Department of City Planning general counsel David Karnovsky will be looking forward to a new career at top law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson after working in the city government in the last 15 years.
A growing number of big-named investors and firms are not liking the the aggressiveness of patent assertion entity, or patent trolls, to collect licensing fees for inventions that are utterly nonsensical.
Prosecutors at the trial against Gerhard Gribkowsky and six other executives of Bayerische Landesbank said that the charges brought against them is the first to try members of a company management for overpayment in an acquisition deal.
A year ago, President Barack Obama signed an executive order after two failed efforts by Congress to shield U.S. computers from cyber attacks. Cybersecurity is defined as "the body of technologies, process and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access." One year later, experts have said there is little to show from those proposal and legislative efforts.
