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Terminating a pregnant employee during her probation period
By means of a judgment delivered by the Industrial Tribunal on the 27th February 2020, Union Print Company Limited was ordered to pay the plaintiff the sum of €10,846, for terminating her employment unfairly.
Future of Security Token Offerings in Malta
Following the MFSA’s issuance of a “Consultation Document on Security Token Offering- Capital Markets Strategy” in July 2019 and the feedback received from various stakeholders, MFSA has now issued its feedback statement. Here are some of the points discussed in the feedback statement which provide an overview of the envisaged STO framework in Malta.
Using a Maltese “Earlier Right” to Oppose an EUTM Application
In terms of Maltese law, independently of whether one has a registered trade mark or otherwise, mere prior use of a mark in the course of trade, grants the user a proprietary right over the sign, such that they may utilise it to the exclusion of all others, in the location where its force of attraction extends – being that zone of territory where the use of a similar mark may create confusion.
