Businesses found to have infringed patent rights can face potentially substantial bills for compensation and a block on the manufacture, supply and sale of infringing products. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Businesses that are involved in patent litigation incur costs when engaging legal advisers. Some of these costs may be recoverable from the other side, but there are rules around costs […]
Continue Reading →Patent rights are property rights and as such can be assigned, mortgaged, licensed, etc… However, when assigning a patent there are strict requirements and procedures that the patentee must adhere […]
Continue Reading →Bringing or defending a patent claim before the courts can be a daunting prospect, not least because of the complicated nature of patents and patent law. It is vital that […]
Continue Reading →When patents are granted they provide inventors up to 20 years of protection for their invention, but there are circumstances in which patents can be revoked. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →A number of celebrities and social media influencers are being investigated by a UK regulator over their endorsements of others’ products and services on the internet. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The BBC has called on the UK government to open a review of current laws governing the reporting of criminal investigations after deciding not to pursue an appeal against a […]
Continue Reading →UK landowners, telecommunications operators and the government will work collaboratively to implement the revised Electronic Communications Code (‘new Code’) and deliver the UK’s digital connectivity ambitions. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Website operators cannot lift copyrighted media lawfully posted elsewhere on the internet without first obtaining the rights holder’s permission to publish the image themselves, the EU’s highest court has ruled. […]
Continue Reading →Businesses can be found liable for either direct or indirect patent infringement under UK patent law. The differences between the two types of infringing acts are set out in section […]
Continue Reading →Businesses can face claims of patent infringement if they carry out acts infringing patented products or processes without the consent of patent rights holders. However, UK patent law contains a […]
Continue Reading →The UK government has revealed that a deal was struck earlier this year to enable the UK to participate in the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) system during any Brexit […]
Continue Reading →A German appeal’s court has rejected a bid from the internet’s global domain name organisation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), to force a domain name registrar […]
Continue Reading →ANALYSIS: A recent report has highlighted areas of similarity as well as differences in the way US authorities are responding to the rise of fintech in comparison to counterparts in […]
Continue Reading →All businesses regulated to provide payment services in the UK will be required to adhere to high-level standards that many other regulated financial services firms are already obliged to meet […]
Continue Reading →A new insurance and liability regime for driverless cars has been finalised in the UK. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Statements which, considered in isolation, do not cause or are not likely to cause serious harm to a person’s reputation cannot be aggregated for the purposes of bringing a defamation […]
Continue Reading →ANALYSIS: Businesses should welcome plans outlined by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to boost private sector involvement in major projects. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →A wide-ranging new vision for the future of the UK’s telecoms infrastructure has been outlined by the UK government. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →A new digital taskforce will bring together experts from academia, industry and the government to advise on how data, artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to predict the […]
Continue Reading →The number of personal data breaches received by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has more than quadrupled since the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, it has […]
Continue Reading →In a ruling over a dispute between Sir Cliff Richard and the BBC, the High Court ruled that “as a matter of general principle, a suspect has a reasonable expectation […]
Continue Reading →Scotland’s new digital health and care strategy contains a blueprint for the adoption of digital technologies to transform the way health and care services are delivered and improve outcomes for […]
Continue Reading →Plans to force web browser providers to ask users to set their privacy preferences could be scrapped, according to proposals under consideration by EU law makers. Read Complete Article
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