20 Jan, 2025 The Riyadh design law treaty – an important milestone in the history of the industrial design protection By Jérôme Coulonvaux In a recent article, we examined the EU design legislative reform and how it will impact the legal system for design protection in the EU...
17 Jan, 2025 What are the implications of the new DMCC digital markets regime on (personal) data? By Hannah Crowther Francion Brooks This month, the CMA began the process of determining which firms have strategic market status with respect to a particular digital...
16 Jan, 2025 “Cold Palmer”: is the conversation about image rights about to heat up? By Sebastian Stewart In June 2023, I wrote about the lack of clear legal protection for individual image rights in the UK, highlighting the resulting...
14 Jan, 2025 Copyright and AI: machine-readable reservation of rights and the need for a universal standard By Toby Headdon It is clear from the recent consultation paper on ‘Copyright and Artificial Intelligence’ that the UK Government would like to introduce...
13 Jan, 2025 The rise of robotics and AI: Impacts on human employment By Chris Holder Emily Atkinson The recent announcement by the UK government on its investment in AI marks a significant step towards embracing this technological...
10 Jan, 2025 The end of the Shareholder Rule By Wes Walker Alan Sansom For over a century, when a company has been sued by a shareholder, difficult questions have arisen about privilege. The rule in English...
10 Jan, 2025 All aboard! CJEU decides no need for your title on your train ticket By Subha Kumar Another year begins and the CJEU is (perhaps unsurprisingly!) already busy with at least 4 judgments landing since the start of 2025....
20 Dec, 2024 Will the CJEU referral in BSH/Electrolux (C‑339/22) clean up the jurisdiction to hear infringement actions for foreign patents? By Chloe Dickson The BSH/Electrolux case (C‑339/22) concerns issues of jurisdiction where a patentee alleges infringement of foreign designations of a...
19 Dec, 2024 Déjà VPAG – 2025 repayment percentage announced By Hugo Kent-Egan Anna Hall On 16 December, the DHSC announced that the 2025 headline VPAG repayment percentage for sales of “newer medicines” will be 22.9%. This...
17 Dec, 2024 Competition in digital markets: comparing the approach across Europe By Francion Brooks The new digital markets competition regime in the UK, which applies to firms with ‘strategic market status’, will come into force on 1...
16 Dec, 2024 Time’s up: the first Online Safety Act requirements come into force By Subha Kumar Faye Harrison On 16 December 2024, Ofcom published its first codes of practice and guidance under the Online Safety Act (OSA), relating to illegal...
12 Dec, 2024 SynbiTECH 2024: Engineering biology’s promise for the future By Ellen Lambrix In London last week, over 400 attendees and speakers gathered together for the fifth annual SynbiTECH conference in London. The event...