A substantial, warming and slightly spicy soup as a first course in the predictions banquet – predictions from Chris Marsden, John Yates, Peter Sommer, Lilian Edwards, Mike Taylor, Jan Durant, Stephen Mason, Shireen Smith, Bryan King, Joe Reevy and Nick Holmes. Don’t forget the amuse bouche posted on 30 November with the predictions from Kit Burden and Robert Buchan…
A US court has awarded enormous damages in a dispute over a breach of IP rights…
Read More… from Massive Damages Award in Oracle/SAP US Litigation
Our ambition in SCL as a society is to embrace the wider aspects of technology as it applies to the law…
Dervish Tayyip identifies the key problems for cloud computing from an IT lawyer’s perspective and suggests a number of attainable solutions. These are his personal views and not those of Microsoft for whom he is head of UK Legal….
Read More… from Navigating the Cloud: Solutions for a Cloud Computing Age
John Yates explains how to adapt and survive in the new, harsher environment facing public sector procurement…
Read More… from Public Sector Procurement – A Storm is Threatening
David Chaplin reports on the SCL Seminar ‘Legal Issues in Financial Services IT Provision’ held at Bird & Bird’s offices on 9 November….
Sandra Potter and Phil Farrelly look at cloud computing generally, and the issues pertaining to e-disclosure and cross-border conflicts in particular…
Roger Bickerstaff provides some insights into forthcoming developments in Computers & Law and the SCL more generally…
Parallel Imports and Trade Marks: Oracle v M-Tech In Oracle v M-Tech [2010] EWCA Civ 997, the Court of Appeal held that, in a trade mark infringement case involving importation of Sun branded computer hardware from outside the EEA, M-Tech was entitled to argue that Articles 28 to 30 and 81 of the EC Treaty…
The Software Symposium Conference had some great sessions, international participation and cutting edge discussion….