15 Oct, 2024 Safer Phones Bill to be discussed in Parliament this week By Faye Harrison As we await the Online Safety Act's gradual entry into force, with Ofcom expected to finalise its first online safety codes by the end of...
11 Oct, 2024 Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Andrew Bowler Ewan MacAulay Kathryn Hambly Ben Reeves +1 more... Show less The Irides Weekly Update is our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world. Taking its name from the plural of...
11 Oct, 2024 Bungie's "First Defence" against "Red War" copyright infringement claim in Destiny 2 By Charlie Purdie On 2 October 2024, author Matthew Martineau issued a claim against Bungie (developer of the popular video FPS looter shooter game,...
10 Oct, 2024 Labour’s Employment Rights Bill - published today By Manon Rattle As promised in the King’s Speech back in July (see our previous article), within its first 100 days in office Labour has today published...
09 Oct, 2024 Podcast: How to avoid mega tech projects becoming mega tech disputes By Adrian Sim Freya Ollerearnshaw In this episode of The Roadmap, our technology lawyers, Adrian Sim and Freya Ollerearnshaw distil the key issues and takeaways from the...
08 Oct, 2024 Licensing content to train AI – an emerging frontier? By Emily Ryder Reports abound in the media about AI companies entering into licensing deals with organisations including media organisations and other...
07 Oct, 2024 Incoming: MHRA consultation on UK Medical Devices Regulations By Hugo Kent-Egan Alex Denoon On 25 September 2024, the MHRA updated its roll-out of the new medical device regulatory framework for Great Britain. The MHRA aims to...
04 Oct, 2024 Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Dominic Adair Eden Winlow Amy Howlett The Irides Weekly Update is our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world. Taking its name from the plural of...
02 Oct, 2024 TEAM-NB’s interpretation of “Structured Dialogue” between Manufacturer and Notified Body, clarifies little By Alex Denoon Anna Hall TEAM-NB has published a new version (v5.0) of its Code of Conduct for Notified Bodies. While we don’t normally comment on this Code,...
30 Sep, 2024 Seminal vote to suspend competition law in Guernsey allows merger to complete By James Batsford Stephen Smith Last week the States of Guernsey took the novel and historic step of voting to suspend the application of competition law to allow Sure...
30 Sep, 2024 Changes to the CPR taking effect on 1 October 2024: Power to compel ADR By Wes Walker Last year, the Court of Appeal in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 141 decided that courts in England...
27 Sep, 2024 The past week in data protection By Jamie Drucker Here are the data protection news items which caught my eye this week: Firstly, a bit of breaking news. The Irish DPC has fined Meta €91m...