16 Aug
Member News

Facilitating patent applications: no formal requirements for transfer of priority rights

By Anne Marie Verschuur |Tanguy de Haan | Vincent Wellens | Jeroen Boelens | NautaDutilh Recently the Court of Appeal of The Hague handed down an important decision on the issue of the transfer of priority rights under the European Patent Convention ("EPC"), which is a first in the Netherlands. In its decision, the Court answered the fundamental question whether priority rights can be assigned in the affirmative and ruled that no formal requirements should be imposed on the transfer thereof. The case...

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16 Aug
Member News

Digital Planning Podcast: Exploring Blockchain Technology

The Digital Planning Podcast is designed to educate individuals about all things digital in connection with estate planning, business planning, and estate administration. Your hosts, attorneys Jennifer Zegel of Kleinbard LLC, Ross Bruch of EstateGenie, and Justin Brown of Pepper Hamilton, will guide you through the digital world and aim to keep you informed of developments and updates in this ever-changing space.   In part one of our three-part series exploring blockchain technology, Jen, Ross and Justin discuss the basic concept of a public blockchain network and the pros and...

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15 Aug
Member News

USTR Announces That Sec. 301, List 4, Tariffs Are Effective As Of The Date Of Entry

On August 15, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that Sec. 301 tariffs of an additional 10% ad valorem on Chinese-origin goods will be applied based on the date of entry. Thus, no grace period has been provided for goods on the water. Accordingly, the additional 10% tariff will apply to List 4A products entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after September 1, 2019. List 4A products are enumerated HERE The additional 10% tariff will apply to...

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15 Aug
Member News

Boris Johnson: The last of the Mohicans

By Georges Ugeux, Chairman and CEO, Galileo Global Advisors The UK has a new Prime Minister who shares this supremacy and arrogant ideology,  inheriting the difficult task of realizing (some form of) Brexit. Who is he? Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, born in New York City’s Upper East Side, is an Oxfordian aristocrat, a political journalist turned politician. A hard-core politician who pretends to represent the people against politicians. He is probably one of the last believers in the old Imperial...

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14 Aug
Member News

Dealing with the Baggage of Language Immersion: A Closer Look at How Acculturation Aptitude can Improve Language Learning

By Justin Velten, President, Go Culture International It was completely ridiculous the first time I heard it. Of course there is a whole community of dog owners who purchase entire wardrobes of clothes for their best friends, but this was taking it to an uncharted level. The first time a colleague told me she put her anxious little dog in a tight-fitting jacket to calm him down during thunderstorms, I had to fight back the urge to reach for my pepper...

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14 Aug
Chapter News

France : Financial System Stability Assessment

Important institutional and policy changes have taken place since the 2012 FSAP. At the national level, the authorities have strengthened the macroprudential framework by establishing the High Council for Financial Stability (HCSF), enhanced monitoring of financial stability risks, prepared to manage the Brexit fall-out, introduced macroprudential measures, and taken various financial reform measures included in Loi PACTE—Action Plan for Business Growth and Transformation—and initiatives on digital finance, crypto-assets, green finance, and combating cyber risk. At the European level, significant...

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14 Aug
Member News

NY State Bans Discrimination Based on Religious Attire, Clothing, and Facial Hair

By Wendy Lario and Courteney Lario | Greenberg Traurig, LLP. On August 9, 2019, New York state amended its Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) to expressly include the workplace protection of religious attire, clothing, and facial hair. The law becomes effective in sixty (60) days, on October 8, 2019. While religious discrimination has long been outlawed under both state and federal law, this amendment makes clear that the definition of religion in New York state’s existing anti-discrimination statute includes bias against any...

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13 Aug
Member News

New York Changes the Landscape of State Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Litigation

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed yesterday Senate Bill S6577/Assembly Bill 8421, a law that changes the landscape of workplace discrimination and harassment litigation in New York. The law applies to all New York employers and even addresses discrimination against independent contractors. Among other significant changes highlighted in our update, the new law: Removes the requirement that individuals prove that harassment was severe or pervasive Opens the door for employers to be held liable in some cases where an individual...

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12 Aug
Brexit News, Chapter News

UK has Committed Itself to Radically Contradictory Positions on Brexit and The Belfast Agreement

By John Bruton, former Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) WILL UK BE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE MORE EASILY WITH EUROPE IF IT BINS THE WITHDRAWAL TREATY? The new UK Foreign Secretary , Dominic Raab, has claimed on Radio 4 that the UK would find it “easier” to negotiate  a good long term deal with Brussels , if it had first crashed out of the EU , than if it ratified the Withdrawal Treaty.  Doing this would mean binning the entire content the Withdrawal Treaty,...

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12 Aug
Chapter News

International community agrees on a road map for resolving the tax challenges arising from digitalisation of the economy

The international community has agreed on a road map for resolving the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy, and committed to continue working toward a consensus-based long-term solution by the end of 2020, the OECD announced. The 129 members of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) adopted a Programme of Work laying out a process for reaching a new global agreement for taxing multinational enterprises. The document, which calls for intensifying international discussions around two...

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