Management of Internet Names and Addresses
This analysis was prepared by Cobbetts of Manchester.
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Litigation & DR
Mars and Bars on Software Protection
William Cook is a solicitor in the Intellectual Property andCommunications Groups at Simmons & Simmons, with particular experience inpatent litigation and advice relating to copyright and other forms of protectionof computer software. The recent decision in Mars UK Ltd v Teknowledge (11 June 1999) raisesimportant issues for companies making goods containing computer software, inparticular concerning…
Scottish Courts Online
John Gailey of Advanced Recognition Ltd, Member Scottish GroupCommittee & John Sibbald of Professional Library Services, Chairman of theScottish Group consider the new Scottish Court Web site (www.scotcourts.gov.uk),launched on 24 February, which marked a milestone in the justice system not onlyfor Scotland but for the United Kingdom as a whole. The authors review the siteand…
Are You Secure?
Whether they like it or not, lawyers will soon have to respond to client demand to provide their services electronically….
E-commerce Policy Developments in the UK and the EU
Heather Rowe is a Partner at Lovell White Durrant….
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Future Regulation of E-commerce and Commercial Communications in the EU
Iain G. Mitchell QC, a member of the Scottish Committee of theSociety for Computers and Law, Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Lawyers’ EuropeanGroup, and a Senior Counsel at the Scottish Bar with an extensive civilpractice, reports on a joint meeting of the Scottish Group and the ScottishLawyers’ European Group held in Edinburgh on Thursday 22 January…
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What Remedies are Available for a Supplier if its Rights in Software are Innocently Infringed?
Jonathan Carter Shaw is a solicitor in Manches’ IT group and isbased in Oxford. He can be contacted by telephone on 01865 722 106 or by e-mailon jonathan.cartershaw@manches.co.uk In Microsoft Corporation v Plato Technology Limited [1999]Masons CLR 87, the High Court stated that,where a person had infringedintellectual property rights in software, the relief it would…
Fallen Angel: Demon Faces Defamation Claim
Kit Burden is a Senior Assistant Solicitor at Barlow Lyde &Gilbert Kit specialises in IT, IP and commercial contract issues. As the volume of communication via the Internet by both social andbusiness users continues to rocket upwards, attention has increasingly focusedon the role played by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in particular inrelation to the postings…
DP News: State of Play in Wilmslow…
Rosemary Jay is Legal Adviser to the Data Protection Registrar.This is the first in an occasional series of updating columns. It has to be said that the victories of local football teams have figuredlarge in discussions in the Registrar’s office over the last few weeks anddays but some time has been spared to consider other…
Data Exchange Agreements in Litigation – the Impact of the Woolf Reforms
Lucinda Acland is a solicitor at Lovell White Durrant whose role as litigation support and IT lawyer is to maximise the use of technology in support of litigation….
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