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  • Recent news and developments: State guarantees

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Article 92 of the EC Treaty prohibits member states from granting state aid, including state guarantees, which would distort competition. If a member state wishes to give a guarantee which could be interpreted...

  • The potential for the rebirth of the scrip dividend

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Mark Nichols plots the potential for the rebirth of the scrip The latest Finance Act confirms the demise of the repayable tax credit, immediately for pension funds and from April 1999 for others including...

  • Statements of case in patent revocation proceedings

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Statements of case in patent revocation proceedings, but still only exceptionally This was a petition to revoke Riker Laboratories Inc's patent. The petitioner applied to the Court under Order 18 Rule...

  • Competition and trade law: Woodpulp decision reviewed

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Main contacts: Richard Taylor, David Marks, Sue Hankey and Richard Eccles (Brussels) Woodpulp decision reviewed The Court of First Instance (CFI) has overruled a 1984 Decision of the Commission. The Commission...

  • Environmental Assessment 1

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    In March the EU adopted a new directive on environmental assessments which Member States have until March 1999 to implement. Amongst other things, it adds 19 types of projects to the list of those where...

  • Competition and trade law: Draft notice on relevant market

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    The Commission has published a draft Notice explaining how it applies the concept of relevant product and geographic markets for the purposes of EC competition law. It is first necessary to identify what...

  • Working patents - who can do it?

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Co-owners - how can they work the patented invention? In Henry Brothers (Magerfeld) -v- Ministry of Defence the Court considered the rights of co-owners under Section 36(2) Patents Act 1997 which provides...

  • Amendment of patents

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    You can amend a patent, even if the attack on validity is withdrawn In Lars Eric Norling -v- Eez-Away (UK) the Court held that, even though the defendants had withdrawn an attack on validity, once validity...

  • Contaminated Land Regime - an outline as to the direction in which this issue may be heading, based on indications given by the Department of Transport, Environment and the Regions 1

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Contaminated Land Regime - latest news Pamela Castle reviews progress We have been in contact with an official from the Contaminated Land Unit at the Department of Transport, Environment and the Regions...

  • Commission Communication on the Second Banking Directive

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    After nearly two years of consultation, the Commission has finalised its Communication on freedom to provide services and the general good in the Second Banking Directive (89/646/EEC). Its intention is...

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