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Tips on how an effective IP settlement can be a winning strategy
Litigating intellectual property disputes, including patent, trademark, copyright, industrial design and trade secret rights, can be complex and time-consuming.
Global | Publication | April 2020
– In particular:
Category A - Employee-related payments (subject to limits)
Category B - Government debts
Category A takes precedence over Category B (and so on) and debts within each category rank equally (and, if assets are insufficient to pay everything, abate equally) among themselves
– Preferential creditors rank ahead of floating charge holders where the assets of the company are insufficient to satisfy all preferential creditors
– Share pari passu, subject to rights attaching to different classes of share in the constitution
– If proceeds are insufficient, they all receive the same percentage of what they would otherwise be entitled to
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Litigating intellectual property disputes, including patent, trademark, copyright, industrial design and trade secret rights, can be complex and time-consuming.
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