How to apply intellectual property (IP) box regime

IP Box (known also as a Patent Box) is a special corporate tax regime successfully implemented by multiple countries worldwide. Such progressive countries attract new innovative businesses by incentivizing research and development activities inside their country’s territory with significant tax deductions. Currently, 14 of the 27 EU member states have an IP Box regime in place. In other words, the governments of these countries compete for IT businesses, smart entrepreneurs, and engineers that develop computer software or other qualified IP assets.

The session will provide a practical extract from the major terms and conditions of the modern IP Box regimes based on the modified nexus approach and classified by OECD as not harmful. We will also discuss the most common real-life examples of product and outsourcing companies. The presentation will be useful for founders, investors, and top managers. As well as for corporate and financial lawyers.

Running Kubernetes inside system containers: what, how and why

Kubernetes enables possibilities to develop cloud-native microservices or decompose traditional applications making them more technologically advanced with the help of containers.

Currently, most of the Kubernetes solutions are offered on top of VMs and there is room for further improvements.

Implementing nested architecture of application containers running inside system containers opens additional flexibility of resource allocation and management, accelerates provisioning of the clusters and pods, as well as cuts the overall costs.

Or in other words, it enhances provisioning, performance, and price. During this session we’ll review the possibilities of running a Kubernetes cluster inside nested containers, what configurations should be taken into account, and how to overcome the barriers on the way to more efficient Kubernetes hosting.