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Kenya Auditor General releases annual report detailing efforts to unravel public entity fraud

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Kenya’s Office of the Auditor General (OAG) Tuesday published its Annual Corporate Report for 2021 through 2022. ” The number of entities that showed significant and serious discrepancies between their financial statements and account records dropped by 2 percent and 1 percent respectively. There was a 2.5

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United States: "We Are An Agency That Is Willing And Able To Work With The Corporate World": UK SFO Director Lays Out Agency's Mindset And Priorities - Arnold & Porter

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Lisa Osofsky, Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), spoke at the annual ACI FCPA Conference in Washington DC today, offering her thoughts on the agency's outlook and priorities moving forward.

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Importance of Due Diligence for Patent Practitioners and the US/China Economic War

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She explained that the agency did not target Chinese fraudulent activity, but recognized that most of the current fraud and blatant misconduct before the PTO originates from China. Signature and certificate for correspondence filed in the Office. (a) d) or § 2.193(a) of this chapter. (a) d) or § 2.193(a) of this chapter. (a)

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Justices worry that broad reading of federal bribery law could sweep in lobbyists

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Joseph Percoco was sentenced to six years in prison for violating a federal fraud law that makes it a crime to deprive members of the public of the intangible right to “honest services.” Percoco urged the head of a state agency to allow the development to go forward without the need for such an agreement – which it did.

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Not Content to Just Play the Hits, DOJ’s New Corporate Enforcement Policies Bring A Fresh Spin to Corporate Enforcement

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Attorney’s Offices, and, importantly for readers of this blog, the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch (CPB), will all consistently reward corporations that voluntarily disclose and remediate misconduct. Many federal agencies do have policies that provide a safe harbor for voluntary disclosures, but FDA does not.

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The Battle Over Domicile Disclosure by Trademark Applicants

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As the agency was battling fraudulent trademark application filings, it concluded that the domicile disclosure could serve as an important tool — especially with regard to the “U.S. mailing addresses, so verifying an applicant’s domicile is crucial to combat this fraud. licensed attorney as their representative.

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Using AI in your Patent Practice

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” One of the key takeaways from the notice is that existing USPTO rules and policies apply to the use of AI tools in matters before the Office. The USPTO’s guidance document raises a different concern – that the agency will be bombarded with too many references for an examiner to individually review.