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  • Cyber Squatting

    United Kingdom 25.07.2000
    One of the fundamental issues in any e-commerce business is a decent domain name. A domain name is a unique alpha-numeric "address" that enables the world to find your site. Domain names always have two...
  • Positive precedent established as Uzbekistan’s legal system upholds foreign arbitration award

    Czech RepublicRomaniaRussiaUnited Kingdom 10.04.2000
    Foreign investors will be gratified to learn that, in the sphere of dispute resolution, a positive precedent has been set. The law firm CMS Cameron McKenna recently represented a foreign investor and successfully...
  • Arbitration: the preferred means of resolving disputes between business partners in Uzbekistan

    Czech RepublicRomaniaRussiaUnited Kingdom 10.04.2000
    CMS Cameron McKenna’s Igor Sidelnikov looks at the crucial importance to Uzbekistan’s foreign investors of providing for an effective mechanism for resolving potential disputes between business...
  • Getting fulfilment from reading the small print

    United Kingdom 29.03.2000
    Andrew Crawford advises on sorting out the legal and practical problems on fulfilment. The venture had a convincing ‘suit’ and an ‘apparently’ coherent business plan. The aspiring...
  • Budget 2000

    United Kingdom 24.03.2000
    At least Mr Brown seems to have avoided a Lawson style inflationary tax give away! Unfortunately that may be the best that can be said about a fairly dull Budget. On the positive side we should be alright...
  • Competition Act Start Day

    Czech RepublicRomaniaUnited Kingdom 29.02.2000
    The Competition Act 1998 comes fully into force today, 1st March 2000. This means: * anti-competitive UK arrangements are prohibited * abuse of a dominant position in the UK is prohibited * fines of up...
  • Exhaustion of trade mark rights: Pharmacia (Upjohn) and Paranova

    United Kingdom 31.10.1999
    The European Court of Justice has ruled on the re-affixing of trade marks on re-packaged good so that they can be sold in different jurisdictions and the control of the proprietor of a trade mark in relation...
  • Sebago Case: Exhaustion of trade mark rights

    United Kingdom 11.10.1999
    The doctrine of the exhaustion of rights is a limitation on an intellectual property right. Once a product has initially been marketed in the Community, Community law will impinge on the exercise of the...
  • Notification of a licensing system

    United Kingdom 31.08.1999
    The European Commission has received a notification of a patent licensing programme from the following companies: Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Time Warner,...
  • Procter & Gamble: Trade mark

    United Kingdom 31.07.1999
    Procter & Gamble (P&G) applied to register “Baby-dry” as a Community trade mark in respect of disposable nappies. The application was rejected by the Office for Harmonisation in the...