MLex: A fire alarm manufacturer has accused a rival electronics maker of infringing its patent for fire and carbon monoxide alarm systems, claiming its competitor's product copies protected features for managing interconnected alarms via a remote control.

MLex: An assessment of Meta Platforms’ new consent-or-pay model should be finalised within weeks, the head of the Irish data protection watchdog said today. Helen Dixon, the outgoing Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), told MLex in an interview today that Meta submitted its response to the Irish and other watchdogs’ views last night, and that she hopes to get her agency's view finalised this month, or by the later date of 19 February 2024, when she leaves her post.

Law360, London: With the publication of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act, the world's first comprehensive AI law, and the acceleration of the adoption of artificial intelligence, Irish companies must recognise the impact of AI across various business streams and prepare for the act.

Law360: The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) opened a consultation on 7 March 2024 on plans to modernise the Consumer Protection Code and clarify the obligations financial companies face for managing risks such as climate change.

Law360: Ireland's tax office wrongfully denied a company €;27.8m in tax deductions it had claimed for royalty withholding tax imposed on its income by foreign jurisdictions, the country's Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) said in a determination released on 12 March 2024.

Law360, London: HMRC cannot retain over £18 million in a withholding tax claimed by an Irish company on debt interest from collapsed bank Lehman Brothers, a London court ruled 20 April 2026.

Law360: While Ireland's corporate tax receipts increased an average of 23% a year since 2014 before stabilising in 2023, the country should be wary of over relying on what could be a volatile revenue source, the Parliamentary Budget Office said.

Law360, London: Ireland's High Court has blocked a Russian state-owned aircraft leasing company from enforcing awards issued in arbitration in Russia challenging the liquidation of the company's Irish aviation and maritime leasing subsidiary GTLK Europe DAC.

Law360: The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) lost an application to have a now-liquidated Australian investment company repay a AU$29m tax debt after an Irish court determined the payment should instead go to a lender.

Law360, London: Three Irish subsidiaries cannot benefit from the US-Ireland tax treaty's provision of equally favorable treatment between US and Irish residents because their ultimate parent entity, a Delaware financial firm, is disregarded for US tax purposes, Ireland's Court of Appeal said in a judgment.

Law360: TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, was found by an Irish court to have breached EU data protection rules, though the platform can continue transferring European user data to China after the court told Ireland's privacy regulator to reconsider measures relating to the transfers. In a ruling Thursday, the court rejected TikTok's argument that the Irish Data Protection Commission had misapplied EU rules governing international data transfers.

MLex: The Irish data protection authority is at the EU’s first-tier court today seeking the annulment of the European Data Protection Board's binding decisions against three of the Meta Platform's businesses—Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. For today’s hearing, the General Court issued a report outlining the background of the legal dispute.