Articles

16/06/2009
Recent EPO decisions - May 2009
by Claire Wilson ,Ewan Nettleton ,Gregory Bacon ,Isabel Potocka
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09/06/2009
Legal Q&A ... adjustments for disabled staff
by Charlotte Hughes Scholes ,Clare Cruise
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09/06/2009
Where did that come Phorm?  EU adds to legal controversy
by Ben Winslade
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09/06/2009
ICO approves Accenture and Atmel BCRs
by Alistair Mann
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09/06/2009
The chips are down: Intel's €1.06 billion fine
by Helen Hopson ,William Jensen
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09/06/2009
IT Contracts - Drafting tips in a downturn
by Adrian Sim
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09/06/2009
Earn-outs: worth the consideration?
by Charlotte Rigby
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08/06/2009
The Responsibility of the Non-Executive Director: an effective check and balance?
by Frances Brown
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28/05/2009
The Code for Leasing Business Premises  2007
by Teresa Edmund
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22/05/2009
Recent EPO decisions - April 2009
by Ewan Nettleton ,Gregory Bacon ,Isabel Potocka ,Jane Craghill ,Richard Pinckney
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19/05/2009
IMPORTANT - Budget 2009 - a Real Estate Perspective
by Jonathan Chapper
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19/05/2009
IMPORTANT - Debt in 2009: Tolerance at a Price
by Iain Redford
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19/05/2009
Business Rates Deferral Scheme 2009/10
by Jonathan Chapper
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19/05/2009
Know Your Tenant
by Teresa Edmund
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19/05/2009
"What do you mean they're now my employees?" - the Hidden Cost of TUPE
by Charlotte Hughes Scholes
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19/05/2009
Time to Move On?
by Tim Allen
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19/05/2009
Who is my Landlord?  The Position under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954
by Heidi Pfleger
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19/05/2009
An Unwelcome Innovation
by Tim Allen
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19/05/2009
Uncertain Terms : Making Sure You Avoid Granting Security of Tenure
by Sophie Cattell
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19/05/2009
Competent Landlords and Defective Notices under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954
by Heidi Pfleger
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08/05/2009
Online Behavioural Advertisers Agree to Behave Themselves
by Alistair Mann
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08/05/2009
Data Shirking? Government Withdraws Information Sharing Powers
by Ben Winslade
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08/05/2009
Bernard Madoff - a Case of Substantial Public Interest
by Nicola Russell
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08/05/2009
A Room* with a Street View (*more of an Office, really)
by William Jensen
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30/04/2009
Disclosing Bad News - Points to Note for AIM Companies
by Richard Swaine
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28/04/2009
Speedy Appeal on Napp's Slow-Release Painkiller Patents
by Jessica Fisher
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28/04/2009
Compensation for Employee Inventors - Kelly v GE Healthcare
by Katie Hutchinson
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28/04/2009
A Budget for Biotech?
by Mark Hawes
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28/04/2009
Insufficiency - is one test sufficient? The House of Lords revisits Biogen
by Gregory Bacon
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28/04/2009
Stop Press - EC Consultation on Marketing Authorisation Variation Procedure
by Annabelle Maddison
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28/04/2009
Court of Appeal guidance on conducting parallel EPO and UK proceedings
by Sara Davies
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28/04/2009
The medicine that was left behind: Alzheimer's drug that was never updated in line with EU requirements cannot be a 'reference product'
by Marina Barnden
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28/04/2009
Labels and leaflets - How to make them readable?
by Muriel Riba
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28/04/2009
A hearty review of the experimental use defence
by Jane Craghill
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28/04/2009
Revised UKIPO Practice on Stem Cell Inventions
by Ewan Nettleton
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28/04/2009
Update on the European Commission's recast of the Medical Devices Directives Initiative
by ,Sarah Faircliffe
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28/04/2009
Traditional Herbal Medicines:  Regulatory Obstacles to Effective Product Promotion
by Marina Barnden
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28/04/2009
Interim UK Regulatory Route Map for Stem Cell Research and Manufacture
by Muriel Riba
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28/04/2009
Regulatory developments to tackle counterfeit medicines
by Annabelle Maddison
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28/04/2009
Patent for transdermal fentanyl patch held invalid
by Laura von Hertzen
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28/04/2009
Can the skilled person be different for obviousness and sufficiency?
by Simon Llewellyn
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28/04/2009
A cautionary tale - experiments in patent cases
by James Boon
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28/04/2009
New developments from the UKIPO on SPCs
by Georgia Gavriilidou
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28/04/2009
Secondary Common General Knowledge - is the doctrine now entrenched?
by Catriona MacLeod
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28/04/2009
Pharmaceutical patent pools?
