Following reports that some consumers were experiencing difficulties and problems with cloud storage services, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a review of compliance with consumer law in the sector.

The European Parliament passed a resolution on 24 November 2022 calling on the European Commission to immediately begin a co-ordinated exit from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT).

We have previously reported on the challenges by Mondolez/Cadbury to Nestlé's four-fingered Kit Kat shape trade mark...

BGW Beratungs-Gesellschaft Wirtschaft mbH applied to invalidate Mr Scholz's German trade mark registration of the word mark BGW Federal Association of Health Industry on the basis of its above earlier German trade mark left.

For the last 17 years, the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC has formed the core set of rules for the safety of plant and machinery in the European Economic Area.

On 30 November 2016 the Dutch District Court in The Hague has ruled in the case of printer cartridges, Hewlett-Packard v Benson Image et al.

‘Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a developer of wealth and taste...’ as Jagger almost said.

The new EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2) came into force on 13 January 2016. Implementation into Member State law must be completed by 13 January 2018 at which point the 2007 Directive will be repealed.

Under the Working Time Regulations 1998, a worker is entitled to an unpaid rest break of at least 20 minutes where a worker's daily working time is more than six hours.

This long running dispute concerned claims arising from an allision involving the vessel FRONT CONNOR and a jetty at an oil refinery in Syracuse, Italy, operated by Erg Petroli SpA. Erg’s claim against the Owners for the resulting loss and damage arose under a charterparty which provided for London arbitration.

Under section 51(3) of the Senior Courts Act 1981, the English High Court has the power to determine by whom, and to what extent, the costs of the litigation are to be paid.

The EU General Court has upheld a decision of the EUIPO Board of Appeal, which found a likelihood of confusion between a "Morgan & Morgan" figurative trade mark registered...

A number of articles in this edition of Brands Update look at the question of distinctiveness.

In a case before the General Court, the court had to decide whether two curved lines in the shape of a ‘C' above lacked distinctiveness on the basis of representing an outline of an oval-shaped pharmaceutical pill, and for being too simple.

The High Court has allowed an appeal against a decision of a UK IPO Hearing Officer dismissing an opposition to an application to register the trade mark The GapTravel Guide...

If a patent is found to be invalid, a patent holder's threat to bring infringement proceedings could be held to be unjustified.

The UK Government has announced that, following positive feedback to its recent consultation, the nation is set to accede to the Hague Agreement for Industrial Designs in its own right.

Technological advances over the four short years since the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games present broadcasters with new opportunities for reaching their audiences but new challenges too.

The UK's Finance Bill received Royal Assent on 15 September 2016, becoming the Finance Act 2016.

NISD (Network Information Security or Cybersecurity Directive) was published in the Official Journal in July 2016.