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Intellectual Property & Technology: Autumn 2014 Legislation Programme

September 19, 2014

 Bill

 Purpose as per Legislative Programme 

 Current Status/
Expected Publication Date

Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014    To expand the research exemption for medicinal products and to implement the Singapore Treaty on Trade Marks  Order for Second Stage in Dáil Éireann  
Amendment of the Constitution Bill  
 
To amend Article 29 of the Constitution to recognise the International Agreement on a Unified Patent Court   2015 
Technological Universities Bill    To provide for the establishment of Technological Universities and the amendment of IoT/DIT and HEA Acts    2015
 
Data-Sharing and Governance Bill    
 
To implement measures to improve data-sharing and governance  2015 
Data Sharing Bill  To underpin better risk-based enforcement, efficiency and cooperation in business regulation, by allowing specified public bodies to share specified data relating to businesses   No indication as to when publication is expected  
Criminal Justice (Offences relating to Information Systems) Bill
  
To enable ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime and the transposition of the EU Directive 2013/40 on attacks against Information Systems and replacing Council Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA  Mid 2015  

 
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