by Isabel Potocka
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28/04/2009
NICE is struck again on the transparency front
by Gregory Bacon
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28/04/2009
One case results in two useful judgments
by Jane Craghill
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22/04/2009
Earn-outs: on the increase
by Charlotte Rigby
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15/04/2009
Facebook's Terms of Use: Do you live on, even after you're gone?
by Adrian Sim
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15/04/2009
Patents Court somewhat depressed about software patents
by James Boon
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15/04/2009
ICO warning as it demolishes covert employee-vetting service
by James Brunger
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15/04/2009
What's on the horizon for on-line commerce...?
by Helen Hopson
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02/04/2009
Adverse Possession does not breach Human Rights
by Heidi Pfleger ,Juliana Mocatta
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01/04/2009
Advocate General delivers opinion on the registration of "monomeric substances" under the REACH Regulation
by Jane Craghill
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01/04/2009
Software Patenting in a State of Flux
by Ewan Nettleton
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30/03/2009
Limiting Auditors' Liability
by Frances Brown ,Iain Redford
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24/03/2009
Taxation of compensation payments for injury to feelings
by Linda Farrell
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16/03/2009
Recent EPO decisions - February 2009
by Ewan Nettleton
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16/03/2009
No Confusion - Less Joy For Trade Mark Owners
by Andrew Bowler ,Ellen Hughes-Jones
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16/03/2009
Tackling Abusive Company Name Registration
by Gillian Brearley ,Paul Walsh
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10/03/2009
Review of Patent Cases in the English Courts in 2008
by Brian Cordery ,Ewan Nettleton ,Sam Tuxford ,Lorna Ballington
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09/03/2009
These are not just software maintenance fees, these are M&S software maintenance fees! 
by Catherine Reed
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09/03/2009
Lords object to the "gradual but incessant creep" of surveillance
by Nicola Russell
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09/03/2009
Digital Britain interim report and illicit file-sharing
by Michael Stevenson
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09/03/2009
Is hope subject to copyright?  Does it make a difference if you include Barack Obama but leave out George Clooney?
by James Boon
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06/03/2009
Patentability and prior disclosure: boundaries defined
by Andrew Bowler ,Gregory Bacon
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03/03/2009
Shareholders rights: from strength to strength
by Iain Redford
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03/03/2009
Snow fun ... if you can't get to work!
by Clare Cruise
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01/03/2009
SDLT Pointers for Agents
by Jonathan Chapper ,Tim Allen
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16/02/2009
Recent EPO decisions - January 2009
by Dominic Adair ,Ewan Nettleton ,Gemma Barrett ,Jane Craghill
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09/02/2009
Oh (Big) Brother! New data sharing powers stir up controversy
by Ben Winslade
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09/02/2009
Rome II Regulation - doing as the Romans do
by Natasha Lewis
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09/02/2009
Don't wa(i)ver on exercising your right to terminate
by Angela Fouracre
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09/02/2009
FoIA bill exempting MPs' expenses axed
by Helen Rose
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30/01/2009
Competition law in pharmaceuticals: a moving target
by Helen Hopson ,Pat Treacy ,Sophie Lawrance
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27/01/2009
What's in a selection? New guidance on selection patents
by Gregory Bacon
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27/01/2009
At last: the new Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme
by Muriel Riba
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27/01/2009
The EPO rules on the patentability of stem cell inventions
by Ewan Nettleton
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27/01/2009
The European Commission Pharma Inquiry - where are we?
by Liz Cohen
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27/01/2009
New Commission Proposal - Pharmaceutical companies allowed to inform the public about their prescription medicines
by Muriel Riba
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27/01/2009
Latest EPO decision on the Myriad breast cancer patents
by Jessica Fisher
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27/01/2009
Price freezes imposed on medicines - Advocate General's opinion
by Muriel Riba
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27/01/2009
Clarification on clinical trials from the MHRA
by Georgia Gavriilidou
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27/01/2009
Stem cell research update
by Annabelle Maddison
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27/01/2009
The EU Paediatric Regulation two years on: is this a success story?
