Software and patents in Europe

The computer program exclusion from Article 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) proved impossible to uphold as industry moved over to digital technology, and the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO) felt emboldened to circumvent the EPC in Vicom by creating ...

Derecho europeo de la competencia

prohibiciones antitrust, control de las concentraciones y procedimientos de aplicación

Este libro ofrece una organización nueva y coherente del sistema europeo de defensa de la competencia que tiene en cuenta no sólo los aspectos relativos a la interpretación de los arts. 81 y 82 TCE, sino también los aspectos procedimentales del Reglamento 1/03. En ...

La contratación del Agente Comercial en España y dentro de la UE

comentarios legales y prácticos. Formularios

Esta obra tiene por objeto analizar el tratamiento jurídico de la Directiva 86/653/CEE relativa a la coordinación de los derechos de los Estados miembros en lo referente a los Agentes Comerciales, independientes en los principales países de Unión Europea, así como la incidencia ...

Concise european patent Law

In our technological society patent law plays a central role as an incentive for the development and marketing of new technologies in many fields of business. The number of patent applications continues to grow considerably every year. International and European instruments have been implemented and ...

Competition and State Aid

an analysis of the EC practice

What are the real issues underlying the Commission#s extensive application of Article 87 EC in relation to State aid schemes? In this important new interpretation of the relation of State aid to EU inter-state competition, nine prominent Italian jurists of Santa Maria law firm ...

Integración europea y diferencias comerciales en la OMC

Esta monografía analiza la participación de la Comunidad Europea junto a sus Estados miembros en el Sistema de Solución de Diferencias de la OMC. No existe hasta el momento regulación convencional o comunitaria alguna sobre las prerrogativas y obligaciones que corresponden a la Comunidad o ...

European competition Law annual 2006

enforcement of prohibition of cartels

This is the eleventh in the series on EU Competition Law and Policy produced by the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. The volume reproduces the materials of the roundtable debate which examined the enforcement of the prohibition on cartels. The ...

Regulation of subsidies and state aids in WTO and EC Law

Conflicts in international trade Law

Regulating subsidies in international trade is crucial to the efficient and equitable allocation of resources and ultimately to global welfare. Much of the serious instability that persists in today's interdependent world may be traced to government interventions that dilute or defy such regulation. In ...

Guide to european company Laws

The Guide to European Company Laws offers practitioners a simple route to a greater understanding of company law in the EU. You will find an explanation of general principles, answers to practical questions, plus comparative commentary clearly set out for each country so that multi- ...

Civil procedure used for enforcement of EC competition Law by the english, french and german Civil Courts

European competition law has been increasingly subject to two complementary forces: decentralisation and harmonisation. In the course of this process, certain procedural elements have come to the fore as constituting impediments to the enforcement of Articles 81 and 82 EC in terms of actions for ...

Code europeen des contrats

codice europeo dei contrati= European contract code= europäiches vertragsgesetzbuch= Código europeo de contratos. Livre deuxieme

Il volume contiene il Titolo primo - sulla vendita e i contratti collaterali (vendita con riserva di gradimento, a prova e su campione; vendita con riserva di proprietà; leasing; vendita con patto di riscatto; contratto estimatorio; somministrazione; vendita con patto di esclusiva; concessione di vendita; franchising ...

I Congreso Nacional de Derecho Mercantil

veinte años de España en la Unión Europea. Balance y perspectivas

La solidez del Derecho Mercantil significa afirmar el triunfo de la disciplina en la configuración y consolidación de la Unión Europea. Siendo el ordenamiento mercantil el núcleo esencial en torno al cual se articula el denominado Derecho europeo. Desde el punto de vista cuantitativo el ...

Principios de Derecho contractual europeo. Parte III

(Los trabajos de la "Comisión de Derecho contractual europeo")

La tercera parte de los Principios de Derecho contractual europeo supone la culminación de los trabajos llevados a cabo por la Comisión presidida por el profesor Ole Lando y permite disponer de un material normativo del mayor interés para configurar en el futuro un Derecho ...

Interpretation of patents in Europe

application of Article 69 EPC

Eds. Jochen Pagenberg, William R. Cornish. The book contains a collection of national reports on patent interpretation in infringement proceedings from the most important patent litigation countries in Europe. Prominent patent specialists of each country, namely academics, judges and patent litigators have written the reports ...

European merger control

do we need an efficiency defence?

During its first fifteen years, the EUs merger control system, unlike most others in the world, offered only minimal possibilities for taking efficiency gains into account as a mitigating factor that might offset the anti-competitive effects of a merger. This book examines the background to ...

The EC competition Law on technology licensing

This work provides a complete guide to EC technology licensing law from a competition law perspective. The focus is the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER), in force from May 2004, but this new law is put into context by explanation of the complexities of ...

EC public procurement

case Law and regulation

Public procurement represents a specialist yet important area of practice in the European and international business and commercial legal environment. This book offers an inclusive, coherent and practical analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence, with the principal focus on the case law of the ...

EU competition Law

general principles

"EU Competition Law: General Principles" provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of competition law in the European Union. It includes up-to-date and detailed analysis of core Treaty articles and case law on the fundamental principles affecting commercial agreements, abuse of dominant position and state involvement and ...

European corporate Law

Corporate lawyers in Europe are faced with tremendous challenges and opportunities resulting from a number of fast-paced developments in EU company law. Restrictions on the establishment of companies have been abolished. Legal practitioners need to catch up on the fundamentals of the corporate laws of ...

The boundaries of EC competition Law

The scope of article 81

This monograph addresses two problems surrounding the interpretation and application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty - what is competition and how does Article 81 ensure that competition is protected. After over 40 years of application and a period of modernisation, decentralisation, and reflection, it ...