19 Jul, 2024 The UPC PI Annual By Claire Phipps-Jones This article was first published in Kluwer Patent Blog [June, 2024]. It has been about a year since the UPC issued its first PI decision,...
18 Jul, 2024 “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t”? – Ex parte PIs at the UPC: how effective are protective letters? By Claire Phipps-Jones Melissa Dix This article was first published in Kluwer Patent Blog [July, 2024]. In June 2023, the UPC – at the Düsseldorf Local Division – granted...
18 Jul, 2024 GDPR and scientific research in the UK: what are the new government's plans? By Mac Macmillan The King's Speech yesterday (which, for readers not in the UK, sets out the government's legislative plans) promises that the new Digital...
08 Jul, 2024 Labour's planning reforms for the life sciences sector By Tim Allen Hugo Kent-Egan “To ensure available lab space scales to meet the ambitions of our fast-growing research-intensive industries, not least the life...
05 Jul, 2024 Rapid Reaction – Dexcom v Abbott – The Paris Local Division hands down the UPC’s second merits decision By Florence Plisner James Johnston The Paris Local Division of the UPC yesterday handed down its decision in an action for infringement by Dexcom and a counterclaim for...
03 Jul, 2024 Rapid Reaction - Analysis of the first ever permanent injunction at the UPC as the Düsseldorf Local Division issues a final decision By Eden Winlow In a decision issued today, the Düsseldorf Local Division has ordered the first-ever permanent injunction at the UPC following a hearing...
03 Jul, 2024 Deepfakes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly By Daniel Owen We recently attended the Society for Computers & Law event ‘Generative AI & Deepfakes: Understanding the Illusion’. Among plenty of jokes...
01 Jul, 2024 Can PLT ban me? By Naina Patel Alice Esuola-Grant Pretty Little Thing (PLT), the online fast fashion retailer, has issued a statement on the recent controversy surrounding the closure of...
27 Jun, 2024 What's in my name? Benefits and pitfalls for fashion designers of using their own name as a brand By Sarah Husslein Jerome Coulonvaux In a recent trade mark decision in Belgium, the Brussels Court of Appeal had to consider the rights of a fashion designer and the extent...
26 Jun, 2024 GDPR: more CJEU decisions on compensation for non-material damage By Mac Macmillan Two CJEU decisions in June cover very similar ground to last year's decisions in Austrian Post and VB v Natsionalna agentsia za...
19 Jun, 2024 Subject Access Requests: High Court looks at the meaning of recipients By Mac Macmillan A judgment handed down recently by the High Court looks at the “purely personal” exception under the UK GDPR, whether article 15(1)(c)...
17 Jun, 2024 Crystal Palace the latest sports club to gamble with its reputation By Rob Powell Sponsorship revenues are fundamental to the very existence of sports clubs at all levels. They are undoubtedly among the biggest income...