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Intellectual property

Queen's Speech bill aims to bring gene-edited plants and animals to market

The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill seeks to simplify the regulatory regime for precision-bred plants and animals

Energy and Utilities

Energy Security Bill proposed in Queen's Speech

The UK government has proposed new legislation intended to ensure the security and decarbonisation of the UK's energy supply

Employment and pensions

Employment Law Coffee Break | Government exclusivity clauses, employee social media protection, and incentives spotlight

Welcome to this week's Coffee Break looking at exclusivity clauses, protecting social media accounts and changing incentives to reflect new
Life Sciences and Healthcare

New WTO Covid-19 vaccine IP waiver proposed

A new vaccine IP waiver proposal has been published by the WTO Director-General following informal negotiations between the EU, India

Urban Mobility

Transparency and compliance pave way for mobility as a service

The integrated model for urban transport raises legal and regulatory questions around privacy, competition, contracts, policy and more
Decarbonisation

Net zero infrastructure: Reducing operational carbon in UK building stock

What measures are the UK government taking to tackle the problem of operational carbon in the built environment and what
Intellectual property

CJEU rejects Poland's challenge to the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive Article 17

CJEU Grand Chamber find the safeguards of the provision strike a fair balance between freedom of expression and information, and

Regulatory and compliance

The Queen's Speech – what not to expect: Employment Bill, audit reform, and digital markets enforcement

As speculation mounts about what the UK government's legislative programme will contain, we consider some of the proposals that are
Energy and Utilities

The Energy Transition | Extension of Energy Intensive Industries Compensation

This week we look at the government's plan to extend the Energy Intensive Industries Compensation Scheme, Innovatium's launch of an
Employment and pensions

Employment Law Coffee Break | Volunteers and redundancy, oral evidence from overseas and privacy and investigations

Welcome to our latest Coffee Break in which we look at the latest legal and practical developments impacting employers.
Intellectual property

Russia Retaliates Against Sanctions by Curtailing Foreign Owners’ IP rights

The Russian government has responded to western sanctions with new legislation designed to undermine the intellectual prop­erty (IP) rights of

Employment and pensions

Employee Incentives Update | May 2022

In this edition of our Employee Incentives Update, we focus on some important dates - including the 6 July 2022