Samsung Patent ‘Truce’: EU Commission Consults
The EU Commission is looking for views on the commitments offered by Samsung Electronics regarding use of SEPs…
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Intellectual Property
Be Trained . . . Get Accredited: Introducing the SCL Foundations of IT Law Programme
Practising IT Law is not for the faint-hearted. At any moment you could be asked to advise on any number of issues, from the liabilities and risks in an IT supply contract, through data protection of employee records to complex e-commerce issues. All the advice you give must be thoroughly grounded in the relevant law…
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Silly Terms and Conditions
An article in the FT has caused a bit of a stir and I wonder what SCL members think…
ICO Monetary Penalty Overturned for the First Time – Where Next for MPNs?
Martin Sloan covers the first successful challenge to a monetary penalty notice and considers its implications…
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Run Down by a Hype Cycle
I am rather late to Gartner’s hype cycle for 2013 but it is all a bit frightening for those pedestrians among us who are struggling to keep up. I have some sympathetic suggestions for IT lawyers….
Augmented Reality Too
Joanne Frears continues her series of articles on aspects of augmented reality, based on her experiences of advising some of the most cutting-edge of AR providers…
E-disclosure and Sanctions
Gordon Exall looks at a recent judgment dealing with compliance with an unless order in the context of e-disclosure…
BYOD: Win-win or Zero-sum Game?
BYOD appears to be as resistible as the incoming tide. Nigel Miller, who is speaking on this topic at SCL forthcoming Annual Conference, focuses on the risks that arise from it and the combination of technology and corporate policy that best addresses those risks….
Whither PSD2?
Simon Deane-Johns reviews the latest proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market…
ECJ Ruling on Online Jurisdiction
The Court of Justice of the European Union has published its judgment in Case C-170/12 Pinckney v KDG Mediatech AG, a case concerning jurisdiction where online copyright is alleged…