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A bankruptcy is generally in no-one’s best interest, and worsens everyone’s position. 30 September 2014
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At the end of June 2014, the first law of employee inventions came into force in Romania. 30 September 2014
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Service invention has become a popular issue of late. Studies of service invention have shown that more than 60 percent of inventions for which patents are filed have been discovered through work performed under the umbrella of an employment relationship. 30 September 2014
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On June 19, 2014 the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Alice Corporation Pty Ltd v CLS Bank International (Alice), affirming the underlying Federal Circuit’s opinion finding all claims of the patent in suit invalid. 30 September 2014
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The European Commission’s Innovation Union proposals, launched in 2010, aimed to give companies and non-commercial research entities the legal means to protect the special knowledge they develop. 30 September 2014
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On February 25, 2014, the Russian State Duma passed a federal law introducing amendments to the provisions of Parts I, II and IV of the Russian Civil Code. The amendments will be effective from October 1, 2014. 29 September 2014
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As treaties and courts are founded, the resulting jurisprudence requires treaties and courts gradually to change. 29 July 2014
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In recent years, Peru has begun to build a strong commercial relationship with Asia and, as a result, China is now one of its largest international suppliers. Indeed, China and the US between them account for no less than 39 percent of Peru’s imports. 29 July 2014
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A patent is a statutorily granted right that gives the patentee an exclusive monopoly to a patented invention for 20 years in exchange for a detailed disclosure of the construction and/or working of the invention. 29 July 2014
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Article 7/1-ı of the Turkish Trademark Decree Law no. 556 established a legal basis in 1995 for the Turkish Patent Institute (TPI) to refuse trademark applications on the basis that an application is similar to a well-known trademark. However, at the time, there was no mechanism available to the TPI for establishing whether a given trademark was well known or not. 29 July 2014
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