Mr Justice Arnold has ruled in favour of Interflora in its long-running battle with M&S, finding that Marks and Spencer’s use of the “Interflora” trade mark as a Google AdWord to advertise its M&S Flowers & Gifts website was trade mark infringement…
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In the unlikely context of insolvency proceedings, the High Court in Northern Ireland has ruled on a claim to confidentiality in a posting on Facebook…
An Irish court has granted an interlocutory injunction against Facebook and Google and required YouTube, Google, Facebook and a number of web sites to permanently remove a video and accompanying material which wrongly identified a man dodging a taxi fare and defamed him with a series of offensive comments…
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Joel Smith and Rachel Montagnon analyse and comment on the Supreme Court ruling in PRCA v NLA…
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Spurred by the recent ICO survey of business awareness of the EU DP reform package, Laurence Eastham has an awful confession…
The Information Commissioner’s Office has released a report which highlights uncertainty on the implications and cost of EU data protection reform…
In the first SCL meeting in Dublin, held at Matheson, the topic was ‘Law and Regulation as we move to the Cloud’ John O’Connor reports on the event…
The EU Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to Motorola Mobility relating to its potential misuse of mobile phone standard-essential patents…
Ashley Avery reports on the ‘hot topic’ seminar on augmented reality held on 24 April at Travers Smith LLP….
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Is cookie compliance going to hamper innovation such as personalisation? In a forthcoming SCL meeting, worlds collide and the resulting compound could be gold for IT lawyers….