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Retail and Consumer

Polish watchdog investigates practices in the fast-moving consumer goods sector

Businesses face new legal challenges over dark patterns practices and need to take notice of consumer protection regulations
Retail and Consumer

Supermarket clash underscores need for clarity from UK Supreme Court on trade mark bad faith

Bad faith claim succeeded in ongoing dispute but trade mark and copyright infringement and passing off still found

Life Sciences and Healthcare

Use of trade mark for food supplements does not amount to genuine use for pharma products

Food supplements are not considered as a sub-set of pharmaceutical products in class 5 for proving genuine trade mark use
Tax

HMRC consults on proposals to change the tax treatment of lending and staking tokens in the UK

Changing the tax treatment of decentralised finance lending and staking of cryptoassets could bring welcome certainty for VC and PE

Real estate

UK Supreme Court rules in favour of ratepayer in charity business rates dispute

Unanimous decision upheld Court of Appeal judgment entitling Nuffield Health to non-domestic rates relief for charities
Tax

Spain looks to enact 15% minimum global tax for large multinationals in the EU

Directive requires transposition of rules into domestic law by end of 2023 but Spain may struggle to meet the deadline
Artificial intelligence

What is the status of EU, UK and international regulation of artificial intelligence?

The European Parliament vote this week on AI laws comes amid extensive international discussion on its future regulation

Tax

Navigating Dutch tax and financial regulatory laws on NFTs

The tax and financial regulatory landscape of non-fungible tokens is rapidly evolving, with the impact of MiCAR on the horizon
Energy and Utilities

Smart Power | Exiting O&M agreements, grid constraints and managing supply chain risk

Welcome to the latest edition of Smart Power, Osborne Clarke's specialist service for asset managers within the green energy sector