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The UK government has responded to the Intellectual Property Office's consultation on reforming the designs framework, revealing significant changes to both registered and unregistered design rights. With the UK's designs economy valued at over £136 billion, these reforms will reshape how digital designs, AI-generated works, and traditional designs are protected, while maintaining the speed and simplicity that users value.

The public sector has radically changed its approach to procuring goods and services from third-party suppliers. There are now huge opportunities for the private sector to work with local authorities to improve the delivery of public services.

Information Technology (IT) has always been a key component of the upstream oil and gas business, however, the upstream oil and gas industry is under continuing pressure to reduce costs, increase productivity and ensure efficient use of resources, particularly skilled human resources. To this end, companies have been focusing on core business activities, developing production capacity to match demand and using technology as a business enabler.

The DSA and DMA go hand in hand with the Data Governance Act; all three are central to the strategy of "A Europe fit for the Digital Age".

The National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare has published comprehensive recommendations that are expected to shape the future regulatory framework for AI technologies in UK healthcare. These recommendations address the safe adoption of AI across diagnostics, medical research, and clinical decision-making while establishing safeguards to maintain public confidence. The report introduces a lifecycle approach to regulation, emphasizing ongoing monitoring rather than just initial approval, a

Discover the most significant developments shaping today's patent environment through insights from our recent webinar and comprehensive analysis of current trends.

A discussion on the predictions for the IT law developments in 2013.

The European Commission has adopted a new Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation, which came into effect on 1 May 2004. The Regulation provides a "safe harbour" from the effects of EU competition rules for certain types of technology licence agreements.

The current challenging economic conditions are driving additional outsourcing activities.

The pros and cons of Open Source Software.

From Orkney to Islington, smart technologies are changing the way communities interact with their environment and are allowing them to utilise existing infrastructure to its maximum potential, often in new and exciting ways.

As agentic AI systems rapidly advance beyond human cognitive capacity to oversee them, the traditional safety approach of keeping humans in the loop becomes obsolete for high-complexity, high-consequence deployments. This analysis explores why current governance frameworks are inadequate and proposes a new paradigm where machine oversight re-empowers human control over increasingly autonomous AI agents.

While organised crime largely controls hard copy piracy, the general public downloads soft copy illegal content. A different approach will be needed to combat the newer threat of digital theft.