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Bitcoin ATM Author Martin E Walder   Licence CC-BY 3.0   Source Wikipedia Cryptocurrency Jane Lambert in its Legal Statement on Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts ,  the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce ("UKJT") published the opinions of  Lawrence Akka QC , David Quest QC , Matthew Lavy and Sam Goodman  ("the drafting committee") on a number of legal questions relating to cryptoassets and smart contracts where there are areas of perceived uncertainty. The Institutions The UKJT is chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court and consists of Lawrence Akka QC, Sir Nicholas Green, Chair of the Law Commission of England and Wales, as an observer, Richard Hay of Linklaters LLP. Peter Hunn of the Accord Project, Mary Kyle of the City of London Corporation, Christopher Woolard of the Financial Conduct Authority and Mr Justice Zacaroli.  The publication was delivered by the LawTech Delivery Panel  which describes its...

Author Ltak Licence  Creative Commons-Attribution Share Alike 3.0 unported Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Arnold)  Parainen Pearl Shipping Ltd and Others v Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Skipsrederi AS and Others [2017] EWHC 2570 (Pat) (18 Oct 2017)  This was a dispute between a company that had been incorporated in the Marshall Islands  and its Cypriot subsidiaries on the one hand and three companies that had been incorporated in Norway on the other over whether the Patents Court had jurisdiction to hear an action for a declaration of non-infringement relating to the bulk discharge system of a Bahamas registered cement carrier that was alleged to infringe the British, Finnish and Swedish designations of European patent number 2 032 426 "System and method for discharge of bulk material from a ship".   Particulars of the ship together with photographs of her can be found on the Marine Traffic  website. The Dispute The...

The UK and the remaining Member States of the EU Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert There was a bad reason for voting to leave the European Union and a good one. The bad reason, which was probably the one for which most leavers voted, was that art 45 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union  stimulated competition in the labour market. The good reason, of which I was and remain highly sceptical but which I hope turns out to be right, is that Union law imposed a break on British enterprise and that its disappearance, once art 50 (3) of the Treaty on European Union takes effect, will stimulate business. I premise this article in the hope that our people and politicians genuinely seek economic expansion. Introduction to IP Intellectual property ( "IP" ) is the collective name for the bundle of rights that protect investment in intellectual assets ( "IA" ), that is to say branding, design, technology and works of art and lite...