by Maria Georgiou
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27/01/2009
Supplementary Protection Certificates on enantiomers
by Robert Burrows
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27/01/2009
Servier v Apotex: first English damages inquiry under a cross-undertaking
by Scott Foster
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27/01/2009
Particularising common general knowledge
by Tom Ohta
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26/01/2009
Charities & Public Benefit
by Charlotte Rigby ,John Lace
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23/01/2009
Workers Accrue Holiday Entitlement During Sick Leave
by Linda Farrell
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22/01/2009
FSA clarifies disclosure obligations for senior managers of UK plcs
by Iain Redford
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22/01/2009
IMPORTANT - A Victory for Common Sense - The House of Lords' Decision in Scottish & Newcastle - v - Raguz
by Tim Allen
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22/01/2009
Stay Cool - The New Rules on Air-conditioning Inspections
by Sophie Cattell
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22/01/2009
Brands in the Real Estate Industry - An Additional Form of Property
by Sally Dunstan
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22/01/2009
An Investment Vehicle for the Twenty First Century?  The Reform of Limited Partnerships
by Iain Redford
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22/01/2009
Pre-Budget Report 2008 - Real Estate Aspects
by Jonathan Chapper
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22/01/2009
IMPORTANT - Subject to Contract Revisited
by Alexandra Lethbridge
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22/01/2009
Squeezing the Space ... Reasonably - Landlord's Consent to Assignment and Subletting
by Juliana Mocatta
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22/01/2009
Peaceable Re-entry - A Practical Remedy for Landlords?
by Trevor Crosse
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22/01/2009
No Help for a Victim of Fraud - The Decision in Barclays Bank Plc -v- Guy
by Heidi Pfleger
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16/01/2009
Jumping the gene patent hurdle - New rules on Industrial Application
by Edward Nodder ,Robert Fitt
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16/01/2009
Recent EPO decisions - December 2008
by Ewan Nettleton ,Gemma Barrett ,James Boon ,Richard Pinckney
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16/01/2009
Paying your dues
by Teresa Edmund ,Tim Allen
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09/01/2009
We All Have a Right to Privacy, but Some Things are More Private Than Others...
by Catherine Reed
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09/01/2009
New UKIPO Guidance on Software Patents
by James Boon
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09/01/2009
March to Data Breach Notification Continues Despite Fatigue
by Ben Winslade
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09/01/2009
The Price of Exclusivity
by Helen Rose ,Simon Llewellyn
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12/12/2008
E-Commerce Contact Obligations - How Much "offline" Presence Must an Online Business Maintain?
by Sam Tuxford
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12/12/2008
DNA Retention in Breach of Human Rights
by Jessica Fisher
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12/12/2008
Computer Misuse Act Amendments
by Michael Stevenson
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12/12/2008
Private Lives?
by Rachel Burfitt
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12/12/2008
The Information Commissioner's New Powers and the Missing Right of Audit
by Maria Georgiou
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09/12/2008
Shareholder rights: Going from strength to strength
by Iain Redford ,Rachel Curtis
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08/12/2008
Recent EPO decisions - November 2008
by Dominic Adair ,Ewan Nettleton ,Richard Pinckney ,Robert Burrows
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04/12/2008
Harassment: associative discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief
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04/12/2008
Employment Act 2008 and ACAS Code of Practice
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04/12/2008
Can employees be made to take holiday during their notice periods?
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04/12/2008
Does receipt of incapacity benefit prevent claimants from receiving compensation for loss of earnings?
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04/12/2008
Is there a right to legal representation at an internal disciplinary hearing?
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04/12/2008
Is a requirement to have a degree age discriminatory?
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02/12/2008
Trading through a subsidiary - a look at the tax issues
by Miranda Cass
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02/12/2008
What is the Standard of Proof for Patentability?
by Liz Cohen
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28/11/2008
Directors' Duties and Responsibilities
by Frances Brown ,Iain Redford
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28/11/2008
European Data Protection Supervisor Weighs in on IP Address Debate
by Jessica Fisher
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28/11/2008
What's in a Name? - Tackling Abusive Company Name Registration
by Gillian Brearley
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28/11/2008
Software Patent Law Recompiled
by James Brunger
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28/11/2008
Poetic Justice - Extracting and Adapting Data Infringes Database Right
by Ewan Nettleton
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10/11/2008
Except for research
by Ewan Nettleton
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01/11/2008
A test to determine when A + B = SPC
by Robert Burrows
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31/10/2008
Reasonable adjustments and the cumulative approach
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31/10/2008
Information Commissioner orders publication of ET respondents' names and addresses
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31/10/2008
Stress claims and counselling services
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31/10/2008
Time off for dependants - when does the right apply?
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31/10/2008
Childcare vouchers provided under a salary sacrifice scheme must continue during AML says HMRC
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31/10/2008
Is redundancy selection based upon length of service criterion unlawful age discrimination?
