Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. www.practicallaw.com. 2010.
Grant procedure before the European Patent Office — Graph of European patent applications filed and granted between 1998 and 2007. Note that the average time from filing to grant in 2007 was 43.7 months (3.6 years) The grant procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO) is an ex parte,… … Wikipedia
Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge debate — The Pearl Harbor advance knowledge debate is a dispute over what, if any, advance knowledge American officials had of Japan s December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.Ever since the Japanese attack there has been debate as to how and why the… … Wikipedia
HM Revenue & Customs — (HMRC) The UK government department responsible for the administration of UK taxes (other than local authority taxes such as council tax). HMRC was formed on 18 April 2005 by the merger of the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise. For further… … Law dictionary
HM Revenue and Customs — HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) The UK government department responsible for the administration of UK taxes (other than local authority taxes such as council tax). HMRC was formed on 18 April 2005 by the merger of the Inland Revenue and Customs &… … Law dictionary
HMRC — HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) The UK government department responsible for the administration of UK taxes (other than local authority taxes such as council tax). HMRC was formed on 18 April 2005 by the merger of the Inland Revenue and Customs &… … Law dictionary
demerger — A procedure by which part of the business of a company or subsidiary in a group of companies is transferred directly to shareholders (or a class of them) by a distribution thereby creating separate companies in common ownership. The procedure is… … Law dictionary
United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… … Universalium
France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… … Universalium
tunnels and underground excavations — ▪ engineering Introduction Great tunnels of the world Great tunnels of the worldhorizontal underground passageway produced by excavation or occasionally by nature s action in dissolving a soluble rock, such as limestone. A vertical opening … Universalium
United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… … Universalium
