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Some Notes About the Protection of the Essential Public Services User
David Falcão
Keywords Essential public services; electronic comunications; protection of the user; suspension of the service for non-payment; prescription; lapse.
Startups Funding Legal Regime
Joana Costa Lopes / Chen Chen
Keywords Startups; innovation; funding; crowdfunding; venture capital; Initial Coin Offerings; securities.
The lack of distinctive character of the trade mark and the protection against unfair commercial practices: in connection with the European Court of Justice judgment on the “three stripes” trade mark
Ana Clara Azevedo de Amorim
Keywords trade mark; declaration of invalidity; unfair commercial practices; confusion; competitors; consumers.
The use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in stock trading in a stock exchange environment: analysis under the light of the Brazilian legislation
Alexandre Ferreira de Assumpção Alves / Leonardo Renne Silva Teixeira
Keywords Distributed Ledger Technology; Stock Exchange; Blockchain; Stock trading; Stock post-trading.
Contemporary slavery in Brazil, its "names" and the dirty list: impacts/covenants and backspaces
Anne Gabriele Alves Guimarães / Isabele Bandeira de Moraes D’Angelo
Keywords Contemporary Slavery; Dirty list; Neoliberalism; Precariousness; Social dumping; Boycott.
Contracts ex machina: brief notes about the introductions of Blockchain technology and Smart Contracts
Delber Pinto Gomes
Keywords Smart Contracts; Blockchain; Financial Sector; Fintech; Contract Law; Commerce.
Council Regulation (EU) n.1259/2010: some considerations about applicable law to divorce and legal separation and party choice of law
Fernanda Muraro Bonatto
Keywords European International Private Law; European regulation Rome III; Divorce and legal separation; Private autonomy in family law
Ex post protection to false corporate governance statements
Ana Sílvia Falcão Mestre Efigénia
Keywords False statements; corporate governance; comply or explain; legal effect; ex post; soft law
Home banking: the allocation of losses due to computer fraud
Carolina França Barreira
Keywords Home banking; bank; computer fraud; phishing; access codes; payment services
Net neutrality and the internet access contract: contribution for the regulation of cyberspace
José Manuel Coelho Dias Fernandes
Keywords network neutrality; internet neutrality; internet access provider; zero rate; telecommunications law; information society; internet governance; cyberlaw; IT law; online equivalence; free speech; open internet
Pension reform in the European Union
Ana Sofia Carvalho
Keywords European Union; Pensions; Green and White Papers
Plant Patents in the European Union: Recent Developments
Mª Mercedes Curto Polo
Keywords
Breeders’ rights; Plant Patents; Biotechnological inventions; plant varieties; agricultural innovation.
Relations between Portuguese and E. U. law of the fixed-term employment contract
Francisco Liberal Fernandes
Keywords Directive 1999/70; framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded ETUC/UNICE/CEEP; scope of application; social policy; approximation of the national legislations; measures to prevent abuse of successive fixed-term employment contracts; prohibition of a reduction of the general level of protection
Securities Investment Companies for Promotion of the Economy: First Notes
João Nuno Barros
Keywords commercial companies; finance; investment.
Swedish legislation of Residential Tenancies: An Interaction between Collective Bargaining and Mandatory Regulation
Haymanot Baheru
Keywords
The elderly and the taxation of income in 2014
Ana Sofia Carvalho
Keywords IElderly; Taxation; Income; Tax benefits
The execution of unauthorised payment transactions and the payment service user protection under the legal framework governing the payment services and the electronic money
Patrícia Guerra
Keywords framework contract; payment instrument; payment service provider; payment service user; unauthorised payment transaction; liability.
The problem of technical standards essential patents and the effectiveness of FRAND license commitments
Fernando Carbajo Cascón
Keywords Standard Essential Patents (SEP); Antitrust Law; Intellectual Property; Licenses fair; reasonable and non discriminatory (FRAND); Patent Ambush; Patent Hold-Up.
The Proposal for a Directive on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the Competition Law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union
Filipa Daniela Couto Campos
Keywords Proposal for a Directive, antitrust, damages, violations, Competition, National Competition Authority
The Protection of Minority Shareholders in Listed Companies: from Mandatory Protection to the “Horizontal” Corporation
Mario Campobasso
Keywords Corporations; Listed companies; Minority protection; Special shares; Multiple voting rights; Shareholders’ meeting; Horizontal society