03 May, 2024 English now the dominant language in the UPC – and guiding principles from the Court of Appeal for applications to change the language of proceedings By Eden Winlow Rebecca Daramola The rise of English language proceedings in the UPC As readers may recall from a previous post on UPC statistics, the UPC now publishes a...
26 Apr, 2024 The past week in data protection By Jamie Drucker It’s been a busy week in the world of data protection and so a bite sized round-up is in order: IAB Europe issued a statement expressing...
23 Apr, 2024 Bristows at the Games Industry Law Summit: On Tour II By Charles Purdie Alice Esuola-Grant Last week, two of our associates, Charlie Purdie and Alice Esuola-Grant, attended the 2024 edition of the Games Industry Law Summit: On...
23 Apr, 2024 Administrative Court (re-)confirms CMA's right to raid domestic premises By Sophie Lawrance I spoke to GCR on 22 April [full article behind paywall] about the Administrative Court judgment on the CMA's appeal of a judgment in...
22 Apr, 2024 Open justice and the UPC – An analysis of the Court of Appeal’s decision in relation to access to documents By Florence Plisner On 10 April 2024, The Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) handed down its eagerly awaited decision in relation to the...
16 Apr, 2024 UK video games consumer market valued at £7.82bn in 2023 By Charles Purdie Last week, Ukie (the UK's video games and interactive entertainment trade body) published its Consumer Market Valuation Report, valuing...
12 Apr, 2024 CMA's potential competition concerns for Foundation Models/Generative AI By Matthew Hunt The CMA has published an update paper building upon its initial review of Foundation Models (FMs) (the technology underpinning generative...
10 Apr, 2024 Rapid reaction - UPC Transparency - Court of Appeal Decision on Access to Documents By Eden Winlow Ocado v Autostore (573437/2023/ UPC_CFI_11/2023) The UPC Court of Appeal has, in a decision issued today, dismissed Ocado's appeal...
09 Apr, 2024 Spring 2024: a safer era for connectable products or just yet more red tape? By Toby Crick Charlie Hawes Antonia Kendrick Now that Spring is around the corner, it’s time to engage with the UK’s security regime for consumer connectable products, with new...
08 Apr, 2024 Decisions by the UPC local divisions on the approach to confidentiality clubs By Rebecca Daramola As readers will recall from the post published on 20 March 2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division issued an order in 10x Genomics v Curio...
02 Apr, 2024 Is the UPC evolving into an English-language court? By Eden Winlow Since November 2023, companies have filed more UPC actions in English than in German. German remains the dominant language of proceedings...
28 Mar, 2024 Do you need to take data deletion out of the "too difficult" box? By Mac Macmillan Back in 2016, when GDPR was a mere blot on the horizon, I had a client who already had a data retention policy for their organisation. It...