Patents, trademarks, copyright, technology, brands and rights, sport, technology and media law
K&L Gates merges with Taiwan firm
New-look legal team at Thomson Reuters
2Birds migrates to CEE with Prague launch
Rouse & Co founder in 7 Bedford Row move
IP boutique bags A&O IP chief
Privacy issues
29-Jan-2008On 20 November, to gasps from the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) had lost two CDs containing a copy of its entire child benefit database.
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Practising law in the 'real world'?
09-Jan-2008An increasing number of law firms are opening, or considering opening, offices in 'Second Life', the virtual three-dimensional world. But what are the associated security risks?
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Trademark changes: good for lawyers, bad for owners
05-Nov-2007On 1 October 2007 a new system for examining UK trademark applications was introduced. The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) will no longer reject trademark applications on 'relative grounds'.
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Lawyers are a football club's best signings
17-Sept-2007Transfer spending by English football clubs this summer exceeded £500m. So it's no surprise that the involvement of lawyers in the business of football continues apace.
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A&O's BlackBerry patent win soured as costs inquest criticises hours tally
28-April-2008The backlash from Mr Justice Floyd's public criticism of Allen & Overy's (A&O) £5.2m bill for work on a piece of IP litigation shows how you can win a court battle but lose the ensuing PR war.
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IP and TMT associates left behind in a promotion round to forget
21-April-2008Compared with last year, 2008 has been an unexceptional promotion round for many senior associates in the top 100 firms. But for those in the IP and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) departments, it was just another year of being almost completely overlooked.
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Privacy on parade
16-July-2007Judges are creating new privacy case law with each new ruling. And with the lack of parliamentary legislation, it's all down to the judges' discretion.
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Facing facts
07-Jan-2008Most users of social networking websites such as Facebook have no idea how their personal data can be used. It's time to educate them on the risks.
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Making your mark
07-Jan-2008From the shape of a sausage to Tarzan's yell, the courts are inundated with unusual trademark applications. Most of us are familiar with the concept of a word as a trademark, but what really is a trademark?
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World renown?
07-Jan-2008 The patent systems in the US and Europe have had some problems for a while, with an inherent tension between new and old industries such as information and communications technology (ICT) and pharmaceuticals.
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Bringing IP to Ireland
05-Nov-2007Ireland is becoming an attractive location for IP, with foreign companies moving their brands/licensing IP to those located in Ireland.
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Material witless
08-Jan-2007The exponential rise in popularity of user-generated websites has brought to the fore the fact that the copyright laws governing these media are a grey area.
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Thought policing
08-Jan-2007The Court of Appeal's decisions in Aerotel and Macrossan go some way to clarifying patent law and signal the UK's intention to concur with a European standard.
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