When Will Google Remove Google Spain?
David Chaplin reflects on his experience of dealing with a de-listing notice, and contemplates the wider implications for publishers and seekers after information…
Intellectual Property
Software Patents: Court of Appeal Ruling
In a recent judgment, the Court of Appeal has supported the refusal of a patent for a computer process…
Patent Trolls and the New EU Patent Regime
Tom Phipps considers whether the patent troll, a real risk to innovation in the USA, might come and lurk under the bridges around the EU’s new unitary patent regime…
Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill Published
The controversial Bill and related documents are now available….
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Reviewing the Article 29 Opinion on IoT
The Article 29 Working Party has weighed in with an Opinion on the Internet of Things. Paul Gershlick reviews the Working Party’s work, welcomes it so far as it goes but finds it wanting…
Web Sites, Jurisdiction and Copyrighted Pornographic Pictures
The High Court has ruled in a copyright claim concerning content on a web site relating to ‘escorts’ and, most interestingly, has turned its attention to the issue of whether a web site was targeted at the UK…
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SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law Programme – A-Z of Data Protection in the IT World
Alexander de Gaye reports on the seventh module in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, an event held at Fieldfisher on Wednesday 5 November 2014…
The Successful Management of Delay in IT Outsourcing Contracts
Clive Davies is concerned that relief event regimes in outsourcing contracts are not having the desired effect and that they may sometimes turn projects that are delayed into projects that are destroyed…
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Google Keywords: Interflora v M & S – Back to Square One?
The Court of Appeal has detected errors in the judgment of Arnold J that backed Interflora’s claim against Marks and Spencer and has remitted the case for a further hearing…
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PSD2 Redux – Updated
Simon Deane-Johns updates his review of the revised proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market. This version supersedes his article published online in mid-October and a further revision of that article; it takes account of a number of later revisions to the draft….