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27/03/2023
CMS ap­points Jan Peter IJspeert as part­ner
CMS ap­points law­yer Jan Peter IJspeert as part­ner as per 1 April 2023. With this ap­point­ment, CMS strengthens its Real Es­tate & Con­struc­tion prac­tice group.Jan Peter has worked at CMS since 2013. He spe­cial­ises...
News
23/03/2023
CMS European M&A Study 2023: Re­cord num­ber of deals des­pite eco­nom­ic chal­lenges
The European M&A-mar­ket main­tained a steady pace in 2022 des­pite eco­nom­ic head­winds, ac­cord­ing to the latest an­nu­al European M&A study by glob­al law firm CMS.Re­cord num­ber of deals The CMS European M&A...
News
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...
Law-Now Intellectual Property
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...
Law-Now Intellectual Property
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
Publication
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...
Law-Now
21/03/2023
Di­git­al health apps and telemedi­cine in the Neth­er­lands
Di­git­al Health Apps/Soft­ware 1. How is the soft­ware with­in di­git­al health apps clas­si­fied in your jur­is­dic­tion, and what reg­u­la­tion(s) ap­ply? The rel­ev­ant le­gis­la­tion is the “Wet op de medis­che hulp­mid­delen...
Expert Guide Life Sciences & Healthcare
Comparable
21/03/2023
Whis­tleblower pro­tec­tion and re­port­ing chan­nels in the Neth­er­lands
1. Is there a law on whis­tleblow­ing in your coun­try? Yes. As of 18 Feb­ru­ary 2023, the Whis­tleblowers Pro­tec­tion Act (in Dutch: Wet bes­cherm­ing klokken­lu­iders) ("WPA"), which trans­posess the EU Dir­ect­ive...
Expert Guide Employment & Pensions
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...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
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...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
29/03/2023
We­bin­ar: Get­ting to grips with changes to con­sumer reg­u­la­tion
At a time when com­pet­i­tion for cus­tom­er spend is high, don’t fall foul of changes to con­sumer pro­tec­tion law.The risks of non-com­pli­ance are sub­stan­tial - repu­ta­tion­al dam­age, civil and crim­in­al pen­al­ties and loss of busi­ness.Join our we­bin­ar on Wed­nes­day 29 March to un­der­stand the re­quire­ments of the Di­git­al Ser­vices Act, dark pat­terns and the new price re­duc­tion ob­lig­a­tions un­der the Price In­dic­a­tion Dir­ect­ive.We will also dis­cuss spe­cif­ic con­sumer law de­vel­op­ments in the UK, Ger­many and Spain.The we­bin­ar will be mod­er­ated by Katie Nagy de Nagybaczon, Part­ner & Co-Head of Con­sumer Products Sec­tor Group and will in­clude the fol­low­ing ex­perts:Melanie Shef­ford - Of Coun­sel, Tech­no­logy, Me­dia and Com­mu­nic­a­tions Alf­onso Codes - Part­ner, Pub­lic Law & Reg­u­lated Sec­tor­sJuan Moreno - Coun­sel, Pub­lic Law & Reg­u­lated Sec­torsStefan Lüft - Part­ner, In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty
Event Webinar
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...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
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