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10/09/2024
CMS Annual Review of English Construction Law Developments: An International...
We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2024 edition of our internationally focused Annual Review of English Construction Law Developments. The Annual Review summarises key developments in English...
11/06/2024
Current floods in the south of Brazil: a quick overview of the largest...
Torrential rain in the very south of Brazil since the end of April 2024 has caused massive flooding across hundreds of cities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.  In terms of affected area and economic...
28/09/2023
EP Case Law in Brief: Erroneous Disclosures
“Mistakes in a document do not in themselves constitute prior art such as to prevent the grant of a patent.”So begins section I.C. 4.9 of the Case Law of the Boards of Appeal. This statement, and...
07/03/2022
Hydrogen in India: Issues & Challenges
Global demand for hydrogen has dramatically increased over the past five years, creating what many refer to as the hydrogen economy. What makes hydrogen attractive is that it acts as both an enabler of...
07/09/2021
Gender pay: What’s needed to make equality a reality?
A CMS Webinar on Tuesday 21 September will explore what society and businesses need to do to close the ongoing disparity in men and women’s pay.Did you know that 18 September 2021 is UN Equal Pay Day...
22/05/2020
Foreign investments in German life science companies become subject to...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Germany has widened the scope of its investment control to include numerous life science companies.The amendments to the Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance ("AWV")...
30/04/2020
USPTO finds an invention created by an AI machine is not patentable
The US Patent and Trade Mark Office has found that DABUS is not a person and so cannot be considered an inventor of a patent. DABUS is an artificial intelligence (AI) machine. The USPTO accepted the indication...
31/01/2020
UK Intellectual Property Office finds that patent law does not cater for...
The UK Intellectual Property Office has found that DABUS is not a person and so cannot be considered an inventor of a patent. DABUS is an artificial intelligence (AI) machine. The UKIPO accepted the indication...
17/05/2018
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: From a Labour and Tax Perspective...
Modern information technology, intelligent algorithms and production robots are strongly influencing the working world in the 21st century. Everyday tasks are already being performed by intelligent algorithms...
13/04/2018
CEE Office Real Estate Compass: Is your workplace Mil­len­ni­al-ready?
A new report by Colliers International and international law firm CMS has found that one-third of professionals in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) believe their workplace will change over the next 2-3...
02/02/2018
IBM Watson at work
There may be much hype around artificial intelligence but IBM has been demonstrating the business potential of machine learning through its Watson analytics platform since 2011. Watson came about after...
22/01/2018
Innovate or your deal could die
Any company or lawyer that has ever been involved in any kind of merger or acquisition transaction will know one thing for sure – a deal typically involve hours of legal work, including often mundane...