29 Apr, 2022 Updates to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act By Hugo Kent-Egan On 27 April, the Progress Educational Trust (PET), a charity with the aim of advancing the public understanding of science, law and...
28 Apr, 2022 ZTE seeks global FRAND rate for its own 4G portfolio By Bristows IAM has reported on a novel turn of events in the FRAND space, with it being revealed by ZTE that it has asked the Shenzhen Court to...
28 Apr, 2022 The Great E-Scrape: US Court reaffirms that web scraping is not contrary to the US’s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act By Jake Palmer On 18 April, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded in hiQ Labs, Inc. v LinkedIn Corp. that LinkedIn cannot prevent hiQ...
13 Apr, 2022 Surveillance technologies in vehicles – Part 2: Lots of cameras are left in this vehicle overnight By Bristows This article is the second in a two part series about the use of surveillance technologies in vehicles. The first part, relating to...
12 Apr, 2022 Dawn raids are coming home... By Sophie Lawrance On 6 April, a senior official confirmed that the European Commission (EC) had exercised its power to conduct dawn raid investigations at...
06 Apr, 2022 Bristows SnippITs - The £80 million question: Wasted expenditure or loss of profits? By Adrian Sim Freya Ollerearnshaw William White This post is part of the Bristows’ SnippITs series, which pulls together the key practical takeaways from recent court decisions for the...
06 Apr, 2022 Ed Sheeran gets it (copy)right in Shape of You battle By Dhara Reddy Ed Sheeran has won a High Court copyright battle over his immensely successful 2017 hit, Shape of You. The ruling, which was handed down...
06 Apr, 2022 Get on with the business of doing business – a quick tour of the 11th Commercial Court Guide By Bristows The 11th edition of the Commercial Court Guide (the “Guide”) comes into force this week, on Wednesday 6 April 2022. The Guide reflects...
05 Apr, 2022 Gambling ads featuring celebs to be banned By Dhara Reddy The Committee for Advertising Practice (“CAP”) has announced that gambling and betting companies will be banned from featuring...
01 Apr, 2022 The value in data - your business has a lot of data; how do you use it to train an algorithm? By Faye Harrison Although we talk about AI systems as being capable of ‘human’ or ‘intelligent’ behaviour, it is generally machine learning that enables...
01 Apr, 2022 2021 Annual Report on Medicines Advertising By Hugo Kent-Egan The MHRA recently published its annual report on Delivering High Standards in Medicines Advertising Regulation. This 16th edition of the...