South Africa: Tax Agency – search and seize without a warrant

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) wants the power, without a warrant, to conduct a search and to seize documents if it believes you are about to destroy records and evidence of fraudulent activities or income earned.  This…

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US: Provisional Patent Applications

Although the legislation establishing the provisional patent application (US), has been around since the Clinton Administration (e.g. 1994), the benefits of the procedure are not always well understood.  The provisional patent application process enables inventors to have the…

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Georgia: Wooing Foreign Investors

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili pushes a plan to liberalise the economy to attract more investment and decouple from the Russian economy. Follow the link to watch a brief video clip on the move by Georgia to boost its…

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Russia: Government Still has Faith in “Central Planning” Model

Every few years, we see the emergence of the “next big thing” which invariably required government to act as the economic incubator to spearhead a new national industrial base to challenge the worlds best.  Nano technology is, and…

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