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Global BVU News and Trends March 2021

Business valuation news from a global perspective.

Could proposed changes to Companies House small-company filing requirements improve market data options for business valuers?

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) reforms to Companies House filing requirements (first announced in September 2020) continues to move forward.

Increased valuation work predicted as result of new restructuring regime

‘In both the UK and the EU there will soon be substantial changes to current insolvency legislation,’ says Marianne Tissier (Valuology) in a recent blog post.

The Innovation Act

How much value would be lost if the Washington Redskins were forced to change their name?

More defenders of NPEs warn Congress against hasty action

Still more legislation is introduced to limit infringement suits by non-practicing entities

Google wins a key copyright victory in Germany

Pandora CEO to step down, but the company’s future depends upon Congress

Tomorrow the “first-to-file” gets the patent instead of “first-to-invent”

Do IP policies adopted by Congress benefit foreign corporations at the expense of U.S. consumers?

New legislation introduced to reign in NPE activity

USPTO publishes final rules and guidance to implement first-inventor-to-file provision

IP ownership issues hit compulsory education

Trade secrets protections strengthened by the Clarification Act

The nature of the patent infringement defense of “prior commercial use” has changed with AIA, affecting patent values

Europe now has its unitary patent

An organization’s IP strategy should address use of AIA’s pre-issuance submission provisions

AIA and the law of unintended consequences

What is the Internet Radio Fairness Act?

Working paper from the Fed makes a case against the current patent system

One year later, key provisions of AIA take effect

Congressional Research Service report criticized as reflecting an anti-NPE bias

Initial House attempts to mitigate the negative effects on competition caused by NPE litigation may not be such a good idea

USPTO publishes proposed rules and examination guidelines for first-to-file provision of the AIA