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...Shell is under fire on several fronts after ABP, the Dutch pension fund, announced plans earlier in the week to divest all its holdings in fossil fuel companies, including Shell, because it saw insufficient...
...Just last week ABP, the huge Dutch pension fund, said it was dumping €15bn in fossil fuel holdings, including Shell, because it no longer saw the point of working with such companies on decarbonisation....
...The comments by Ben van Beurden follow a decision this week by one of the world’s largest pension funds to sell its entire holdings in fossil fuel companies and come a day after it was revealed that Daniel...
...Under double Irish arrangements, companies could place IP like patents and trademarks in separate subsidiaries that were legally based in Ireland, but not treated as domiciled there for tax purposes, as...
...Sony’s share price has risen 36 per cent since Third Point’s interest was first reported in April, on hopes that it would divest some of its holdings....
...As a result, multinationals need to accelerate a shift to selling more on-patent drugs to China — a process eased by faster approvals....
...the international patent system....
...Unlike a typical proprietary trader he is also an inventor: DRW has licensed its patent on variance swap futures, which track volatility, to Germany’s Eurex exchange, and has created an interest rate contract...
...Palo Alto said the settlement, which will see both companies license patents at issue to one another, will cost it $175m. Both companies also agreed not to sue each other for eight years....
...Jefferies LLC was the sole financial adviser to Astex. Otsuka was advised by Goldman Sachs....
...He put those connections on display during his tenure at Yahoo by announcing a series of deals, including a strategic alliance with Facebook to resolve a patent dispute, partnerships with Spotify and Clear...
...as the economy began to show signs of improvement. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-25/south-korean-consumer-confidence-rebounds-from-nine-month-low.html Qatar disposes of Barclays warrants Qatar Holding...
...LLC plans to sell Barclays Plc shares valued at about 771 million pounds (US$1.24bn) as the sovereign wealth fund disposes of its remaining warrants in the UK bank. http://bloom.bg/V77AZG China successfully...
...trials is to become the first pharmaceutical company to float in London for five years will be valued at about £170 million when it lists on AIM, the junior London market From The Sunday Telegraph, - Qatar Holding...
...“We’re only in the early stages of understanding how the acquisition of patents might deter innovation.”...
...“We’ve got a very big cluster here already and maybe we don’t shout about it as much as others but in terms of employment and patent registrations Oxford ranks right up there,” he said....
...Sphere Medical Holding rose to 95p on its maiden day on Aim, up 2.7 per cent from an issue price of 92½p....
...Arm Holdings was a top performer in a falling London market on Wednesday....
...Lawyers said the case was important because the ruling had invalidated two patents for lack of inventive step and priority date....
...Nortel filed for bankruptcy in January 2009 and had agreed to sell about 6,000 patents to Google for $900m unless a competitor bids more at an auction in July....
...That has fuelled market speculation about more radical efforts to focus on the company’s most profitable operations, as it braces itself for falling sales as several patents expire in the coming months,...
...He was also a director of Autoliv, Masonite International, the Williams Companies, HSBC Finance and HSBC North America Holding....
...However, analysts predicted that the ruling would delay US approval by at least six months and erode the drug’s sales prospects, already under pressure as the patent for Plavix expires, offering potential...
...Speaking generally . . . the patent expirations for major AZ drugs are well understood by most investors.”...
...In a separate deal, Intermediate Capital Group, the UK private equity investor, is set to seal the £440m buy-out of CPA Global, the patent and legal services group....
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