There were some interesting CJEU and ECHR decisions on intermediary liability and hyperlinking over the course of 2016.

The UPC and the European patent with unitary effect will introduce the most radical changes to patent litigation in Europe for forty years.

The German Federal Government is picking up pace with the development of hydrogen.

A recent decision by the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg dated 18 July 2023 (Ref.: 3 U 1092/23) deals with a formal warning of a

The Court ordered Samsung to provide information and to render an account of past sales in Germany.

On 17 December 2014, the Federal Constitutional Court held that the exemption of business assets from inheritance and gift tax is unconstitutional, as it is too broad-based...

Work can be performed under various types of contract, with self-employment and salaried employment based on an employment contract being the main forms.

In 2012, Vringo acquired a portfolio of approximately 500 patents from Nokia, including EP 1 186 119 B2. The Patent concerned a method for transmitting a sequence of symbols and was related to UMTS technology.

The applicants were judgment creditors of a Robert Williams. They obtained a charging order against Roberts's beneficial interest in 75% of the shares in a company in administration...

A owned two properties, one of which had been divided into two separately rateable properties for council tax purposes.

On 31 July 2012, a bankruptcy order was made in respect of Mr Dean Jonathan D'Eye on the basis of a statutory demand dated 11 July 2011.

Three Jersey companies were put into English administration on the basis that their COMI was within this jurisdiction.

Automatic stays on proceedings are imposed by Article 20 of the UNCITRAL Model Law (and mirrored in s.130(2) IA 1986).

The liquidation of a Gibraltar company, Lemma, had been recognised in the UK and consequently, pursuant to Article 20 of the UNCITRAL Model Law, an automatic stay on English proceedings had been imposed.

In 2001 Indah Kiat (the Company), part of the APP group of companies, defaulted under the terms of two series of notes with a combined value of $350m (the Notes), both guaranteed by the Company's parent.

A firm of solicitors borrowed money from the Respondent fund.

Husband and wife petitioned for divorce in 2008. In January 2009, a statutory demand was served on the husband and a bankruptcy petition was presented in March 2009.

There have been conflicting decisions on whether a person may be made the subject of any income payments order (IPO).

On 25 February the Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) published the agreed Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs for the new court.

News has emerged from the US that the FDA has accepted, for the first time, a New Drug Application for a 'digital medicine'.