In a volume litigation claim in the Patents County Court, where ACS Law were acting for the claimants, applications for default judgment against unnamed defendants have been refused. Light, and doubt, have been cast on the basis of claim insofar as it rests on ‘allowing infringement’….
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I challenge readers to come up with the best way of marrying iterative development methodolgies to IT contracts…
According to Kroll Ontrack’s Fourth Annual Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Survey, there are plenty of organisations creating policies but few are making full use of the tools and technologies available to address ESI challenges….
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Scottish Society for Computers and Law Chairman, Iain G. Mitchell QC has been appointed as the next United Kingdom representative on the IT Committee of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe for a period of three years….
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Mark Taylor and Tom Wood give an account of a recent High Court case that ruled that users of online news monitoring services may require a copyright licence…
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You may want to do the Christmas shopping, have a family day or even go to the cinema. But Lord Justice Moore-Bick says you can’t….
Eduardo Ustaran analyses the EU Commission’s newly published strategy document which contains its proposals for strengthening EU data protection rules….
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A newly published report, based on a survey of 100 lawyers, suggests a reassuring answer to the question: ‘are lawyers Luddites or early adopters?’…
For years web searching and Google have been synonymous – now the searching is to be through Google’s own data. What intrigues me about the EU Commission’s investigation is how they are going to find the relevant material….
A substantial, warming and slightly spicy soup as a first course in the predictions banquet – predictions from Chris Marsden, John Yates, Peter Sommer, Lilian Edwards, Mike Taylor, Jan Durant, Stephen Mason, Shireen Smith, Bryan King, Joe Reevy and Nick Holmes. Don’t forget the amuse bouche posted on 30 November with the predictions from Kit Burden and Robert Buchan…