Law stated as at 08 Dec 2009 • International, USA (National/Federal) |
"The term "investments" shall include every kind of assets and particularly:
a. movable and immovable property as well as any other rights in rem, such as servitudes, mortgages, liens, pledges;
b. shares, parts or any other kind of participation in companies;
c. claims to money or to any performance having an economic value;
d. copyrights, industrial property rights (such as patents, utility models, industrial designs or models, trade or service marks, trade names, indications of origin), technical processes, know-how and goodwill;
e. concessions under public law, including concession to search for, extract or exploit natural resources as well as all other rights given by law, by contract or by decision of the authority in accordance with the law."