In the last two decades the society has witnessed dramatic advances in the field of biotechnology. Recently, nanotechnology forms the main area of technological innovation. Genetic altering of various products and live organisms hopefully will improve the quality of human life. Two decades ago...

This article is devoted to present main principles of the EC state aid proceedings to a Lithuanian reader. The author considers the role of general principles of EC law in the application of Art. 88 EC by the Commission, European and national courts. Nevertheless, the major emphasis is given to...

Prifina Inc. submitted comments to the California AG Regulations for the implementation of CCPA. These comments focus on data portability, make suggestions regarding the adjustment of CCPA Regulations to support user-held data models, and propose a new approach to estimate the value of data to...

What are the key factors that facilitate innovation and creativity? This chapter begins by challenging the traditional emphasis on IP rights as an incentive to innovate. While it is true, that IP rights provide for a much needed tool to protect creative ideas, we argue that a much more important...

The principle of territoriality of IP rights has been subject to much criticism recently. It is often argued that the territoriality principle does no longer fit to the needs of cross-border exploitation of intellectual property products. Therefore, in order to facilitate international trade,...

This article analyses the question of initial ownership to patents. Conventionally, intellectual property rights have been considered as limited territorially. Nevertheless, the increase of cross-border exploitation of intellectual property assets reveals shortcomings of the principle of...

The emergence of the Internet, and more recently cloud computing, has tremendous technological, economic, social as well as cultural effects. Such technological development certainly affects legal framework and calls for careful assessment whether, and, if so how, the existing legal principles...

This report has been submitted to the White House, which is currently exploring possible executive actions to advance Privacy Enhancing Technologies and unlock the value of data. At Prifina, we believe that while the federal privacy act is miles away, there are quite a few impactful steps that...