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The Guidelines Governing Disclosure of Information by Franchisors were first
promulgated by the Fair Trade Commission in 1999.
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Under Taiwan’s patent law, an invention must not be published before a patent
application is filed in order for it to be patentable.
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According to the Companies Act, “in convening a meeting of the Board of Directors,
a notice setting forth therein the subject(s) to be discussed at the meeting shall be
given to each Director and Supervisor no later than 7 days prior to the scheduled
meeting date.
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The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) recently completed a review of several copyright public performance royalty rates set by copyright collective management organizations (CMOs).
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In the December/January 2011 issue, we reported that an amendment to the Securities and Exchange
Law was adopted to request listing companies establishing compensation committees. And, under the
authorization of the Law, qualifications of the members and the competence of the compensation
committee will be promulgated by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), the financial
regulator in Taiwan.
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to Enable Collection of Sensitive Personal Data
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In 2009 the government proposed amendments to the Company Law (the Law) and on
January 3 2011, the Economic Committee of Legislative Yuan passed the first reading of
the amendments. The main points are summarised below.
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The codified Taiwan Company Law constitutes the major regime of Taiwan corporate law
and systematically covers matters from establishment, management and audit structure,
accounting, merger and split-up to dissolution and liquidation.
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On 21st April 2009, in light of the increase in online copyright infringement in recent
years, the Legislative Yuan completed the third and final reading of the Internet
Service Provider (ISP) Liability Limitation Bill, which amends the Copyright Act to
strengthen the protection of copyrighted materials on the Internet.
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In order to harmonise Taiwan’s practice further with international patent prosecution
practice, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) recently completed an
amendment to the Procedural Examination Guidelines. The amendment focuses on
how to determine the filing date of a patent application.
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International conference entitled «International Commercial Arbitration in Ukraine and the World: yesterday, today, tomorrow», dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the ICAC at the UCCI.
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The Qatar Law Forum
is a three-day gathering in Doha of invited leaders in law from around
the world, held under the patronage of His Highness the Emir of the
State of Qatar.
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Olympic medallists Roger Black, MBE and Steve Backley, OBE will be the VIP speakers at an
Olympic-themed event hosted by International Law Firm, Hassans. The event will take place
in the run up to the London Olympics, on the 12th July, at the Khaima at the Rock Hotel.
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Sayenko Kharenko acted as legal counsel to the lenders in the course of restructuring of financial obligations of “Potok8” (former Mirax Group), one of the leading Russian construction and development companies, under the outstanding USD 180 million credit linked notes.
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Theta Capital Pte. Ltd., a unit of property developer PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk (LPKR) has on 9 May 2012 launched the issue of US$150 million senior notes, to be used for (a) the development of new retail malls, hospitals and large scale integrated development and (b) working capital requirements and general corporate purpose . The notes will be guaranteed by LPKR and its subsidiaries. Citigroup and Deutsche Bank were joint global coordinators and lead managers in the issuance.
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Public and Employment Law barristers from 11KBW will tackle the big questions in local authority law for Wales. They will look at what’s happening in legislation and case law across a number of key
areas, and what it means for authorities, their in-house legal teams and advisers.
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On 30 April 2012 representatives of GRATA Law Firm (Finance and Securities Department) took part in internal legal seminar held by JSC DB Sberbank.
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22 May 2012. Senior Associate of International law firm Integrites in his speech at Ukrainian M&A Congress touched upon the current situation and prospects of Ukrainian market of mergers and acquisitions, particularly M&A deals in Ukraine in a comparative perspective and the most common deal breakers.
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The “11KBW strollers” were out in force to take part in the London Legal Walk raising around £2,000 for London Legal Support Trust, London Legal Support Trust, the Free Representation Unit and the Bar Pro Bono Unit.
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UNICREDIT TIRIAC BANK S.A. ON THE FINANCING OF A RENEWABLE ENERGY BIOMASS PLANT IN ROMANIA