Why are some chocolate shapes, and shapes of other candy, protected as trademarks and other shapes are not? The question comes to mind after reading the decision of 12 December 2012 whereby the Board of Appeal of the E.U. Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) conferred trademark protection on Nestle’s KitKat trapezoid bar: Also in 2012, the Trademark […]
An article written by BDK Tax associate Miloš Krstić was published by Serbian Business & Finance (B&I) portal. The article is on ‘Profit tax and transfer pricing’ and was written following the amendments to the Serbian Corporate Income Tax Law related to transfer pricing.
On 30 January 2013, the Serbian parliament adopted amendments to the Trademark Act of 2009. Most changes concern procedural aspects of the enforcement in case of an infringement. The remainder of the amendments mainly consist of minor changes in the wording, made in order to add clarity to, and remove redaction errors in the existing provisions in […]
The topic of this post is the interplay between public procurement and competition regulations. The recently adopted Serbian Law on Public Procurement (“LPP”), to become applicable on 1 April 2013, contains a few provisions on the matter. The LPP requires that each bidder produce a statement certifying that its bid is being submitted without collusion […]
The High Court in Belgrade recently decided a case in which the central issue was the originality of a plaintiff’s article published in a magazine and later re-published on her own website. The judgment of 31 October 2012 has proven to be atypically long (twelve pages) for a decision issued by a Serbian court in […]
As of 23 January 2013, the official name of our firm is BDK Advokati AOD, while the registered translation of the firm’s name is BDK Attorneys at Law. Our logo will continue to refer to our firm as BDK Advokati/Attorneys at Law. Please also note that we moved our Podgorica office to a new address.
Portal ‘Agitpop’ featured an article about a recent copyright infringement case in which BDK’s Bogdan Ivanišević successfully represented Agitpop’s editor-in-chief as plaintiff.
BDK Tax Practice note on transfer pricing in Serbia, authored by partner Tijana Kojović and associate Miloš Krstić, was re-published in the WWTPR e-Newsletter.
In the face of the growing public deficits, tax authorities around the globe have made the regulation and enforcement of transfer pricing legislation and the underlying arm’s length principle a top priority. Read more
The Amendments to the Energy Law, which came into force on 30 December 2012 (Amendments), introduce a full-scale procedure for obtaining the energy permit (called “consent”) for the construction of small hydro-power plants with installed capacity under 1MW. Read more
