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Enactment of the Special Act on the Promotion of Dispersed Energy & Amendment to Electric Utility Act

05 July 2023 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

The Special Act on the Promotion of Dispersed Energy (the Dispersed Energy Act) was recently enacted as of June 13, 2023 and, on the same date, the amendment to the Electric Utility Act (also known as the Electricity Business Act) (the Amendment) was also promulgated, both of which will come into force as of June 14, 2024.

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Can Liquidated Damages and Penalty Clauses Survive under Korean Law?

03 July 2023 by Jipyong - South Korea

Foreign contractors and subcontractors doing business with Korean companies are often puzzled by how Korean courts deal with liquidated damages and penalty clauses in contracts.

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Note on Nokia v. Oppo (3rd July 2023)

03 July 2023 by Anand and Anand - India

For several years, patent owners navigated the SEP landscape in India, unsure of their destination (injunction, damages, FRAND verdicts), and wondering whether their opponents (implementers of SEPs) could be made to deposit security, to protect the SEP owners’ interests.

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Anand and Anand ‘highly commended’ for its Luxury Law Practice

27 June 2023 by Anand and Anand - India

The firm has won Luxury law Firm Award twice earlier; only Indian firm to be so recognised

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Analysis of the First Applications of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act

21 June 2023 by Jipyong - South Korea

The Serious Accidents Punishment Act (“SAPA”) is a relatively new legislation that came into force on January 27, 2022.

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Trademark protection of signature poses and voices of celebrities in India: An uncharted territory

08 June 2023 by Rahul Chaudhry & Partners - India: Sakshi Mathur, Associate

Personality rights, commonly known as ‘right of publicity,’ guarantees an individual right in one’s personal attributes such as appearance, signature, voice, silhouette, face, features, gestures, expressions, mannerisms etc, paving way for an individual to use and commercialise one’s identity.

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Latest Update to “Guidelines for Workplace Risk Assessment“ to Impact Businesses in Korea

31 May 2023 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

On 22 May 2023, the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) announced a significant update to its “Guidelines for Workplace Risk Assessment“ (Guidelines), effective immediately.

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Supreme Court of Korea Affirms Abuse of Dominance for Tying Patent Licenses and Engineering Services in the Shipbuilding Industry

30 May 2023 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

Lee & Ko’s Antitrust & Competition Group successfully represented three major Korean shipbuilding companies in the court action involving Gaztransport & Technigaz SA (GTT), the exclusive holder of key patents in technology for manufacturing/constructing membrane storage tanks used on liquefied natural gas carriers (LNG Carrier).

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IP Issues and Implications Relating to ChatGPT

26 May 2023 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

ChatGPT is a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) service based on Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), a language model grounded in artificial neural networks, developed by OpenAI.

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Advised on MBK Partners’ KRW 2.5 Trillion Acquisition of Leading Global Dental Scanner Developer Medit Corporation from UCK Partners

25 May 2023 by Kim & Chang - South Korea

Kim & Chang, using separate teams, advised both the buyer, MBK Partners, and the sellers, UCK Partners (formerly known as Unison Capital Korea) and individual shareholders, in connection with the purchase and sale of Medit Corporation (the “Target Company”).