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SCL Event Report: Negotiating and Litigation of Technology Contracts – Some Common Challenges

October 19, 2016

Darren Grayson Chng reports on the initial meeting of SCL Singapore. His article aims to provide a brief overview of the topics discussed, while going a little further into some of the intriguing points raised by the Chair and the panellists which are of universal application….

CJEU Ruling on Website Storage of IP Addresses

October 18, 2016

The Court of Justice of the European Union appears to have ruled that the operator of a website may have a legitimate interest in storing certain personal data relating to visitors to that website in order to protect itself against cyberattacks. It considers though that the dynamic internet protocol address of a visitor constitutes personal data, with respect to the operator of the website, if that operator has the legal means allowing it to identify the visitor concerned with additional information about him which is held by the internet access provider…

Editorial

October 18, 2016

Case reports and clarity This issue of the magazine is dominated by case reports. Since recent issues have been overflowing, it was an opportunity to catch up with developments in the courts, especially judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Since I had the pleasure of trawling through many of these judgments,…

Blocking Injunctions and Trade Marks: Court of Appeal Cartier Judgment

October 18, 2016

In Cartier International AG & Ors v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 658 five English ISPs (Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk and Virgin) were appealing against orders made in late 2014 which required them to block or attempt to block access by their customers to certain target websites which were advertising and selling counterfeit copies…