Intellectual Property Archives - Page 185 of 221

Challenges to Database Information Retrieval

August 31, 2003

Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….

Employee IT Inventors: Sharing in the profits?

June 30, 2003

Dr Rosanna Cooper looks at proposed changes to the UK Patents Act 1977 and reviews the current law on employee inventors….

Home Working Options and Solutions

June 30, 2003

Simon Bennett, IT Director at Tarlo Lyons Solicitors, considers the increased demand for flexible working and the implications for IT departments….

Is There a Duty to Warn?

June 30, 2003

Those involved in advising in the context of systems and outsourcing disputes can find a lot of inspiration in the cases coming out of the Technology and Construction Court – even when those cases deal with purely construction matters. Many IT lawyers remain unaware of them, and this article from Richard Stevens is intended to highlight one aspect of a supplier’s (or service provider’s) duty: the so-called duty to warn….

Open Source : the GNU Face of Software Development

June 30, 2003

Martin Lau of Bird & Bird summarises the legal and practical issues surrounding open source software, and suggests some practical approaches….

Freeserve Forces OFTEL to Reassess BT Broadband Pricing

June 30, 2003

Davina Garrod examines the long-running battle between Freeserve and Oftel….

Digital Dictation

June 30, 2003

Delia Venables attended the series of talks on this topic at the LegalTech Solicitors 2003 Conference at the end of May and has expanded her report to cover the topic in a more general way….

High Crimes and Misdemeanours: Breaking the Code of E-books and DVDs

June 30, 2003

IT and copyright breach seem to go together like a horse and carriage. Iain G. Mitchell QC looks at the problem, the technology and the law….

Backbytes

June 30, 2003

Sam’s song. I missed writing about the issue before last which was packed with IT contract cases. One of the most interesting comments was Richard Stephens on SAM v Hedley, a case which looked at the legal status of bugs in software, the effect of “entire agreement” clauses and the validity of limitation of liability…

Small firm IT – a (better) service is needed

June 30, 2003

Although originally drafted at the start of the year (as a result of research into law firm IT) the relevance of this article by Alistair Morrison has recently been confirmed by the publication of a Law Society investigation into ITC in small to medium-sized firms. (Research Study 46 – see www.research.lawsociety.org.uk.) The Society’s report, like this paper, highlights problems facing such firms. This article additionally suggests some potential avenues of relief. Most practitioners and commentators now accept that IT is not an optional extra, and may indeed hold the only route to future profitability. The purpose of this article is to suggest a way in which the necessity which is IT can be made less awkward for small law firms….