Publication / Liutauras Vasiliauskas
Our Fintech team have prepared a reminder to all payment service providers holding a payment institution licence issued by the Bank of Lithuania of the following reporting obligations: Statistical reporting on payments and fraudulent payments (every three and six months respectively) Reporting on payment service charges (five working days before service charges start to apply) […]
Publication / Lelde Laviņa, Kristiāns Dzerkaļs
The global Covid-19 pandemic and related travel restrictions have contributed to online developments in many sectors. Now foreigners have access to an upgraded system in order to carry out the online notarial activities required in Latvia. The law in Latvia prescribes that authorities must accept electronic documents, if they are signed with an electronic signature […]
Our intellectual property experts authored country chapters in the review World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies published by the Center for International Legal Studies. Partner Ieva Andersone wrote about Latvian regulations while counsel Stasys Drazdauskas covered the situation in Lithuania. The study covers various aspects of intellectual property regulation, including patents, copyright, trade and service […]
Publication / Marina Golovnitskaya, Stefan Tomchyk
Non-use trademark cancellation is quite a common legal tool for combatting trademark piracy, as well as preventing rightsholders from “taking up space” with inactive trademark registrations. General rules In Belarus, a trademark registration may be fully or partially cancelled by a decision of the Intellectual Property Board of the Supreme Court if, without a valid […]
Estonians have not yet recovered from this fall’s electricity price shock, while the 2022 state budget already aims to considerably hike traffic fines and state fees. As if that was not enough, the government introduced a bill in late September that promises to increase the tax burden further, our partner Allar Jõks and counsel Piibe […]
