On 19 May the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published a joint policy statement setting out their shared views on the relationship...

Digital platforms continue to be a hot topic for competition policy. Both the Commission and the CMA have been active over the last year in proposing and consulting on ways to ensure the effective competition in digital markets.

The severe consequences of breaching competition law can sometimes have a chilling effect on firms considering engaging in collaborative action.

To that end, the Commission recently published a Working Paper setting out the current guidelines on so-called "dual role" agents.

Earlier this year we commented on the commitments given by Aspen Pharma to bring the Commission investigation into its high prices to a close.

The CJEU was asked to decide whether the communication to the public of a phonogram recording fixed in an audio visual recording and then broadcast on TV

The CJEU was asked to decide whether the communication to the public of a phonogram recording fixed in an audio visual recording and then broadcast on TV channels triggers...

The US Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 applies to many UK companies often because they have a US listed parent and so must comply with the "Group’s" requirements. If you are a supplier of IT software or services or software to such companies, from July 2006 customers may well be asking you if your products and services are SOX compliant.

On its part, the UK government recently introduced legislation to establish a new route for the lawful supply of prescription-only medicines from GB to NI.

The case is 1-800 Contacts v FTC. To recap on the background, 1-800 Contacts is the leading online retailer of contact lenses in the US.

Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) Decisions are available on the EPO website at http://legal.european-patent-office.org/dg3/updates/index.htm and similarly decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) can be downloaded from http://www.european-patent-office.org/dg3/g_dec/index.htm.

The CMA has published an update paper building upon its initial review of Foundation Models (FMs) (the technology underpinning generative AI tools such as ChatGPT).

Human rights issues are attracting national publicity in the run-up to the general election but they have impacted upon employment law since the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was introduced in 1950. The Human Rights Act (the "Act") incorporated Convention rights directly into English law in October 2000.

As a regulatory lawyer long-steeped in the world of stem cells and regenerative medicine, I'm bound to latch onto the title of a recent Nature piece with particular interest.

Two recent decisions demonstrate how competition legislation can affect the pricing conduct of companies with interests in data and IT. They are summarised briefly below.

Earlier this year we discussed the rapid expansion of connected technologies and how this might affect SEP licensing in the automotive sector.

The recent case of Servier v Apotex generated what the Judge referred to as "novel circumstances" which resulted in a speedy consideration by the Court of Appeal of the court’s refusal to maintain an interim injunction against Apotex whilst Servier appealed the order of the High Court to revoke its patent.

The legal tests for novelty, inventive step and, less commonly, industrial application form the basis of the majority of patent litigation before the UK courts.

The UK equivalent of the EC Register is now a mere list of granted orphan MAs, together with a list of expired orphan registrations.

It seems likely that the ECJ Judgment in O2 v H3G has, for practical purposes, foreclosed brand owners' ability to sue for trade mark infringement when their trade marks are used unfairly in comparative adverts.