World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law 2018 Report
The World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law 2018 report is now finalized and available online. The fifth edition in a series of biennial reports, the publication measures gender equality in the law across 189 economies. It identifies legal obstacles to women who engage in economic activity around the world, encourages the reform of discriminatory laws, …
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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Russia) LLP acts for OOO Double against Vkontakte
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Russia) LLP is acting for Skolkovo resident OOO Double in a dispute with VKontakte over the Client’s use of public data from the social network in a search engine manner. The Double Data software involved was developed by our Client on the basis of its own big data search, storage and …
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The Impacts of the New Issued Regulation regarding IP Export
The Impacts of the New Issued Regulation regarding IP Export
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The Impacts of the New Issued Regulation regarding IP Export
New Law on LLCs in Ukraine
The Law of Ukraine On the Limited Liability Companies and Additional Liability Companies passed on 6 February 2018 shall come into force on 17 June 2018. The Law is a positive sign for doing business in Ukraine as it introduces significant changes and innovations in the legal regulation of the establishment and activities of limited …
The Impacts of the New Issued Regulation regarding IP Export
According to WIPO’s information, China has overtaken Japan to claim the second place as a source of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications in the passed year. In 2017, U.S.-based applicants numbered 56,624 PCT, followed by China (48,882) and Japan (48,208). Another positive statistics comes from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, which reveals the volume …
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[South Korea] Amendment to Unfair Competition Law
A bill to amend the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act (the “UCPA”) was promulgated on April 17, 2018, and is scheduled to take effect on July 18, 2018. The bill introduces significant amendments to the UCPA, namely stipulating store interior designs as business marks and making the unauthorized use of “ideas” an …
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Procuring Infrastructure PPPs 2018
The World Bank Group’s Procuring Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships 2018 report is now finalized and available online. The report compiles best practices and offers support to governments around the world to improve the quality of their regulations and to better deliver infrastructure service through public-private partnerships (PPPs).
[South Korea] Location information law amended to ease requirement for tracking of objects
Under changes to Location Information Act, to take effect in October 2018, businesses will be allowed to track goods after obtaining registration instead of license.
[South Korea] Amendments to Korean telecom license framework taking shape
Legislators have put forward an advanced draft of amendments to the Telecommunications Business Act, Korea’s main telecom statute. The draft amendments, proposed on March 29, 2018, would finalize changes anticipated since August 2017, so as to relax license requirements and foreign ownership restrictions for telecom carriers. Amendments seem likely to pass within 2018, with effect …
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