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20/04/2023
Token­ized As­sets Roundtable Vol. 4
For the fourth time, CMS is or­gan­iz­ing a Token­ized As­sets Roundtable, cov­er­ing the de­vel­op­ments and op­por­tun­it­ies in the crypto and Block­chain in­dustry, des­pite the cur­rent "crypto winter". The event...
23/03/2023
European Pat­ent Of­fice (EPO) dig­ging its heals in over the need for de­scrip­tion...
As a com­ple­ment to the 10th edi­tion of the EPO "Case Law of the Boards of Ap­peal" (CLB), the EPO has pub­lished an An­nu­al Re­view con­tain­ing sum­mar­ies of de­cisions from 2022. The re­view provides a them­at­ic...
22/03/2023
European Pat­ent Of­fice (EPO) level of dis­clos­ure re­quired for an­ti­bod­ies...
As a com­ple­ment to the 10th edi­tion of the EPO "Case Law of the Boards of Ap­peal" (CLB), the EPO has pub­lished an An­nu­al Re­view con­tain­ing sum­mar­ies of de­cisions from 2022. The re­view provides a them­at­ic...
22/03/2023
CMS European M&A Study 2023
The CMS Cor­por­ate/M&A Group is pleased to launch the 15th edi­tion of the European M&A Study
21/03/2023
Is a pa­tient in a clin­ic­al tri­al con­sidered to be a mem­ber of the pub­lic...
In T 0670/20, the ques­tion was wheth­er the in­tern­al struc­ture of medi­cin­al tab­lets had been made avail­able to the pub­lic by pa­tients tak­ing part in clin­ic­al tri­als in­volving ad­min­is­tra­tion of the tab­lets...
21/03/2023
Di­git­al health apps and telemedi­cine in Switzer­land
Di­git­al Health Apps/Soft­ware 1. How is the soft­ware with­in di­git­al health apps clas­si­fied in your jur­is­dic­tion, and what reg­u­la­tion(s) ap­ply? 1.1 Is it con­sidered a “med­ic­al device” or a “product”...
Comparable
21/03/2023
Whis­tleblower pro­tec­tion and re­port­ing chan­nels in Switzer­land
1. Is there a law on whis­tleblow­ing in your coun­try? In Switzer­land, there is no ex­pli­cit law on whis­tleblow­ing. In 2020, the pro­pos­al of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil for Le­gis­la­tion on Whis­tleblow­ing was re­jec­ted...
Comparable
20/03/2023
Out with the old, in with the new? Con­sid­er­a­tions for pat­entees in opt­ing...
So far in this series of blog posts, we began with an art­icle that high­lighted some of the key changes between the cur­rent European sys­tem of pat­ent pro­sec­u­tion and en­force­ment and the new Unit­ary Pat­ent...
20/03/2023
UK An­nounces it will be­come a party to the Singa­pore Con­ven­tion on Me­di­ation
It has been an­nounced that the UK will be­come a party to the United Na­tions Con­ven­tion on In­ter­na­tion­al Set­tle­ment Agree­ments Res­ult­ing from Me­di­ation (the “Singa­pore Con­ven­tion”), as an “im­port­ant...
03/2023
CMS Switzer­land re­com­men­ded in the Cham­bers Europe Guide 2023
Cham­bers and Part­ners has pub­lished its rank­ings of Europe's lead­ing law firms and law­yers in the Europe Guide 2023. Our firm and our law­yers are lis­ted in both rank­ings for Switzer­land.
17/03/2023
In­ter­Di­git­al v Len­ovo – High Court sets glob­al FRAND li­cence terms
The UK High Court has handed down its de­cision in the FRAND tri­al of the In­ter­Di­git­al v Len­ovo lit­ig­a­tion. It con­cerned In­ter­Di­git­al, an Amer­ic­an com­pany hold­ing pat­ents rel­ev­ant to 3G, 4G and 5G tech­no­logy...
10/03/2023
En­ergy / Ship­ping – Ef­fect of Anti-as­sign­ment Clauses and Trans­fers to...
The re­cent de­cision of the Com­mer­cial Court in Dassault Avi­ation SA v Mit­sui Sum­itomo In­sur­ance Co Ltd [2022] EWHC 3287 (Comm) con­cerned a con­trac­tu­al pro­hib­i­tion against as­sign­ment and wheth­er this ap­plied...