The 2014 Stability Law has dealt with the revaluation of companies’ assets including intangible assets such as trademarks, patents and know how. Often intangible assets, even if maintaining an economic value, are not accounted since they are already amortized. As a consequence, the revaluation, if possible, is an important instrument of optimization of the fiscal […]
A meeting took place in recent days in Rome at the headquarters of the Data Protection Authority between Antonello Soro, Chairman of the Authority, and Frank La Rue, special rapporteur of the United Nations for the promotion and protection of freedom of expression. The meeting is prior to the official visit that La Rue will […]
New Zealand has approved a law which bans software patents. The proposal to abolish this type of patents dating back to 2008 and only now has been approved by parliament after a long debate. Even if the question relates to a distant country we can not remain indifferent. Since many years there’s a battle between […]
The US Supreme Court has issued an important decision (SupremeCourtUSA-Myriad) in the field of patentability of the human genome. The object of the legal action was a patent of Myriad, a company known for being the exclusive owner of the tests that diagnose the percentage of probability that a woman has to be subject to […]
April 26th is World Intellectual Property Day, promoted by WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization. The theme...
