A team of authors from Hogan Lovells International LLP offer insights into the challenges to be overcome when seeking to establish a mobile payments service that operates in a number of EU jurisdictions…
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The judgment in Re Halliburton Energy Services Inc is now available and includes a thorough review of the cases as well as a forthright view on certain arguments in the long-running debate on mental act and computer-related exclusions…
Jeremy Holt reflects on the experience of producing an IT law book…
Peter Susman QC sets out his thoughts on how a mediator ought to behave…
The ECJ has given judgment in the cases concerning the licensing of Premier League football for broadcasting which grants territorial exclusivity on a Member State basis and which prohibits television viewers from watching the broadcasts with a decoder card in other Member States….
The ECJ’s judgment in Interflora v Marks & Spencer settles nothing in itself. But I am not sure its floral undertones will create a perfume that smells like roses to M&S – I think they will be overwhelmed by the citrus base (ie lemons). Is that really how the judgment should be viewed? I am not sure it is that simple….
The Court of Justice claims to have clarified the scope of trade mark protection in the EU but has left the High Court to determine, inter alia, whether the use by Marks & Spencer within Google’s referencing service of keywords corresponding to the trade mark of its competitor Interflora undermined any of the ‘functions’ of that trade mark and whether it was ‘free-riding’….
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Pierre Roquefeuil considers the use of personal data on the Web and the French and European mirroring regimes that prevent or punish an abusive or unauthorized use….
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Isn’t it time for us to find a way to improve the public profile of the IT law industry?…
In its latest judgment in an ongoing series, the ECJ has again ruled that a monopoly on the operation of internet casino games is justifiable only if it seeks in a consistent and systematic manner to combat the risks connected with such games. When assessing the proportionality of a monopoly, the national courts are not required to take into account the monitoring and control systems regulating companies established in another Member State…