Over recent years there has been a raft of developments at the intersection of competition law and data protection. Both the UK and EU have introduced legislation to regulate...

The European Commission has imposed fines totalling 7.8 million euros on Valve, the owner of a global PC gaming platform ‘Steam', and five publishers:

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In this follow-up episode of our podcast series on patent settlement agreements and competition law, Sophie Lawrance and Helena Connors cover the key takeaways...

Sophie Lawrance, Katie Cambrook and Helena Connors lead this penultimate episode in our podcast series on the competition law issues arising in relation to patent settlement agreements.

The UK Bioindustry Association (BIA) has today released its annual figures for investment activity in the UK biotech sector, revealing that 2020 saw a record investment of £2.8bn across the sector...

International businesses expanding into the UK market face important decisions about how to structure employee incentive programs. This episode examines the strategic considerations and practical frameworks for designing compensation arrangements that effectively attract and retain talent in the UK. Tax partner Julia Cockroft provides insights into the key factors businesses should evaluate when establishing their UK workforce incentive structures.

The European Commission has issued a new flowchart to clarify when software will qualify as a medical device.

Following on from the success of our previous Bristows Life Sciences Summit on gene editing, we hosted a thought-provoking discussion on the moral, ethical, commercial and regulatory challenges posed by artificial intelligence in healthcare.

In one of 2020's first judgments from the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, and one which is likely to be talked about for most of the year, His Honour Judge Hacon has found that a piece of fabric cannot be protected by copyright ...

The European Commission recently published figures for 2006 relating to seizures by national customs authorities of goods infringing intellectual property rights on their entry into the EU. These reveal a considerable increase in the number of counterfeit and pirated articles being seized generally, customs seizing more than 250 million articles in 2006 compared with 75 million in 2005; but in particular highlight a rapid growth in the trade of counterfeit medicines.

Recently Foss Patents organised a chat amongst experts on the component-level licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs)

On 26 August 2020, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) handed down its judgment on the combined appeals in the Unwired Planet v Huawei and Conversant v Huawei & ZTE cases

In this episode of Legitimately Interesting, Hannah Crowther and Jamie Drucker discuss the UK's brand new Online Safety Act.

Faye Harrison and Rosalie Hayes talk about deepfakes and facial recognition technology and discuss how they can hurt both privacy rights and even our trust into the media, law enforcement, and politics.

Listen to learn more on the HIPAA, CCPA, the Safe Data Act and the (exciting!) prospect of a US national law.

Fiona Campbell explores the test and trace apps and how they work alongside other tracing QR code systems.

An amicus curiae brief recently filed by the US Department of Justice ("DoJ") has provided insight into the evolving US position on this grey area of antitrust law.

"Strategic patenting should be subject to scrutiny under the rules of competition law": this is the controversial thesis of the author of this month's CLIP, Olga Gurgula.

On 23 May 2024, Mrs Justice Bacon gave judgment in an application for an interim injunction in Lenovo v Ericsson ([2024] EWHC 1267 (Ch)) in the latest in a long line of cases that grapple...