6/18/2026 4:13:36 PM CMA fines Marks Electrical over consumer breach as bigger penalties loom By Francion Brooks Iva Gobac Antonia Kendrick The CMA has imposed a £720,000 fine on Marks Electrical and ordered the retailer to refund approximately £600,000 to customers. What went...
6/16/2026 8:24:42 AM Contracting for agentic AI and AI procurement By Charlie Hawes Vik Khurana The shift to agentic AI has direct contractual consequences. Standard terms written for generative AI systems may not adequately address...
6/15/2026 1:31:30 PM Anthropic suspends access to Fable and Mythos models: implications for AI sovereignty and contracts By William White Charlie Hawes On 12 June 2026, Anthropic disabled access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models for its customers globally. This was reportedly in response...
6/15/2026 1:29:25 PM Can book titles be registered as trade marks? By Stephanie Taylor The intersection of copyright and trade marks often throws up questions about what is capable of being registered as a trade mark and...
6/15/2026 12:53:43 PM Who’s Using Who? Software Costs and Pricing in the age of Agentic AI By Toby Crick Summary The rapid deployment of Agentic AI is having game changing impacts across multiple industries. One under-examined aspect is the...
6/15/2026 10:02:46 AM UK announces social media ban for under 16s By Gemma Nash Today (15 June), the UK government has announced its plans to ban social media access for under 16s. This follows on from the UK...
6/15/2026 8:47:49 AM Irides: Weekly global patent litigation update By Richard Pinckney Rachel Mumby Maria Ryan Amy Howlett Nicholas Round +2 more... Show less This edition features updates from: Brazil, CJEU, Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the European Patent Office (EPO). The Irides Weekly...
6/11/2026 2:04:01 PM Ryanair seating fees don't fly with the CMA: investigation launched By Iva Gobac Antonia Kendrick Francion Brooks The CMA has today announced an investigation into Ryanair over its practice of charging parents to sit next to their children on flights....
6/11/2026 1:12:46 PM Bristows’ SnippITs - Mind the notices clause: when email isn't enough By Freya Ollerearnshaw This post is part of the Bristows’ SnippITs series, which pulls together the key practical takeaways from recent court decisions for the...
6/9/2026 9:25:27 AM From content risk to conduct risk | Identifying agentic AI risks By Vik Khurana Charlie Hawes With generative AI, legal risk largely centres on content: what the system produces and what it was trained on. With agentic AI, the...
6/8/2026 9:17:49 AM Irides: Weekly global patent litigation update By Robert Burrows Myles Jelf Nicholas Round Amy Howlett Alex Mocanu Nischay Mall Eden Winlow Lucy Sewter +5 more... Show less This edition features updates from: The USA, India, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the European Patent Office (EPO). The Irides...
6/5/2026 4:57:37 PM Skinny labelling after Hikma v Amarin: active inducement in the US Supreme Court By Amy Howlett On 4 June 2026, the US Supreme Court handed down its judgment in Hikma Pharmaceuticals v Amarin Pharma, finding that Amarin Pharma...