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ICO favours extending Freedom of Information to public sector contractors

Posted on April 28, 2008
The Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed its support for extending the Freedom of Information (FOI) regime to contractors and outsource service providers to the public sector. The ICO, the enforcer of the FOI and and Data Protection Act in the...

European DP Supervisor adopts Opinion on ePrivacy Directive changes

Posted on April 24, 2008
Not a subject we can cover on IMPACT today, but the Society of Computers & Law website has a report on this: EDPS and the ePrivacy Directive Review.

Blawg Review enters the Virtual World

Posted on April 21, 2008
Benjamin Duranske of Virtually Blind hosts this week's Blawg Review. Whether or not you keep up with Blawg Review, the resulting post is an interesting and entertaining insight into the legal issues associated with virtual worlds. According to Duranske, 3D...

'Youngest inventor' makes a clean sweep

Posted on April 17, 2008
Just spotted this from the BBC: 'Youngest inventor' patents broom A five-year-old boy is thought to be the UK's youngest person to patent an idea after inventing a labour-saving broom to help his father sweep leaves. Sam Houghton, of Buxton,...

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Two stripes and you're out

Posted on April 16, 2008
Trade mark lawyers will be interested in a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the case of Adidas v Marca Moda, C&A Nederland, H&M & others. The ruling arises from a reference to the ECJ from...

INTA, Berlin May 17 - 21 2008

Posted on April 16, 2008
Ann Critchell-Ward and Alex Newson, of Freeth Cartwright LLP's IP & IT law team, will be attending this year's INTA Annual Meeting. INTA is the International Trade Mark Association. The event, which in 2008 is being held in Berlin from...

Free Software Foundation's First European Licensing & Legal Workshop

Posted on April 14, 2008
On Friday I had the privilege of attending the first ever European Licensing & Legal Workshop of Free Software Foundation Europe. Thanks and congratulations to the FSFE Freedom Task Force (FTF) for organising such a successful event. The Workshop, which...

Introducing... the IP Finance Blog

Posted on April 10, 2008
Looking across the blog rolls on some the other law blogs recently, I found the IP Finance Blog. This: "looks at financial issues for intellectual property rights: securitisation and collateral, IP valuation for acquisition and balance sheet purposes, tax and...

NODUS - 7 May 2008

Posted on April 09, 2008
Details have been released of the next meeting of NODUS, the organisation for IP & IT legal professionals in the East Midlands. The meeting is being hosted by Browne Jacobson at their Nottingham office. Nick McDonald of Browne Jacobson has...

6 months is enough, Article 29 Working Group tells search engines

Posted on April 08, 2008
The Article 29 Working Group of EC data protection commissioners has given an Opinion on the handling of personal data by search engines. The headline grabber so far has been the statement that search engines should retain personal data about...

Banking Code: user liability for losses from online banking

Posted on April 04, 2008
Out-law reports on the new Banking Code, which will see customers regarded as liable for losses from their bank (e.g. from hackers gaining access to their account) if they do not act with reasonable care. One of the key examples...

Free software licensing & Software as a Service

Posted on April 04, 2008
Brendan Scott, a leading open source lawyer, has produced a useful analysis of the legal issues to do with free software licensing as applied to "Software as a Service" (SAAS). SAAS is the term often used for web-based applications (e.g....

IMPACT is back!

Posted on April 04, 2008
As you will know if you are looking at the blog, reading your RSS or receiving the IMPACT email, we're back online. A domain name issue of fiendish technical complexity (or so our IT people tell us) caused a server...

Banking Code: user liability for losses from online banking

Free software licensing & Software as a Service

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3 law firms, 6 weeks: data protection crackdown continues

Posted on April 01, 2008
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) may be unhappy with its existing powers, but it is not afraid to use them. Yesterday, the ICO announced the successful prosecution of a small London solicitors firm for failing to notify the ICO of...

3 law firms, 6 weeks: data protection crackdown continues

Keyword advertising & trade mark infringement

Posted on March 31, 2008
This is a quick heads-up on two recent trade mark infringement judgments, both to do with the use of a third party's trade mark in a keyword advert. Keyword adverts are the sponsored links that sit alongside ordinary search results...

Keyword advertising & trade mark infringement

Laptop theft leads ICO to declare Skipton in breach of the DPA

Posted on March 26, 2008
Looking at the latest ICO press releases, we see that last month the ICO found Skipton Financial Services to be in breach of the Data Protection Act. This arose out of the theft from a Skipton contractor of a laptop...

UK software patent law uncertainty continues

Posted on March 25, 2008
The uncertainty over whether computer software is patentable in the UK continues, following a decision by the High Court last week which the UK Intellectual Property Office has announced it will appeal. The ruling relates to an application by Symbian...

New ICO survey reveals level of public concern over data protection

Posted on March 25, 2008
The Information Commissioner's Office has released a survey of 1,000 people across the UK, which it claims shows that the public has 'woken up' to privacy. Whilst the survey itself is a huge set of figures (28 pages of them,...

DRM gets another lease of life

Posted on March 19, 2008
Reports in the Financial Times today suggest that Apple, massively influential in the music industry through its iTunes store, is about to shake things up again with a scheme allowing unlimited downloads from the store in return for a monthly...

St Patricks Day legal action: this time it's an Irish ISP being sued

Posted on March 17, 2008
In what is probably not intended by the record industry to be a St Patricks Day gift, Out-law.com reports that Eircom (an ISP) is being sued by 4 record companies for failing to stop its services being used to send...

Music, fans & copyright online: Open Rights Group event

Posted on March 17, 2008
Linking in nicely to our previous post, the Open Rights Group is holding an event called "Music, fans & copyright online" on Wednesday, 2pm at the London School of Economics. More details at the Open Rights Group Blog. In my...

Worldwide piracy crackdown threatens ISPs

Posted on March 17, 2008
As you may have read, the UK government has said that it is becoming increasingly frustrated by the volume of illegal file swapping taking place online, and has threatened new legislation by April 2009 if the situation doesn't rapidly improve....

Court considers "all reasonable endeavours"

Posted on March 14, 2008
Those of you that negotiate contracts may find useful a recent Chancery Division decision, Hiscox v Pinnacle. One of the points considered in the case was the meaning of the certain standard of performance wording that often features in contracts:...

Testing Testing 1 2 3

Posted on March 14, 2008
Those of you that read IMPACT via the website rather than email or RSS may have noticed that the blog has a new design. At the moment, like the BBC iPlayer site, the new design is still in the beta...

German search engine keywords legal update

Posted on March 12, 2008
Those with an active online presence in Germany should check out Class 46's report on a final ruling by the German Courts on a search engine keywords case. In summary the German Courts have held that using a competitor company's...

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