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How You Can Turnaround Your European Business

 CEOs and CFOs often feel like they are following in the footsteps of Don Quixote when they try to restructure business operations in Europe. In theory, the formula for a restructuring in Europe is the same as the US - control cash, adjust pricing, renegotiate contracts, reduce employees, eliminate poorly performing divisions or products, accelerate collection efforts and restructure the balance sheet. In practice, implementing those actions in Europe can seem like an impossible dream. Too often, European management or advisors will raise an unending series of roadblocks and reasons as to why they cannot implement change. To complicate matters, when they do decide to act, they often lack the urgency demanded by the deteriorating situation. A half-hearted or botched attempt at a turnaround can further cripple the business, alienate customers and demoralize employees. To create lasting change in a distressed potranseuropean business, turnaround efforts must go beyond goal setting and...
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European Patents and International PCT Patents - Further Cost Savings

  There are a number of easy ways to significantly reduce your European patent application costs, both when filing directly at the European Patent Office ('EPO') from a domestic patent filing or when entering the European Regional Phase from an international patent application ('PCT') at 31 months from the earliest priority date. Occasionally, we are presented with a European patent specification or an international patent specification having a large number of pages, which on more than one occasion has been over one hundred. As we know, each page in excess of the first 35 pages incurs an 'excess page' official fee, which at present is €13 Euros. These 'excess page' fees can therefore soon mount up. So, the question is, how can we limit these 'excess page' fees when filing European patent applications or international PCT patent applications? Taking the European patent application first, the specification can obviously be formatted if directly fi...
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The European Convention on Human Rights Has to Be Amended

  The European Convention on Human Rights*1 has to be amended. An inadmissibility of individual applications causing their rejection by judges of chambers of the potranseuropean Court of Human Rights is an object of this research. This article aims to ascertain whether certain provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights pertaining to finding individual applications inadmissible, causing a rejection of such applications, fall in compliance with the principles of the Rule of law and with the general doctrine of Judicial Review. A necessity for such a research of the topic ensues from multiple facts when judges of chambers of the potranseuropean Court of Human Rights, while acting in individual capacity ( i.e. the so- called-single judges) with competence mentioned in Article 27 of the European Convention on Human Rights adopt their decisions which prevent the Court from further making a thorough judicial scrutiny to merits and facts of applications received. One of the pr...
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