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The trend of IP enforcement continues with almost all sectors experiencing some activity. Combined with this, we explore some other interesting developments.

The CJEU has clarified the scope of the battleground between designers and those that challenge the validity of Community design rights.

The latest compromise text of the AI Act was voted on today by the leading parliamentary committees of the European Parliament.

In a recent opinion of Advocate General Wathelet, hyperlinking to unauthorised content on the internet may not amount to copyright infringement.

The push to harmonise both the substantive and procedural aspects of European intellectual property laws and to create pan-European rights gathers ever-increasing momentum.

2015 was a year of significant developments in tech law. The EU's highest court – the CJEU – published a number of landmark judgments throughout the year.

When Ubisoft shut down servers for its 2014 racing game The Crew, players lost access to content they had purchased. This sparked a European Citizens' Initiative gathering 1.3 million signatures demanding publishers keep games playable after commercial support ends. The European Commission's response and its implications for digital content sellers across all sectors reveal critical obligations under existing EU consumer protection law.

Welcome to the 37th issue of MHC Times. In this issue, we look at Ireland's relationship with Europe and what we have to offer as a country across various sectors.

Dallas Buyers Club LLC ('DBC') is based in the United States and claims to be the owner of the copyright in the 2013 biopic 'Dallas Buyers Club'.

In conjunction with the upcoming World IP Day (26 April 2015), we held an in-house counsel masterclass on recent developments in IP and social media law.

In early 2015, Ireland became the first EU Member State to introduce plain or standardised packaging for tobacco products.

The Irish Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against a court ordered or "common law" graduated response, or three strikes, system.

In May 2016, the European Commission published proposals to prevent companies and online retailers, who sell in or into the EU, from engaging in ‘geo-blocking' and other geographical restrictions.

Advocate General Szpunar (the "AG") of the Court of Justice ("CJEU") has stated in a noteworthy opinion that the E-Commerce Directive1 (the "Directive") does not preclude host providers from being ordered,

Two recent CJEU cases demonstrate how geo-blocking intersects with intellectual property rights in the digital age. The Anne Frank diary case clarifies when geo-blocking can prevent copyright infringement claims, while the PAUSCHA trade mark dispute questions whether domain names can infringe national trade marks when websites are geo-blocked from protected territories.

A potentially landmark copyright case has been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), raising, for the first time, the question of how EU copyright law applies...

The EU AI Office released the first draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (the "Code") on 14 November 2024.