Intellectual Property Archives - Page 90 of 221

Patent Wars

May 24, 2012

Sometimes so confusing that it might well pertain to a Galaxy far, far away, the ongoing complexities of the litigation over smartphone patents leave many at a loss. John D. McGonagle offers a strategic overview of the smartphone ‘patent wars’…

Back to Basics: Termination of IT Contracts

May 23, 2012

Duncan McCall QC and Adam Temple look at the rudiments of non-consensual termination for cause…

SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd: Report and Analysis

May 22, 2012

David Cran and Louise Williams consider this major CJEU judgment and its implications…

Monetary Penalty for NHS Trust

May 20, 2012

An NHS trust has had to pay a monetary penalty of £90,000 for a breach of the Data Protection Act 1998….

Outsourcing and TUPE

May 20, 2012

Rex Parry and Philip Davies consider how outsourcing may be affected by a new EAT TUPE decision that has obvious implications across the board, including for those in the IT sector…

Database Right: Latest High Court Judgment

May 9, 2012

The High Court has given judgment in a dispute about the use of online sports data relating to football matches…

Improving the EU’s Proposals for Extra-judicial Consumer Redress

May 9, 2012

Pablo Cortés outlines the recent proposals for ODR and makes constructive suggestions for improvements which will increase consumer confidence and take-up….

SAS v WPL: No Copyright says ECJ

May 1, 2012

The functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright according to the latest judgment from the ECJ. The purchaser of a licence for a program is entitled, as a rule, to observe, study or test its functioning so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program….