LC to Attend Russian Innovation Week 2013
RUSNANO, RVC & the Skolkovo Foundation | Russian Innovation Week 2013 present the 2nd Annual Russian Innovation Week Conference to be held on September 17th in Boston at the Boston Center for the Arts and September 19-20th in the Silicon Valley, California at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Leo Galperin, President ...
Joseph Goldman
LC Translates for Russian Playwright Joseph Goldman Joseph Goldman, a member of the Moscow Playwrights’ Professional Committee, has dedicated over 35 years of his professional life to script writing and to creating hundreds of film projects, among them feature films and documentaries, popular science, and publicity films. His politically-charged scripts first came ...
EU Patent Law Effective in 2014
New EU Patent Law The new EU patent law set to go into effect 2014 will affect both patent lawyers and providers patent translation services. Currently, patent translators may be required to translate between any language pair for European patents - so long as the language is recognized in the ...
The Code of Ethics of Courtroom Interpreters
Legal Interpreting | Courtroom Interpreters When you're in the interpreting services business, what you say is always important. Such was the case in Syracuse, New York where a court interpreter named Nancy Rodriguez Walker was charged with perjury during the murder trial of Emilier Carrasquillo-Fuentes and for leaking classified information ...
LC Interprets for Business Training Program
Language Connections will be providing Mandarin Chinese interpreting services as well as interpreting equipment for a finance and business training program taking place during the month of July over a period of several days between San Francisco and Foster City, California. Coordinating interpreters and equipment and ensuring that everything runs ...
Croatia Joins the EU
Croatia Joins the EU at the 28th Member The 2011 Treaty of Accession regarding Croatia's accession to the European Union (EU) went into effect on July 1st of this year. To facilitate the phasing-in following Croatia's accession, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a warning to pharmaceutical companies that Croatia would be joining ...
Are Patents Making HIV Drugs Too Costly?
IP Rights vs Generic Production of HIV drugs The well-known global medical aid group, Doctors Without Borders, recently warned at an international AIDS meeting that intellectual property (IP) rights are interfering with the generic production of newer HIV drugs, making them less accessible to HIV patients in developing countries. While prices of older ...
India’s IP Laws
US Pharma Viewpoint over India's Intellectual Property Environment The US pharma industry has recently expressed concern over India's current intellectual property (IP) environment, claiming that patent rights are being denied without sufficient reason. Moreover, the view of many in the pharma industry is that the current IP environment in India ...
5 Questions to Ask Before Translation
Life Sciences Translation Challenges A variety of issues have to be addressed in order to ensure that the any life sciences translation performed will be successful. Globalization's impact on the life science industry means that there is an the increasing amount of content that must be translated - at a ...
Multidrug Resistant TB (MDR-TB) in Moldova
Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) A new global threat is emerging, called multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), and there is growing concern over the number of worldwide cases that no longer respond to the most common treatments. The country of Moldova, located between Romania and Ukraine, has one of the highest rates of ...