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Wednesday, 29 July, 2020

Privacy Shield’s invalidation: guide on how to act when transferring international data to the US

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Court of Justice of the European Union invalidates “Privacy Shield” and expresses reservations towards Standard Contract Clauses We recently became aware of the Judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter “CJEU”) dated July 16, 2020, in Case C-311/18 Facebook Ireland v. Schrems, which invalidated the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 of […]

Tuesday, 9 June, 2020

International challenges for environment- World Environment Day

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World Environment Day was established by the United Nations (UN) in its resolution (A/RES/2994 (XXVII)1 of 15 December 1977. It has been celebrated since 1974 on 5 June each year, the date on which the Stockholm Conference began in 1972, whose central theme was the Environment, and two days after Environment Day the UN General […]

Tuesday, 12 May, 2020

Will COVID-19 Vaccines Be Subject to Compulsory Patent Licenses?

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This article was originally published by Law.Com. Granting patents in favor of a specific company or organization could undermine the development and wide-scale distribution of virus treatments, lawyers say. As the COVID-19 virus permeates more corners of the world, lawyers anticipate an increase in litigation related to the scope of patents for treatments and vaccines. […]