Trade Marks, Search Engines and Fair Play
Maureen Daly presents an analysis of the differing approaches in the US and various European jurisdictions to allegations of trade mark infringement and unfair competition by search engines…
Intellectual Property
EMU: The IT Implications
Ben Goodger is a Partner at Willoughby & Partners, the intellectual property specialists based in Oxford. He is a member of the SCL Council. He can be contacted by e-mail at ben@iprights.com or on 01865 791990….
IT and the London Civil Courts
This article is an edited version of Lord Justice Brooke’s lecture to the London Solicitors Litigation Association….
Data Tagging
Adam Westbrooke argues the importance of data tagging but explains that its importance does not dictate that it must be complex….
Microsoft: Victim or Villain?
Microsoft’s battles with anti-trust regulators will continue even if Microsoft win their appeal in April 1998 and set aside the interiminjunction awarded in December 1997….
Trespass on the Web
Although there is a dearth of English judicial pronouncement about torts committed on or via the Internet, a number of decisions of US courts have considered the question of whether a cause of action in trespass lies against those who use and copy data from another’s Web site. Might similar results occur were such matters to be litigated here asks Helen Barnard…
Legal Aspects of Information Security Management
In internet commerce[1] where technology risks such as systems failure or attacks are particularly accentuated and the “risk turnaround time” is much faster, the need to design and develop a proactive and structured legal protection regime has become a corporate imperative. Zaid Hamzah points the way forward in designing and developing a legal risk management system in Internet commerce at both the strategic as well as the operational level that would protect enterprises from legal problems that might flow from information security risks….
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Editorial
Making a call for more contributions, Laurence Eastham thinks it’s time to revisit the GDPR and just about time to speculate about the effect of Brexit…
Database Rights Regulations: Protecting Investment Risk
Database Rights Regulations: Protecting Investment Risk…
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LSLA and Bar Report on Technology in the Civil Courts
At the end of June this year, the London Solicitors Litigation Association and selected members of the Bar published a joint report, The Practitioner Working Group Report on Investment in Technology in the Civil Courts of England and Wales. The report was commented on by Lord Justice Brooke in his speech to the LSLA and is available in full as a Web article on the SCL site….
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