Oct 11, 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,...
Oct 10, 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...
Oct 08, 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...
Oct 07, 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...
Oct 02, 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,...
Sep 30, 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...
Sep 27, 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...
Sep 26, 2024 English Courts prepared to grant anti-suit injunction to protect arbitration seated outside the jurisdiction By Wes Walker Speed read On 18 September 2024, the Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024]...
Sep 20, 2024 The past week (or so) in data protection By Jamie Drucker It’s time for a short bite-sized round-up of the data protection stories which caught my eye over the last week or so. Another set of new...
Sep 20, 2024 Bristows' SnippITs - TCS v DBS: Lessons from Major IT Dispute (Bonus lessons - Part 5) By Anna Cook Henry Bentham Freya Ollerearnshaw This post is the latest in the Bristows’ SnippITs series, which pulls together the key practical takeaways from recent court decisions...
Sep 20, 2024 DSARs, trade secrets, and automated decision-making: what counts as "meaningful information about the logic involved"? By Mac Macmillan If an individual is subject to automated decision-making, including profiling, the right of subject access under GDPR includes a right to...
Sep 12, 2024 Scanning for signs of infringement at the UPC: First PI granted on the basis of indirect infringement by Munich Local Division By Eden Winlow This article was first published in Kluwer Copyright Blog [September, 2024]. On 27 August 2024, the Munich Local Division awarded a...