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COVID-19 advice for corporate occupiers
16 June 2021Commercial tenants – whether occupying offices, retail premises, industrial units or other property - face potentially existential questions arising out of their landlord and tenant relations, how to manage cashflow and outgoings as revenues dry up, premises shut down and uncertainty reigns.
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Implying terms into commercial contracts impacted by COVID-19
31 March 2020We live and work in unprecedented times. The health of the population is rightly the priority, but it is abundantly clear that steps taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are having a very significant impact on the ability of businesses to fulfil obligations in commercial contracts.
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Lewis Silkin has advised new client Artelia Group on its acquisition of quantity surveying practice Austin Newport Group
26 March 2020Lewis Silkin has advised new client Artelia Group, an international, multidisciplinary consultancy, engineering and project management group, on its acquisition of Austin Newport Group, specialised in chartered quantity surveying, project management contracting and recovery of damaged historic buildings.
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Coronavirus creating uncertainty for landlords
13 March 2020Covid-19 (or the coronavirus as it is more commonly known) has now been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organisation.
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Brands and IP newsnotes - issue 6
12 October 2017Welcome to the 6th edition of our Brands & IP newsnotes put together to bring you the latest, and most interesting legal developments affecting intellectual property law. In this issue we cover; battlegrounds on Amazon listings, whether prestigious brands can prevent their resellers from selling online, the EU's position paper on IP rights, an quick guide on rights for designs, and trade mark infringements.
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European Medicines Agency produces Q&A document on impact of Brexit for MA holders
24 July 2017As the UK prepares to leave the EU, the holders of marketing authorisations for human or veterinary centrally approved need to ensure that that they take appropriate steps to ensure that they comply with the establishment requirements in the EU/EEA.
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Squeezed out of validity and into the jurisdiction
13 July 2017UCB licensed Chugai rights to its tocilizumab patents. The licence contained an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of the English courts. Only one US patent remained in force. Chugai wanted a declaration that its tocilizumab products (sold only in the US) fell outside of the scope of the last patent and accordingly no royalty payments were due under the licence.
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Sandoz & Hexal v Searle & Janssen Sciences Ireland: What is the formula for patent extensions?
13 July 2017The UK High Court has held that a pharmaceutical product claimed only within a Markush formula and not expressly referred to in the patent was protected by the patent for the purposes of obtaining a Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC).
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UPC – UK moves forward whilst Germany stalls
13 July 2017The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is intended to provide a regional forum resolve patent disputes. UPC decisions will have effect in all 25 states participating in the UPC, providing a single forum to resolve disputes.
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Brands and IP newsnotes - issue 5
27 June 2017Welcome to the 5th edition of our Brands & IP newsnotes put together to bring you the latest, and most interesting legal developments affecting intellectual property law. In this issue we cover; the potential pitfalls of social media, design by artificial intelligence, interesting trade mark applications and cases, an update on the UPC, and the importance of protecting trade secrets.
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Beware of handing matters over to the court’s discretion
16 June 2017How often in negotiations do parties “duck” issues deemed “too difficult” and try to cope with them by adopting “reasonable” (or other) “endeavours” obligations?
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Warranty and Indemnity Insurance – the what, why and how of it?
13 June 2017Whilst the use of W&I Insurance in M&A transactions has been available for some time, its use has increased dramatically in the past few years, particularly in the technology, real estate and manufacturing sectors.
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Will you pass the red face test? - Naming and shaming of late payers has now arrived
09 May 2017From 6 April this year, all large UK companies (and limited liability partnerships) are now subject to a new regime which requires them to publish, on a Government website, detailed reports on their supplier payment policies and practices. The Regulations are designed to create public transparency of large businesses’ payment policies and practices, primarily for the benefit of small and medium-sized suppliers.
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Helping to shape the Global Driverless Revolution
03 May 2017In this article, we look at the road ahead for autonomous vehicles.
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CMA offers cash for whistleblowers
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Test for ‘old-style’ transfer of economic entity requires multifactorial approach
08 March 2017The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has ruled that an employment tribunal, in finding that the termination of a franchise agreement gave rise to a relevant transfer under TUPE, made the mistake of focusing on one particular factor and failing to adopt a multifactorial approach assessing all the relevant circumstances.
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Pimlico Plumbers are workers not self-employed
14 February 2017In the latest development in a series of cases on employment status, the Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by Pimlico Plumbers and found that a “self-employed” plumber should have been classed a worker.
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There's something under my bed...
19 January 2017Three companies that supply drawer parts to bed and other furniture retailers have admitted breaching competition law by sharing commercially sensitive information, agreeing not to undercut each other and sharing out their customers. One of the companies avoided paying a fine under the CMA’s leniency policy, but the other two companies have agreed to pay fines totalling £2.8 million.
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Newsflash: Water tank manufacturers fined for breaching competition law
19 December 2016The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has today issued a decision against a number of suppliers of water tanks used in sprinkler systems, finding that the suppliers had infringed competition law by (among other things) agreeing to fix prices, rigging tender bids as well as sharing commercially sensitive information.