The EPO has asked for views on the referral of computer patent cases – and SCL is using its new web site to feed through views. Meanwhile the Patent Court has emphasised the topicality of the issues, with a new judgment rejecting two appeals, from AT&T and CVON….
Read More… from Computer Program Patents: EPO Consultation and New Case
The Government response to the European Commission’s Green Paper has now been published….
Read More… from Government Response on ‘Copyright in the Knowledge Economy’
Pride As I well recall from the birth of my first child and as any new father knows, the amount of pride one feels in a new issue does not always relate to the level of one’s contribution. I am particularly proud of this issue of the magazine and that pride is in no way…
The latest move by Facebook chimes with my dilemma over SCL profiles. Who has legal control over the data?…
Various European courts are awaiting answers from the European Court of Justice regarding search engine use of sponsored keywords. Susan Barty, Isabel Davies and Phillip Carnell offer a review of the most significant and most recent questions to be referred to the ECJ about search engine keywords and trade mark infringement…
We have finally decided to start a Trustees’ blog, about SCL, about being Trustees, about being tech lawyers, about technology in our practices, about what’s happening behind (and in front of) the scenes at SCL, and whatever feels important to us from time to time….
Renzo Marchini sounds a timely warning about the need to put in place one, admittedly shaky, piece of protection against supplier insolvency…
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Bridget Treacy analyses how over-regulation and concern over data privacy may keep the cloud from rising high…
Paul Gershlick analyses an important recent case. In J Murphy & Sons Limited v Johnston Precast Limited, the Regus severability approach was followed and a novel implied contract term which has major implications for IT contracts appears to be recognised: an ongoing implied duty to warn….
Read More… from Severability Latest and an Implied Duty to Warn
SCL has delivered its response to the IPO consultation © The Future: Developing a Copyright Agenda for the 21st Century…