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  • Working patents - who can do it?

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Co-owners - how can they work the patented invention? In Henry Brothers (Magerfeld) -v- Ministry of Defence the Court considered the rights of co-owners under Section 36(2) Patents Act 1997 which provides...

  • Environment: Air quality

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    The first new ambient air quality limit values under the 1996 Framework Directive on Ambient Air Quality Assessment and Management have been proposed for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, lead and particulates....

  • Is digging a trench or doing other minor works sufficient to save a planning permission from expiring?

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    The point has come before the courts on various occasions and did so again in the case of R v Arfon Borough Council, ex p Walton Commercial Group Ltd (1997). The decision reaffirms a line of earlier decisions...

  • Does an alteration to a building visible from above but not from surrounding streets and buildings need planning permission?

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    This was the point considered recently in Burroughs Day v Bristol City Council where certain roof alterations, whilst plainly affecting the exterior of the building, were not visible from the streets...

  • Employment and pensions: Consultation on works councils

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    The Commission is consulting trade unions and employers groups on whether new EC legislation is necessary to ensure that employees are properly informed and consulted in the event of transfers and collective...

  • Environmental Assessment 1

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    In March the EU adopted a new directive on environmental assessments which Member States have until March 1999 to implement. Amongst other things, it adds 19 types of projects to the list of those where...

  • Competition and trade law: Draft notice on relevant market

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    The Commission has published a draft Notice explaining how it applies the concept of relevant product and geographic markets for the purposes of EC competition law. It is first necessary to identify what...

  • Employment and pensions: Italy lifts border restrictions

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Italy has lifted all border restrictions on airline passengers travelling to and from France, Germany, Portugal, the Benelux countries and Spain. These countries are signatories of the Schengen Accord,...

  • Statements of case in patent revocation proceedings

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Statements of case in patent revocation proceedings, but still only exceptionally This was a petition to revoke Riker Laboratories Inc's patent. The petitioner applied to the Court under Order 18 Rule...

  • Competition and trade law: Woodpulp decision reviewed

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Main contacts: Richard Taylor, David Marks, Sue Hankey and Richard Eccles (Brussels) Woodpulp decision reviewed The Court of First Instance (CFI) has overruled a 1984 Decision of the Commission. The Commission...

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