house of commons

Scrutiny Committee: red-line the unitary patent proposals (Part II)

March 22, 2012 08:58

To some, this bifurcation diagram is a whole lot prettier than what bifurcation of patent litigation can end up looking like.... The bifurcation issue Besides Articles 6 to 8, the issue that can divide some European patent practitioners the most is the issue of bifurcation. During the last...

Scrutiny Committee: red-line the unitary patent proposals (Part I)

March 22, 2012 08:52

The AmeriKat pestering her IT department to make her computer work this week... After a couple desperate "meows" over the phone to her IT department last week, the AmeriKat finally was able to listen to the latest, but improbable, last round of the House of Common's European Scrutiny Committee's...

Some Common Sense at Bill C-32 Committee Hearings

Howard Knopf
November 23, 2010 17:30

Sarah Schmidt is reporting that the C-32 Legislative Committee will meet only for four hours a week, not the 16 hours suggested by the Government members. This means that that the Bill cannot get through the House of Commons until well into next year. The reports that the Government intended to...

UK budget cuts may lead to closing of nanotech centres

August 04, 2010 22:43

The UK's nanotech centres, receipients of GBP 50 million (roughly about 79.5 million dollars) under the previous Labour Party government, may become victims of the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government's plans to reduce the UK budget deficit. Appearing before the House of Commons...

Budget 2010 - tax planning

Cathy Corns
March 15, 2010 10:53

We know the tax rates for this year almost certainly - we are confident of this at least until Budget Day (24th March).