This webinar will help in-house teams make sense of the changing pensions landscape and what it might mean for sponsoring employers. The discussion will include easier employer access to scheme surpluses, the arrival of the new funding regime, the implications of the ongoing Virgin Media case, as well as employers’ duties under forthcoming changes to the notifiable events regime. 


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The EU Gas and Hydrogen package

On 21 May 2024, the European Council (or Council) adopted the so-called ‘Hydrogen and decarbonised gas market package’ (the Gas Package). The package contains a recast of the 715/2009 gas regulation (Gas Regulation) and a recast of the 2009/73 gas directive (Gas Directive) aimed at reforming the existing EU regulatory framework to support the deployment of renewable and low-carbon gases, in particular hydrogen. As such, it represents a major development in the EU gas market.

Global | July 29, 2024

Banking and finance
Digital Health 2023

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Germany: AI cannot be named as inventor - insights from the Bundesgerichtshof’s DABUS decision

The Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof - BGH) in Germany recently issued a landmark ruling on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in patent law. The decision, on 11 June 2024, in the DABUS case (AZ X ZB 5/22), reinforces the principle that only natural persons can be named as inventors under patent law. This ruling has significant implications for the future of AI-generated inventions and patent applications globally.

Global | July 25, 2024

Technology
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Artificial intelligence: English Court of Appeal decides artificial neural network is not patentable

The English Court of Appeal has decided that an artificial neural network (ANN) was not patentable in Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks v Emotional Perception AI Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 825 reversing the finding of the lower court (the High Court), and in so doing agreeing with the UK Intellectual Property Office’s (IPO) original rejection of the patent application on the basis of unpatentable subject matter.

Global | July 24, 2024

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