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Employment: Sometimes it’s Hard to Fire a Crook
It is well known that corporate fraud and embezzlement is rampant. Companies spend billions on financial controls, auditing, and internal investigations to prevent this conduct. A good prevention program mitigates risk. A good internal investigation develops support for a civil suit or criminal prosecution, or at least grounds to fire the bad guy(s). However, at least in London, companies recently had a bit of trouble firing employees who stole for them, via foreign exchange


Trademarks: What is a Frappuccino, really?
I’ll fail to answer that question later. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants and maintains trademarks. What is a trademark? USPTO lawyers helpfully tell us a “‘trademark’ protects the use of a word, name, symbol or device that is used in the trade of goods to identify the source of the goods, distinguishing the goods from those produced by another.” What? In plain English, a Mark (a trademark) can be a word or phrase, a symbol, or a combination. It is intended