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On 12 January 2016, the UK government published a consultation in response to the IPO proposal.

Section 97A of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 empowers the High Court to to grant an injunction against a service provider.

UK schoolchildren are nowadays born ‘digital natives'; they've never known a world without the internet, smart phones and tablets.

The debate over whether and to what extent it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented inventions has heated up again following the decision in Astron Clinica and others Applications [2008] EWHC 85 (Pat).

Pink Floyd have taken the crown in their recent royalty dispute with record company EMI.

The launch of a new form of encryption involving the use of what has been highlighted as an unbreakable system has ironically come at a time when the Ministry of Defence begins its investigation into the loss of an un-encrypted computer hard drive containing the personal data of up to 1.7 million people who had made enquiries about joining the armed forces.

On 9th June 2009, Facebook Inc., the highly popular social networking company based in the United States, publicly announced that beginning Saturday 13th June at 12:01am US EDT pre-existing Facebook account holders will be permitted to create personalised URLs to direct interested parties to their Facebook pages.

Brand owners have a number of possible ways of “recovering” from cyber-squatters, domain names that incorporate their trade marks.

CL-IPs is an educational YouTube series made by the law firm Mayer Brown International. The goal of the series is to help online content producers understand legal issues in the field of intellectual property and technology.

Microsoft has failed in its appeal to overturn a ruling which bars it from selling its Word software.

The High Court has recently confirmed the legal principle that there is no property in the content of an email.

The growth of the electronic communications sector and the changes in its regulatory framework have increased the genuine need for an efficient dispute resolution system.

Earlier this week, Apple's CEO Tim Cook and Samsung's CEO Choi Gee–Sung met in San Francisco to explore ways to settle their differences.

Many people will be familiar with the mistake of sending an email to the wrong recipient, but today, Surrey County Council is faced with the financial consequences of making the mistake of emailing sensitive personal data.

Broadband Delivery UK ("BDUK") has released a report on lessons learnt from the Superfast rural broadband pilots in Cumbria, Herefordshire / Gloucestershire borders, North Yorkshire and the Highlands and Islands in Scotland.

On 28 July 2011 in the case of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Anor v British Telecom [2011] EWHC 1981 (CH), and for the first time in UK history, the High Court granted an injunction against an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Technip, a leading worldwide engineering and construction company, has agreed to pay $338 million to avoid US prosecution and settle civil claims in relation to charges for conspiracy and violation of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 ("FCPA").