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Regulations approved in May 2012 place a limit on the “redemption fee” which companies supported by the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist must pay in the event of an overseas transfer of know-how. These regulations are aimed at providing OCS-supported companies greater certainty regarding the consequences of international transactions, while preserving the statutory incentives to keep Israeli R&D operations and the resulting know-how in Israel.

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An internet revolution is now underway as ICANN begins to accept applications for new top level domains.

This update gives you a quick summary of the domain name system, lets you know how things are about to change, and offers tips on what you should be aware of and ways to protect your brand and trademarks.

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Meitar partner and head of Energy and Infrastructure Group, Renelle Joffe contributed a chapter to The ILO (International Law Office) online news magazine. The chapter is an overview of the Regulatory regime for acquiring petroleum rights in Israel.

Since the discovery of the Tamar natural gas field offshore Israel in 2009, there has been a significant increase in the number of transactions connected to the acquisition of interests in petroleum rights in Israel. The bulk of these acquisitions have been carried out not by acquiring new licences, but instead by farming into existing ones – whether directly by acquiring working interests in existing licences or indirectly by acquiring equity or other interests in the licence holders. Israel is a small country and therefore most of the relevant areas, especially offshore, have already been licensed out.

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