Trade Secrecy” Risks in Global Sourcing: Criminal Theft, Criminal Negligence, Espionage, Bribery, Antitrust and Cross-Border Law Enforcement
April 30, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
Trade secrecy risks arise whenever an enterprise shares confidential business information with a supplier, service provider, joint venturer or customer. Trade secrecy protection measures should be planned and implemented through appropriate non-disclosure covenants by the third party and possibly even its employees and others in the value chain. Current trade secrecy are reflected in three [...]
Outsourcing Law & Business Journal™: April 2010
April 29, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
OUTSOURCING LAW & BUSINESS JOURNAL (™) : Strategies and rules for adding value and improving legal and regulation compliance through business process management techniques in strategic alliances, joint ventures, shared services and cost-effective, durable and flexible sourcing of services. www.outsourcing-law.com. Visit our blog at http://blog.outsourcing-law.com for commentary on current events.
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Trade Secrets
April 29, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
Chinese Criminal Law, Article 219, imposes criminal liability for improper conduct relating to “commercial secrets.” The Criminal Law has only a vague definition of “commercial secrets.” Conduct is criminally improper if one:
o Obtains a commercial secret by stealing, luring, coercion, bribery or other improper means,
o Uses or allows another to use a commercial secret obtained [...]
Outsourcing Law & Business Journal™: Feb/March 2010
March 20, 2010 by Bierce & Kenerson, P.C. ·
OUTSOURCING LAW & BUSINESS JOURNAL (™) : Strategies and rules for adding value and improving legal and regulation compliance through business process management techniques in strategic alliances, joint ventures, shared services and cost-effective, durable and flexible sourcing of services. www.outsourcing-law.com. Visit our blog at http://blog.outsourcing-law.com for commentary on current events.
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