Pearse Ryan and Niall Donnelly continue with their valuable series of articles covering the latest position on EU legislation. This article focuses on what businesses need to know about the Trade Secrets Directive and covers the latest developments….
CPD Online: December2014/January 2015 Edition of Computers & Law Magazine
Questions arising from the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC18 – CPD: 1 hour 30 minutes…
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EU Guidelines on Cloud Computing Service Agreements
Pearse Ryan and Niall Donnelly bring us up to date and tell you what you need to know about the guidelines on SLAs in the cloud…
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Predictions 2015: (Mainly) IT Law
This set of predictions comes mainly from those working in law firms or with specialist outlooks that make aspects of IT law central to their working lives….
Editorial
This issue is dominated by predictions. I am most grateful to the many who responded to my call for predictions: you certainly entertained and intrigued me and I trust that the readers of the magazine will be similarly engaged and pleased. What was striking though was how few respondents were tempted to take up my…
Predictions 2015: IT and Legal Practice
This set of predictions comes from leading consultants and commentators operating in legal IT…
Predictions 2015: Academics’ Foresight
While Chris Marsden, Marion Oswald and Monica Horten each have a number of varied roles, they share the special sense of perspective that comes with working in universities…
Predictions 2015: Chris Dale
Since the eDisclosure oracle, Chris Dale of the eDisclosure Information Project Ltd (www.edisclosureinformation.co.uk), gave us some substantial predictions, we thought that he deserved a page of his own….
Cases Round-up
Software Patents: Court of Appeal Supports Refusal In Lantana Ltd v The Comptroller General of Patents, Design and Trade Marks [2014] EWCA Civ 1463, the Court of Appeal has supported the rulings of the Comptroller and Birss J and ruled against granting a patent in respect of software. As Arden LJ put it, ‘the invention…
VAT, Digital Content and Video Games
Jas Purewal gives his practical guide to the EU’s new VAT rules as they affect video games and digital content sales…