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  • Employment and pensions: Consultation on works councils

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    The Commission is consulting trade unions and employers groups on whether new EC legislation is necessary to ensure that employees are properly informed and consulted in the event of transfers and collective...

  • The potential for the rebirth of the scrip dividend

    Reino Unido 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

    Reino Unido 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

    Reino Unido 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

    Reino Unido 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

    Reino Unido 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?

    Reino Unido 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

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    You can amend a patent, even if the attack on validity is withdrawn In Lars Eric Norling -v- Eez-Away (UK) the Court held that, even though the defendants had withdrawn an attack on validity, once validity...

  • Attacks on validity and defending patents

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    "Parametritis" - or the obscure claim Raychem Corp's patent In Raychem Corp's patent (see also pages 8 and 9) there was a petition to revoke four patents with a total of 110 claims. 39 were originally...

  • Time to pay closer attention to Stamp Duty

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    Stamp duty has rarely been regarded as a "serious" tax and comparatively little effort has gone into mitigating it. This is likely to change following the introduction in the Budget of the 2% charge for...

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