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James Major, partner and Corinna Harris, professional support lawyer in Clyde & Co’s London office explain how employers should respond to incidents of work-related cyberbullying.

"No Loving in Work E-mail", we commented on a case involving an American employee who used a laptop provided by her employer to send and receive e-mails to and from her lawyer.

R. Raphael & Sons plc (Raphaels) has received fines totalling £1,887,252 from the FCA and PRA for repeated failings in relation to inadequate systems and controls supporting the oversight

The past 18 months have seen numerous IT failures in the financial services sector.

The Information Commissioner’s Office ("ICO") has issued revised guidance on how website operators can comply with the change in the law on cookies, which came into effect on 26 May 2011 and must be complied with in the UK by 26 May 2012.

The operators of the Newzbin web site – which provided helpful tools to enable people to share unauthorised content such as films – infringed the copyright owners’ content in providing that service by authorising the copying of them, the High Court has ruled.

In a landmark ruling, the UK’s largest Internet Service Provider ("ISP") has been ordered by the High Court to block access to a website.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has held that framing copyright protected videos is not a copyright infringement, even if the framing occurred without the permission of the copyright owner.

Two recent court decisions highlighted perceived shortcomings of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (the "Act"), which may finally be remedied later this year.

The Police and Justice Act 2006, which received royal assent on 8 November, modifies the Computer Misuse Act 1990 making it an offence to launch a denial of service attack in the UK and increasing the penalties for offences committed under the CMA.

An eagerly awaited decision looked at the legality of linking to content on the World Wide Web (WWW) in terms of copyright infringement.

Communication technology is an area where the importance and financial value of intellectual property is relatively visible

The ECJ decision in L’Oréal SA v eBay International AG 2011, provides more protection for brand owners.

The UK Intellectual Property Office has released formal guidance for examining patent applications involving software and AI inventions, marking a significant shift from the nearly 20-year-old Aerotel test. Following the landmark Emotional Perception Supreme Court ruling, the new three-step approach harmonises UK patent examination with European Patent Office practices, potentially opening new opportunities for software and AI innovators to protect their inventions in the UK.

The U.K. Court of Appeal has upheld a decision giving a University ownership of copyright in software programmes, even though the programmes were written by one of the sponsors of an R&D project carried out at the University. The judgement shows the importance of documenting in detail who should own the intellectual property rights created in a collaborative project.

A recent appeal from the UK Trade Marks Registry to the High Court has emphasised the need for trade mark owners to file evidence correctly, particularly when seeking to establish a reputation in a mark.