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Italy and Spain challenge plans to create unified EU patent protection system

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, France, Spain
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  • September 1 2011

Italy and Spain filed applications before the European Court of Justice in early June 2011, seeking to annul the EU Council’s Decision of 10 March 2011, which authorized cooperation among member states for the creation of unitary patent protection

France publishes decree requiring nanomaterial reporting in 2013

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • France
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  • March 15 2012

The French Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transportation and Housing has reportedly published a final decree requiring manufacturers, importers and distributors of nanomaterials, in addition to research laboratories and “professional users,” to submit to authorities an annual declaration about the quantities and use of nanoparticle substances or nanomaterials placed on the French market