Mr. Cheung is also an independent non-executive director of insurer AIA Group Ltd.
However, AIA sort of represents two themes within the portfolios and our view on financials.
Under the pre-AIA first-to-invent rules, Company A can get the patent because its employee invented first.
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The leaders also pledged to move faster to launch the ASEAN Investment Area (AIA).
The IPO deal gives AIG the option of selling an additional 15% of their AIA stake.
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However, AIA has failed to resolve the serious problems of the patent system that harm the tech industry.
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Missing out on AIA is not disastrous for Prudential, whose Asian business is already big and growing fast.
The Prudential bid pre-empted a plan to list a stake in AIA on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
As Cheryl points out in her article, the AIA expands the scope of what is available as prior art.
Spokesmen for AIA and Rusal said Mr. Cheung's positions at the companies remained unchanged, and they declined to comment further.
However, after the enactment of the AIA, the number of patent cases filed by trolls against smaller companies increased significantly.
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) carries a foreboding message in its new Architecture Billings Index as well.
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"The AIA has always returned the submission, unopened, " she said, because the organization knew Venturi and Scott Brown were applying together.
China Life had been negotiating earlier this year to buy AIA and AIG's aircraft-leasing arm, but ultimately the deal fell through.
Hezbollah Argentina works with the Islamic Association of Argentina (AIA), which has links to Hezbollah and to the government of Iran.
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Just two women have served as presidents of the AIA in its 155-year history, although a third will do so in 2014.
In three critical markets, Thailand, Malaysia and China, AIA has special rights to operate independently, free from laws requiring local joint-venture partners.
The next time Congress revisits the AIA to fix the remaining bugs, we hope it will finally get its PGR estoppel standard right.
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On September 16, President Obama signed into law the Smith-Leahy America Invests Act (AIA), the first significant change in patent law since 1952.
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The Americans refused to renegotiate in part because they feared Prudential's investors would have rejected even the lower price, hitting AIA's perceived valuation.
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The 1.7 billion shares up for sale represent around 14% of AIA, less than half the 32.9% stake AIG holds, according to a term sheet.
According to Remy Nathan, assistant vice president for international affairs at the AIA, the changes will streamline paperwork and processing requirements throughout the supply chain.
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The passage of the AIA drove down the number of defendants named in patent suits, but also drove up the number of suits filed by trolls.
The AIA's recent promotion of Mattel's " Architect Barbie" doll as a recruitment tool to interest young girls overlooks the cultural and institutional sexism in the profession.
The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) has announced that FAA Administrator Marion Blakey will become its new chief executive Nov. 12, replacing the organization's retiring CEO, John Douglass.
However, that is set to change due to the America Invents Act (AIA), a sweeping patent reform bill signed into law by President Obama in September 2011.
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The sale of AIA is the biggest in a string of transactions announced by AIG since it was largely seized by the American government in September 2008.
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