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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
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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
Transmission of a good in exchange for a price and its conformity with the contract: a comment of Judgement of the CEU of 7 september 2017 (C-247/16, Schottelius)
Lídia Arnau Raventós
Keywords Sale of goods; supply of services; consumer.
Types and choice of procedures in the Angolan Public Procurement Law – a critical analysis
João Pacheco de Amorim
Keywords Angolan Public Procurement Law; Public procurement; General principles; Contractual procedure; Choice of procedure
Unfair Competition according to the case law of the Supreme Court of Justice: revisiting the subject of protected interests
Ana Clara Azevedo de Amorim
Keywords Unfair Competition; Supreme Court of Justice; dual protection; consumers; social model; functional interpretation.
Brief considerations on Regulation (EU) 2020/1783 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 25 of November of 2020, on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters
Elisabete Assunção
Keywords
European Private International Law; Regulation (EU) 2020/1783; taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters; digital system; videoconferencing; e-Codex platform.
Capacity to contract of the non-emancipated minors with special reference to the disabled
Alfredo Batuecas Caletrío
Keywords Minor of age; capacity to contract; disability.
MiCA and DeFi (“Proposal for a Regulation on Market in Crypto-assets” and “Decentralised Finance”)
Guilherme Maia / João Vieira dos Santos
Keywords Crypto-assets; Decentralised Finance; DeFi; Blockchain; Fintech; MiCA.
Modifications on the digital content or digital service by the trader in the Directive (EU) 2019/770
Martim Farinha
Keywords Digital Content; Digital Service; Modifications; Updates; Conformity.
On the nature of precontractual liability
António Graça Moura
Keywords Precontractual liability; culpa in contrahendo; obligations; Jhering; unjustified breach of negotiations; contractual invalidity.
Party autonomy under the EU Regulation on matrimonial property regimes
Anabela Susana de Sousa Gonçalves
Keywords Party autonomy; choice-of-law agreement; choice-of-court agreement; European regulation on matrimonial property regimes; matrimonial property regimes; Private International Law.
Personality, responsibility and sustainability in AI between new needs and ancient tyrannies
Vitulia Ivone
Keywords AI; Personality; Responsibility; Sustainability.
Protecting individuals in a big data age: the opacity of the algorithm and automated decision-making
Inês da Silva Costa
Keywords Algorithm; big data; automated individual decision-making; profiling; machine learning; data protection.