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15 Jun 2015, 12:20 pm
Of the five priorities for early action listed in the European Commission’s Capital Markets Union green paper (lowering barriers to accessing capital markets, widening the investor base for SMEs, building sustainable securitization, developing European private placement markets, and boosting long-term investment), bankers speaking at the International Capital Market Forum’s annual conference earlier this month strongly agreed with only one of them: securitization. [read post]
14 Jun 2015, 7:07 am
The innovation patent is Australia’s second-tier patent right, characterised by a shorter term (eight years), a lower threshold of innovation (‘innovative step’ rather than ‘inventive step’), and lower cost (largely because substantive examination of an innovation patent is optional, unless enforcement is required) than a regular ‘standard’ patent.The new report is the result of analysis conducted under the auspices of IP Australia’s Office of… [read post]
31 May 2015, 4:17 pm
Compliance is of particular concern to SMEs, who typically name the parent company’s CEO as the WFOE’s legal representative, and thereby expose the CEO to criminal liability in China for employees’ misdeeds. [read post]
29 May 2015, 7:28 pm
Floreani, Vincent Arthur, Fixing Europe’s Youth Unemployment and Skills Mismatch, Can Public Financial Support to SMEs Be Effective? [read post]
26 May 2015, 11:04 am
The response contains specific proposals for improved access to credit information for SMEs and increasing cross-border retail participation in investment funds such as UCITS. [read post]
24 May 2015, 5:22 pm
With the right incentives and assistance, as foreseen in the accompanying measures, SMEs can be convinced to participate out of their free will and in line with their business logic. [read post]
22 May 2015, 9:23 am
China’s Internet The Opinion proposes to resolve the following primary barriers to developing a modern e-commerce industry in China: High minimum capital requirements and related licensing restrictions that keep SMEs and individuals out of the market. [read post]
22 May 2015, 6:41 am
According to Court research, many of these cases involved small companies (SMEs). [read post]
22 May 2015, 6:31 am
The question now taking center stage in the on-going Unified Patent Court saga is all about money, budgets and value in the form of court fees, SME support and recoverable costs in the UPC (see Kat Darren's recent post on a different monetary debate regarding the unitary patent here and UPC court fees here). [read post]
EPO revises proposals for renewal fees for Unitary Patents - but does it really make any difference?
21 May 2015, 8:15 am
The revised fees provide a theoretical saving of €2,440 (trueTOP4), €1,660 (true TOP5) or €2,843.75 (SME) compared to their counterparts in the original EPO proposal. [read post]
21 May 2015, 1:29 am
Issues raised "...include a lack of transparency as to how they use the information they acquire, their strong bargaining power compared to that of their clients, which may be reflected in their terms and conditions (particularly for SMEs), promotion of their own services to the disadvantage of competitors, and non-transparent pricing policies, or restrictions on pricing and sale conditions". [read post]
15 May 2015, 6:42 am
The conference will confront the changes that will ensue from these developments in the region, and provide a forum to share perspectives on legal issues from around Asia and from beyond.Topics of PapersTo this end, proposals for papers are now being invited on the following topics:Changing approaches to international law Changing approaches to international law as a discipline, including studies on the teaching, research and practice of international law in Asian contexts; Third World approaches to… [read post]
15 May 2015, 6:14 am
"Having an office of the Unified Patent Court in Italy will allow our enterprises to have a Court in the national territory for the protection of their interests also in Italian language, not forgetting that if we join the Package now we will still hope to have a voice in the systems related to the Unitary Patent renewal and their distribution, and to ask more support for our SME", the Government representative concluded.Nearly a week earlier, on 7 May, European Patent… [read post]
8 May 2015, 7:52 am
The consultation document (pdf) provides two proposals for the basic structure of the Court fees (Rule 370), a table of fees, a scale of ceilings for recoverable costs, and an Explanatory Note.The two basic proposals differ in how reduced court fees work - the first applies refund of court fees in order to reward certain kinds of behaviour that reduce the Court's workload (basically if the action is withdrawn or settled early; or if a single judge is used), while the second provides… [read post]
5 May 2015, 3:07 pm
The compensation scheme, funded by renewal fees, reimburses all translation costs up to a ceiling, for such individual/SME/non-profit/university applicants who file in one of the official languages of the Union that is not working language of the EPO. [read post]
5 May 2015, 12:33 pm
Watson is learning not just speaking languages, it is learning SME languages such as metallurgy and law. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 10:38 am
UMG’s loss was WMG’s gain and the smallest of the three majors narrowed the gap on second-placed SME. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 10:30 am
Designed by business for smaller businesses, this International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) guide on competition law compliance aims to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their employees understand why complying with competition law makes good business sense. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 4:00 am
A recent survey on 1,507 SME's from Aviva has revealed that 11% or 1 in 10 SME's are unaware that employers' liability insurance is a legal requirement. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 8:00 pm
UMG’s loss was WMG’s gain and the smallest of the three majors narrowed the gap on second-placed SME. [read post]
