Of propagation and prerogatives: IP litigation goes to seed
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Cats have generally been more interestedin plants than plants are in cats ... Today Advocate General Jaaskinen delivered his Opinion in a rare Community plant variety case, Case C‑56/11 Raiffeisen Waren-Zentrale Rhein-Main eG v Saatgut-Treuhandver...
The Closer
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ROUND-UP The FT’s markets round-up: “Persisting concerns about Europe’s debt crisis and waning global growth weighed on markets and delivered another session that...
Osborne presented with GCSE maths book before Mansion House speech
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The picture above shows the moment when George Osborne was presented with a GCSE maths book — while Bank of England governor Mervyn King looked on. The stunt was performed by satirist Heydon Prowse and will likely be featured in his new BBC Th...
Stocks Trade Higher As Spain Gets Rating Agency Downgrade
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Financial Market report for June 14, 2012 Mike Mish Shedlock reports Spanish 10-Year Bond Yield Hits 6.96%, A New Euro-Era High; 2-Year Bond Yield Hits 5.19% A big selloff in Spanish government bonds is underway this morning at 3:15AM central. Con...
I want a job and I want it now: the video
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Surfing on the S&D group in the European Parliament page on Facebook, I found this video summarizing the two half-days I spend in Brussels in the framework of the conference about youth employment, the 6th and 7th of June. A … Continue read...
A too independent Première Dame?
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This was the political piece of information of these previous days in France. Valérie Trierweiler, companion of the French president, officially backed Olivier Falorni, candidate to the legislative elections at La Rochelle, and direct challenger of...
Her Majesty’s LTRO?
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Actually, maybe not the best analogy. Bank of England governor Mervyn King did announce the activation of cheap, long-term funding for UK banks against wide collateral in his...
F-O-M-C sitting in a tree….
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Ahead of next week’s FOMC meeting, and as the G20 tries to preemptively assuage global markets with the kind of enthusiastically meaningless statements in which it specialises…...
“Co-ordinated action to provide liquidity”
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Markets were taking that line as not the existing swap lines a bullishly ambiguous signal as we headed into the close at pixel time:The full Reuters story on central banks and the G20,...
Prime and Finance ministers need to keep their speech measured
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Firstly the Austrian Finance Minister on Italy, then Finnish Prime Minister on Spain, today the Slovak Prime Minister on Greece. Three diplomatic falls in three days. This is bad score, critically bad.I think all European Ministers should take a deep...
Nations that do not learn from their history are bound to relive it.
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History has a way of repeating itself. Once again the nations of Europe are about to embark in an unprecedented process of integration, just like they did after the 2nd World War, and once again Britain chooses to remain on the side-lines, unable and...
Nations that do not learn from their history are bound to relive it.
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History has a way of repeating itself. Once again the nations of Europe are about to embark in an unprecedented process of integration, just like they did after the 2nd World War, and once again Britain chooses to remain on the side-lines, unable and...
Maiden Lane loans repaid
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Click the image above for the NY Fed’s announcement…… and here’s a bonus Maiden Lane III before-and-after chart from CreditSights — the portfolio when it was created,...
Six-Month REACH Deadline is June 19th
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The six-month deadline for 20 chemical substances that were added to the Candidate List in December 2011 is approaching.Producers and importers of articles containing any of these 20 substances that they need to send their notifications to ECHA by 19...
Blogs About Paris That Are Truly Meaningful And Helpful
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Like what most people say, falling in love with Paris is easy. The exquisite beauty of the city is simply what brings people from different sides of the world to the country. And what vacationers are just afraid of? This is the very thought of spendi...
"Purpose beyond Power"
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“Liberal democracies in the West today are struggling to avoid – and in doing so are exacerbating – a crisis of identity, which puts the existing social contract at risk and threatens their implosion.” (Source: Project Syndicate) Excellent an...
In spat, EU Parliament stops talks with EU Council
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By DON MELVIN BRUSSELS — Just as voices across Europe are calling for stronger governance in response to the financial crisis — a surer hand at the wheel — one branch of the EU said in a fit of pique Thursday that it was suspending cooperat...
Life in Bulgaria’s Montana
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VERY, very slowly an old lady with a walking stick creeps along the street. Sitting in the shade four more tell me that they have just been to the funeral of the youngest of their friends. She loved to sing at parties, they say. Three of the four hav...
Zone euro : pas de contrat social sans constitution
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Paris brandit les euro-bonds (obligations publiques européennes émises en euros) comme une figure symbolique de la solidarité de la zone euro. Il s’agit en effet de traiter ensemble le stock existant des dettes souveraines nationales et une...
“Placement of a Member State under legal protection”
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Amazing what sometimes comes out of the European Parliament.That’s an amendment from Jean-Paul Gauzès, Member of European Parliament, to the otherwise fairly sober draft...
Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy: General approach of the Council
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After my live-blogging Tuesday and Wednesday night, what was still missing were the actual documents containing the decisions of the Council. CFP Reform Watch has them. Interestingly, CFP Reform Watch have them even though they are not yet listed in...
France’s socialists and a fitting executive pay cap
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The French government this week announced plans to cap the salary of public sector chief executives at 450,000 euros per year. The decree, which will be released by the end of July assuming the socialists win a majority in the parliamentary election...
For Macedonian Media, A Pyrrhic Victory
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A deal to decriminalize libel in Macedonia comes at quite a cost...
Y con el rescate, díganme ¿cómo les va? ('How's that bailout workin' out for ya?')
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'Don't panic! Don't panic!' declare Spanish ministers as they hold an emergency cabinet meeting on the debt crisis. Can it have been only three days ago that the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, was boasting that the bailout was a triumph for the euro?