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31/10/2008
HMRC Change Direction on Demibourne
by Jonathan Chapper
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31/10/2008
Can restrictive covenants survive a TUPE transfer?
by Charlotte Hughes Scholes
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31/10/2008
Fighting parallel trade: in the 'ordinary' course of business....?
by Helen Hopson ,Pat Treacy
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27/10/2008
Breaking news 1 - High Court delivers judgment in damages enquiry concerning a pharmaceutical patent
by Scott Foster
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27/10/2008
Licence to litigate
by Alistair Mann
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27/10/2008
Industrial Application: Product or Perish?
by Ian Turner
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27/10/2008
Breaking news 2 - "Essential similarity": ECJ rules that there is little scope for differences between member states under the mutual recognition principle
by Maria Isabel Manley ,Marina Barnden
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27/10/2008
Court of Appeal follows "common sense" on the impact of generic entry
by Ailsa Carter
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27/10/2008
New guidelines on the examination of patent applications for medical inventions
by Scott Foster
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27/10/2008
Managing lease negotiations
by Teresa Edmund
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27/10/2008
UCL Partners - a health research powerhouse
by Annabelle Maddison
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27/10/2008
Location, location, location: ECJ is sympathetic to Germany's hospital supply arrangements
by Marina Barnden
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27/10/2008
UK Life Science Marketing Strategy moves forward
by Katie Hutchinson
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27/10/2008
A New Test for Combination Products and SPCs
by Robert Burrows
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21/10/2008
A clash of heads
by Helen Hopson ,Laura von Hertzen
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17/10/2008
Recent EPO decisions - September 2008
by Ewan Nettleton ,Vanessa Wettner
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16/10/2008
Directors' Conflicts of Interest - A New Regime
by Natasha Lewis
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16/10/2008
Without borders? Online retailing under review  
by Helen Hopson
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16/10/2008
Binding Data Authority Rules
by James Brunger
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16/10/2008
What's all the fuss about Cloud Computing?
by Christopher Millard
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16/10/2008
Directors' Conflicts of Interest - A New Regime
by Natasha Lewis
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10/10/2008
SDLT on Lease Renewals - Casting Light on a Murky Area
by Jonathan Chapper ,Sophie Cattell
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09/10/2008
Patent settlements: will the European Commission follow in the FTC's footsteps ...?
by Helen Hopson ,Pat Treacy
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07/10/2008
A stick and carrot policy
by Jonathan Chapper
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02/10/2008
Age Discrimination and Enhanced Redundancy Schemes
by Clare Cruise ,Linda Farrell
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01/10/2008
Is European law COMPATible?
by Alan Johnson ,Jeremy Blum
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01/10/2008
Tackling counterfeits
by Alan Johnson ,Laura von Hertzen
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30/09/2008
Is an employee protected against discrimination which takes place abroad?
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30/09/2008
Is a 'no show' clause in an employment contract enforceable?
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30/09/2008
Competitive activity, the duty of fidelity and shareholder covenants
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30/09/2008
Compulsory retirement at 65 can be justified says the Advocate General
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30/09/2008
A reminder: recent extension to maternity/adoption rights
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22/09/2008
CIO Update: Consultation on the Draft Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations
by Charlotte Rigby
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22/09/2008
Online Retailing under review
by Helen Hopson
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17/09/2008
The Code for Leasing Business Premises: Managing your negotiations
by Teresa Edmund
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17/09/2008
VAT: Opting for change
by Sophie Cattell
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17/09/2008
Overage: Having your cake...
by Alexandra Lethbridge
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17/09/2008
The new price of debt: Can you afford it?
by Iain Redford
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17/09/2008
IMPORTANT Happy 5th Birthday SDLT!
by Jonathan Chapper
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17/09/2008
Deposits:  Whose money is it anyway?
by Sophie Cattell
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17/09/2008
IMPORTANT Energy Performance Certificates:  Significant extension to the rules from October 2008
by Heidi Pfleger
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11/09/2008
New Lease of Life for Database Right?
by Ewan Nettleton
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11/09/2008
Blogging - more slander than libel?
by Sam Tuxford
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11/09/2008
Defamation on Facebook: first case to reach trial
by Laura von Hertzen
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11/09/2008
Data breach is human rights breach, says European Court
by Ben Winslade
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11/09/2008
Social networking sites urged to stop burying Face in the Book
by Catriona MacLeod ,James Brunger
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11/09/2008
A pivotal adviser
by ,Sophie Cattell ,Teresa Edmund
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01/09/2008
Recent EPO decisions - August 2008
by Ewan Nettleton ,James Boon
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11/08/2008
UK Intellectual Property Office Sinks Embley Energy Patent
by Chris Moran
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11/08/2008
Limiting Auditors' Liability - Some Practical Tips for Listed Companies
by Natasha Lewis
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11/08/2008
Accountability for P2P File Sharing
by Sam Tuxford
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11/08/2008
House of Lords Rules on Disclosure of Anonymised Personal Data
by Helen Rose
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01/08/2008
The Knives are out
by Brian Cordery ,Jeremy Blum
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01/08/2008
Generic companies have a bad hair day in the Court of Appeal
by Alan Johnson ,Gregory Bacon
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01/08/2008
Final push for a European Patents Court
by Alan Johnson ,Jeremy Blum
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