On 12 July 2019, the European Union General Court ruled in favour of German carmaker Audi over registration of the Audimas trademark as an EU trademark. Founded in 1931, Audimas is the largest sportswear manufacturer in the Baltic States and a leading company in the development, design and manufacture of sportswear. In Lithuanian, “audimas” has […]
The Cabinet has decided that the so-called “blank media levy” will continue to be collected on the basis of the existing fee-based system rather than being transferred to a state budget system. However, it was agreed that there is an urgent need to review the list of media to which the levy applies. Discussion on […]
Minsk has hosted the most significant dispute resolution event in our region – the Eastern European Dispute Resolution Forum (EEDRF). Meanwhile the most active young participants in the arbitration community from Belarus (Young Alternative Dispute Resolution Belarus and Austria (Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners held a joint conference on the topic “Interaction between courts and tribunals […]
Klaipėdos administratoriai, represented in court by our team, won a dispute over its removal from the post of bankruptcy administrator. The Lithuanian Court of Appeal found that a creditor seeking to remove our client did not have the right to apply for the administrator’s removal because its claim was less than the minimum amount set […]
Publication / Ieva Andersone, Jūlija Terjuhana, Private: Gunvaldis Leitens
Development of a new Latvian regulation on qualifications for data protection officers is in process. The SDI will be responsible for the exam procedure. Unlike previous regulations, the new ones do not set special requirements for candidates who want to take the exam. The draft regulations state that exams will be announced at least two […]
