Limitation Clauses, Restitution and Doomed Computer Systems
The recent case of South West Water v ICL has provoked intense interest and Nick Sarker analyses it for us….
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E- Commerce and its Impact on Pricing
Ben Goodger is a Partner at Willoughby & Partners. He may becontacted at ben@iprights.com ‘A long time ago – maybe last Thursday…’ is how one of the Winnie thePooh stories starts. It’s a bit like that with any discussion of the world ofe-commerce. There are bound to be things in this article which are out-of-dateby…
MARS #2: Is there life in Mars?
Richard Harrison is a partner in Laytons, a firm of solicitorswith four offices nationwide. He can be contacted on 0171 842 8000 or richardh@laytons.com The last issue contained William Cook’s detailed review of the implicationsof Mars UK Limited v Teknowledge Limited (11 June 1999). This was asuperb analysis of both the issue of confidence in…
Intellectual Property in a Peripheral Jurisdiction
Annual Lecture to the Scottish Group of Society for Computers & Law, 22 June 1999…
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Beyond Technological Solutions for the Protection of Confidential Commercial Information on the Internet
C D Freedman is Herchel Smith Research Fellow in the Law ofIntellectual Property at Emmanuel College. He can be contacted at EmmanualCollege, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3AP or via e-mail at cdf25@cam.ac.uk The Internet is no place for secrets, commercial or otherwise. It is reasonable to assume that by now all prudent business people…
RE Allison; v Bow Street Magistrates’ Court, Ex Parte Allison
On 5 August 1999, the House of Lords ruled on an extraditioncase which has major implications for computer misuse cases. A report taken fromthe Butterworths ‘next-day’ reporting service, All ER Direct is reproducedbelow. The case is now fully reported at [1993] 4 All ER 1. The applicant was arrested at the request of the United…
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Appraising Your Knowledge Management Initiative
Chris Gough is a Consultant at Grant Thornton. He may becontacted on 0171 728 2289 or at Chris.H.Gough@gtuk.com. All industries, and service industries particularly, have to mobilise andexploit their intangible or invisible assets. The implementation of a knowledgemanagement initiative requires a comprehensive approach that addresses afirm’s culture, its business processes, its management, leadership and its…
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Product Review: OCR ‘Pen’ Devices
Peter Sommer is Research Fellow at the Computer SecurityResearch Centre, London School of Economics, earns most of his income fromadvising insurers and in expert witness work and is Special Advisor to theCommons Trade and Industry Select Committee on E-Commerce. Details:http://csrc.lse.ac.uk/Sommer/sommer.html Nearly all of the Optical Character Recognition packages available assume thatthe source material consists of…
Management of Internet Names and Addresses
This analysis was prepared by Cobbetts of Manchester.
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Data Protection Act 1998: Preparing for Compliance
Tim Pullan is a solicitor in the IT Telecoms Group at ArnheimTite & Lewis. He may be contacted at tim.pullan@uk.pwcglobal.com. On 12 July, the Government announced that the UK Data Protection Act 1998will come into force on the 1 March 2000. This announcement has ended months ofspeculation about the start date for the new legislation,…
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