Following a relatively short time after the extraordinary parliamentary elections in Croatia, the new Government headed by prime minister Andrej Plenković proposed a comprehensive reform of the Croatian tax system, a tax reform that the minister of finance, Zdravko Marić, has been […]

The issue of inventions created by employees of private or public entities, previously regulated in Romania by Law No. 64/1991 of October 11, 1991 on Patents (Romanian Patent Act), is now regulated by a separate act – Law 83/2014 on Employee Inventions […]

Following the recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja Gonzalez (C-131/12), which basically stated that search engine providers are obliged to remove links to personal information not longer relevant […]

In an important ruling rendered on 13th May 2014 in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja Gonzalez (C-131/12), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)  found that, if a search is made on the basis of a person’s name, […]

In a decision rendered on 4th February 2014 in Culturing Stem Cells/TECHNION (T-2221/10), the EPO’s Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.08 (TBA) refused the patentability of an invention related to maintenance of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in an undifferentiated state by the […]

Bitcoin is regularly giving headaches to financial regulators all over the globe. As the legislature in most countries, if not all, is customarily lagging behind the technology, one of the most intriguing questions related to Bitcoin, legally speaking, is can it be […]