A Streetcar Named Mistake
Google has mistakenly been collecting wi-fi data in the course of its Street View data collection exercise. What’s it going to do about it?…
Intellectual Property
The Meaning of ‘Perpetual’: A Lasting Decision?
In BMS Computer Solutions Limited v AB Agri Limited [2010] EWHC 464 (Ch), the High Court has considered the meaning of the word ‘perpetual’ in a software licence. Mike Butler and Gillian Dennis report and comment on the decision….
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The Coalition and Digital Politics
What does the new government and new Parliament mean for IT and IT lawyers?…
Red Sky in the Morning: Sellers’ Warning
An important High Court ruling on software exemption clauses is a further reminder of the need for suppliers to give full and accurate information to potential buyers….
Computer Patents: EPO Ruling Published
The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office has handed down its opinion on the referral concerning software patents….
Fixture List Protection
Susan Barty and Lucy Kilshaw report on a High Court ruling of 24 April which held that football fixture lists can be protected by copyright and which makes interesting reading for those interested in the database right….
Criminalising Patent Infringement in the EU
Rob Jackson reviews a history of attempts to seek the criminalisation of patent rights, including recent moves by the EU Competitiveness Council, and considers the implications of such a change….
21 Today
No, it’s not the Editor’s birthday, notwithstanding that damnably deceptive youthful look. It is SCL’s Twitter followers who have the key to the door. But what is it the door to?…
Editorial
When it first appeared as a twinkle in the Queen’s Speech, I never believed for one moment that the Digital Economy Bill could become the Digital Economy Act 2010. I was wrong. Of course, if we lived in a rational world, I would have been right. But the Act went through most of its legislative…
Not Such a SoftLanding
Claire Purkiss and James Brunger look at a recent TCC case and highlight the dangers of proceeding with a business relationship without the protection and certainty that a contract to govern that relationship can bring….