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23/03/2023
CMS Eu­ro­pean M&A Stu­dy 2023: Re­cord num­ber of deals last year des­pi­te chal­len­ging...
The CMS Cor­po­ra­te/M&A Group is plea­sed to launch the 15th edi­ti­on of the Eu­ro­pean M&A Stu­dyIt has been a chal­len­ging year for M&A in view of ri­sing in­fla­ti­on and in­te­rest ra­tes, slo­wing growth and in­crea­sed...
23/03/2023
CMS Eu­ro­pean M&A Stu­dy 2023: Re­cord­aan­tal trans­ac­ties on­danks eco­no­mi­sche...
De Eu­ro­pe­se M&A-markt hield in 2022 stand on­danks eco­no­mi­sche te­gen­sla­gen. Dat blijkt uit de jaar­lijk­se Eu­ro­pean M&A Stu­dy van in­ter­na­ti­o­naal ad­vo­ca­ten­kan­toor CMS. Hoe­wel het hui­di­ge po­li­tie­ke kli­maat...
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 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...
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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...
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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...
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
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...