The UK government has published a series of four technical notices on intellectual property in the event of the UK leaving the EU on 29 March 2019 without an agreement (a ‘no deal Brexit’). The technical notices were published on 24 September 2018 and cover: Trade marks and designs; Patents; Copyright; and Exhaustion of intellectual property rights. The notices set out the UK government’s
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Efforts to coordinate and enhance cybersecurity across the European Union (“EU”) have taken a step forward with the publication on 19 July 2016 of the new Network and Information Security Directive (2016/1148/EU) (the “Directive”) in the Official Journal of the European Union. Member States will have until 9 May 2018 to transpose the Directive into their national laws.
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