infonet-economy

Actes de la Journée de droit de la propriété intellectuelle, organisée à Genève le 2 février 2009, regroupant des contributions de Marianne Chappuis, François Gindrat, Ivan Cherpillod, Heijo Ruijsenaars/Pranvera Këllezi, Nick White et Henry Peter/Jacques de Werra

L'entrée en vigueur de la loi sur la FINMA, le 1er janvier 2009, a significativement modifié la procédure en matière d'offres publiques d'acquisition. Sa principale nouveauté permet aux actionnaires disposant d'une participation de 2% au moins dans la société visée de devenir partie à la procédure devant la Commission des OPA et devant les autorités de recours,...

Until 2009. the holding and transfer of securities held through banks and other custodians were governed by traditional legal principles applying to movable,tangible property. But operational and commercial trends in the securities and custody business, such as the intermediation and dematerialization of securities, had been challenging these legal foundations for quite some time....

In the information age, intellectual assets (such as trade secrets and music) are flowing across borders and between continents. However, legal hurdles may still negatively affect and prevent the smooth flow of these intellectual assets, as shown in the article. Even though the article analyses the issue from a European perspective with a view towards Asia (China and Japan), the...

In the global fight against biopiracy, one of the key issues is to prevent the grant and exploitation of patents on traditional knowledge and genetic resources by requiring that patent applicants for inventions involving traditional knowledge and genetic resources disclose the source of those resources and provide evidence that the prior informed consent of the local owners of such...