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For global markets, there is no generally applicable competition law. However, today's WTO does not lack rules that have an impact on the...

International pressure by industrialized countries often occurs through bilateral dialogues, capacity-building programs, and bilateral...

Efficient, well-designed and balanced intellectual property (IP) systems promote investment in innovation and growth. Intellectual...

Norms on the protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are set out in international conventions (treaties), as...

Exceptions can be used from the TRIPS legislative design and structure for striking a balance between different rights and interests, for...

Patents give protection to technological inventions and design rights to the appearance of mass-produced goods for limited time periods....

Comprise of technical features/inventions mostly (industrial property) under Article 52 EPC and Article 27 TRIPS. Patents are not really...

The appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features of in particular lines, contours, shape, texture and/or...

Any signs, in particular words, including personal names, or designs, letters, numerals, colours, the shape of goods or the packaging of...

Copyrights encompass a non-exhaustive list of original “works” (Infopaq). These are Literary and artistic work (Arts.1 and 2(1) of the...

Often “hard law” is contrasted with “soft law”. A. “Hard law” and “Soft law” distinction with reference to international contract law....

Region Skåne (Scania County), a Swedish Contracting Authority, is initiating a public procurement procedure in order to buy electric...

Introduction To what extent does the Sui Generis Database Right limit the Right to Data Portability and do these two rights intersect...

Intersection between the Right to Data Portability under the GDPR and the Sui Generis Database Right Do the two rights interfere with the...

It is the contract terms between seller and producer on a B2B basis and between seller and consumer on a B2C basis which defines the...

“Marriage after a century of cohabitation (…)” (Financial Times, 28 June 2005) is one of the more unconventional ways to describe the...

The suitability of the relevant statutory regimes and the use of shareholder agreements for the protection of shareholders’ interests....

How did the acquisition take place considering all legal and company restructuring factors? This article includes the following...

With CETA, the EU and Canada pledge to ensure that economic growth, social issues and environmental protection go hand in hand. CETA...

There has been an ongoing debate concerning the pressing need to incorporate a social clause with fairer minimum trade or core labour...