Brexit: As of exit day (11pm on 31 January 2020) the UK is no longer an EU Member State. However, in accordance with the Withdrawal Agreement, the UK...
This Practice Note sets out guidance upon the meaning, use and importance of commonly used terms in exclusion and limitation of liability clauses in...
This Practice Note describes and explains the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) process and covers:•Application of the UDRP•Purpose...
Although its popularity has declined in recent years in favour of permissive licences such as MIT, a significant amount of software remains licensed...
This Practice Note should be read in conjunction with Practice Notes: Privacy law—misuse of private information and Privacy law—remedies.Coronavirus...
This Practice Note covers the considerations to be taken into account before drafting a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaint...
Brexit: As of exit day (11pm on 31 January 2020) the UK is no longer an EU Member State. However, in accordance with the Withdrawal Agreement, the UK...
Every case in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) is different, including subject matter, complexity, and value. For that reason, it is...
1. Following Brexit, will the UK need specific legislation for UK national database rights if the EU right no longer applies?Rights in databases exist...
Current position:Copyright law in the UK has been harmonised substantially through various EU directives, but is less harmonised than other areas of...
What IP rights are there?Most businesses will be familiar with the main IP rights of trade marks, patents, design rights and copyright. However, many...
DataData can be defined as ‘facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis’. There is no basic property right in a piece of data,...
How may a customer list or a database be transferred?There are no general property rights in data. There is an exception, however, where the data is...
What is scraping?Web scraping is a process by which website data is extracted (ie copied) using a web scraping program. Websites are typically coded...
Protection of investmentA database right in a database is infringed if an alleged infringer extracts or re-utilises all or a substantial part of its...
For the purpose of answering this Q&A, we have assumed:•the question refers to a database (or part of a database) that may include personal data for...
See News Analysis: LinkedIn’s efforts to stop the bots and in particular:What steps can a website take technically and legally, in the UK, to prevent...