Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

In February 2010 we reported on the new powers of the Information Commissioner’s Office ("ICO") to impose penalties on data controllers who commit serious contraventions of the data protection principles.

The latest review of the UK’s intellectual property laws announced by David Cameron in November 2010 proposes to "make them fit for the internet age".

Welcome to our Spring Technology and IP eBulletin. To coincide with the 10th Anniversary of World Intellectual Property Day today, Monday 26 April 2010, we have put together a number of interesting articles which focus on some of the day to day issues raised by World IP Day.

The concept of self-conducted diagnostic tests, administered by patients in their own home, would likely have been thought completely preposterous 100 years ago – conjuring-up images of an array of test-tubes, flasks and Bunsen burners.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled yesterday in an important case (C-125/10, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt), relating to Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs).

On 2 November 2011, the UK Supreme Court (formerly the House of Lords) handed down its decision in Human Genome Sciences Inc (HGS) v Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), which was primarily concerned with the issue of industrial applicability of claimed biological material.

The legal saga surrounding "Eleanor", the Ford Mustang from "Gone in 60 Seconds", has been rumbling on for over 20 years.

Jo Soar, Lesley Harper and Caroline Twist are our Licensing Dream Team after moving to Rothera Bray en masse in May 2024. They are based at our Nottingham office in the Lace Market...

IBM UK ("IBM") successfully enforced the terms of a mainframe license against the defendants who had created a competing software product.

This weekend, the 12 month grace period for compliance with the new EU cookie rule comes to an end.

Almost a year ago today, new rules came into force concerning the use of cookies on websites by website operators. In the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office gave website operators a one year grace period from enforcement action, during which website operators were expected to audit and revise the use of cookies on their websites, to change the functionality of their websites and to amend their privacy policies to ensure that they were only setting cookies in circumstances which complied w

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