By: Janice Pan
On December 28, 2015, the People’s Bank of China issued its rules regarding online payments in China. Industry players criticized these rules as being the “harshest rules in history,” specifically targeting third-party payment industries and non-bank payment organizations. So what did China finally decide to do?
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Trade secret law protects everything from chocolate chip cookie recipes to transnational commercial methods. International agreements, however, leave protection of trade secrets to domestic enforcement. In addition to this international inconsistency, US trade secret law differs from the other forms of intellectual property in that it is governed by each individual state through the common law. To provide more certainty to businesses, a standardized trademark law should be passed in the United State.
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The United States produces about 1.8 zettabytes of data each year. To adapt to this increasing use of technology, the court system in the United States is modifying its discovery process to allow greater access to electronically stored information. Other countries, however, seem to be less adaptive and are instead taking increasing measures to protect data and privacy.
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