5/13/2026 9:51:24 AM Ransomware injunctions: 8 key learnings when anonymous cyber attackers don’t engage By Mark Brown Yen Hoe Main takeaways The courts discourage blackmail to be rewarded.Evidence, evidence, evidence: ensure contemporaneous documentation and...
5/8/2026 10:41:12 AM Podcast: Samsung v ZTE - 4th FRAND determination by the English High Court By Richard Pinckney Francion Brooks Matthew Hunt Join Richard Pinckney, Francion Brooks and Matthew Hunt for this ‘rapid reaction’ episode as they talk through 5 of the most interesting...
5/7/2026 3:08:29 PM Podcast: The UK's interim FRAND licence regime - where are we now? By Matthew Hunt Sam Harvey Join Matthew Hunt and Sam Harvey for a whistlestop tour of the past year (and a bit) of interim licence judgments, working through cases...
5/7/2026 1:47:15 PM AI Act Omnibus: EU institutions agree political deal By Charlie Hawes Vik Khurana Simon McDougall The EU Commission, Parliament and Council have each announced this morning that a political deal has been reached overnight on the AI Act...
5/1/2026 2:46:46 PM Stop press: High Court hands down FRAND judgment in Samsung v ZTE By Richard Pinckney Sophie Lawrance Francion Brooks The High Court has today handed down its judgment in Samsung v ZTE, determining the FRAND terms of a global cross-licence between the...
4/30/2026 1:43:10 PM State capital meets supercomputing – the UK Government’s Sovereign AI fund announcement By Oliver Alsop At a glanceThe UK Government has launched Sovereign AI, a £500m state-backed investment fund established to invest in British AI...
4/30/2026 12:10:02 PM Bristows - Cease & Discuss: Fashion, function, and the future of design law | the CJEU decision in Deity Shoes By Simon Clark Kyrana Hulstein In the latest episode of our podcast Cease & Discuss, Simon and Kyrana consider the CJEU’s judgment in Deity Shoes SL v. Mundorama...
4/28/2026 10:26:17 AM Can AI be sued? By Ben Coleman The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) is consulting on a Legal Statement exploring how English private law might deal with harm caused by...
4/17/2026 10:00:23 AM Ten takeaways from the EDPB's draft guidelines on scientific research By Hannah Crowther I have now waded through all 66 pages of the European Data Protection Board’s draft guidelines on scientific research, and here’s a...
4/9/2026 1:12:49 PM UK government confirms new subscription contracts rules for Spring 2027 By Francion Brooks Iva Gobac Antonia Kendrick On 2 April 2026, the UK government published its long-awaited response on the new subscription contracts regime. The announcement...
3/26/2026 9:53:33 AM A bump in the road? US DOJ subjects automotive licensing negotiation group to antitrust scrutiny By Sophie Lawrance Edwin Bond The US Department of Justice is investigating car manufacturers for participating in a licensee negotiation group (LNG), MLex has...
3/24/2026 7:10:42 PM From AI pricing algorithms to public procurement: UK Competition and Markets Authority publishes its 2026–27 annual plan By Victoria Yuan James Batsford On 23 March, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its 2026-2027 Annual Plan (the Annual Plan): the first since the...