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Competition Law
OFT looks to ban directors if they breach competition law…...
ECJ rules that Austrian price-fixing law constitutes an unjustifiable restriction on the free movement of goods …...
European Commission fines Intel a record-breaking €1.06billion for anti-competitive practices…...
Contracts
Court decides what constitutes ‘reasonable notice’ in a distribution arrangement - Jackson Distribution v Tum Yeto, High Court…...
Failure to make exclusion clause wording work under English law rather than US law proves costly – KG Bominflot v Petroplus, High Court…...
Court of Appeal upholds contractual rate of interest of 15% for late payment – Taiwan Scot v The Masters Golf Company, Court of Appeal…...
Copyright and Database Rights
France eventually passes ‘three strikes’ net piracy law…...
European Commission outlines plans to have single copyright licensing law across the EU…...
Computer Programs Directive updated…...
Cybercrime and Security
50% increase in number of ‘zombie’ computers detected…...
eBay fraudster to pay over £100,000 in compensation or face an extra 12 months behind bars…...
Data Protection / Privacy / Confidentiality
Data Protection Directive will not suffice in the long term says ICO report…...
High Court refuses to allow Data Protection Act to be used where other legal claims fail – Quinton v Peirce, High Court…...
Yet another serious data loss – this time it’s over 100,000 people’s pensions records…...
Information Commissioner reads the riot act to NHS over ‘inexcusable’ data losses…...
Recommendations on RFID technology published by European Commission…...
Mere taking of police photographs infringed privacy rights in light of surrounding circumstances – Wood v Commission of Police for the Metropolis, Court of Appeal…...
Court refuses to stop intrusive press reporting in paternity case already widely available on the Internet - East Sussex County Council, Maisie Stedman, Chantelle Stedman and Alfie Patten, High Court ...
Net closes around mosquito product consultant’s use of information in breach of confidence – Vestergaard Frandsen v Bestnet Europe, High Court…...
Organisations should guard against disclosing employee and customer information to ‘blaggers’ says ICO…...
Domain Names
WIPO allows top English football clubs to bring group action in domain name dispute…...
Gambling
Controversial house competition proceeds, while Gambling Commission remains tight-lipped on house draws generally…...
IT and Internet Use
Three-year-old ‘wins’ £7,600 digger in online auction as parents slept…...
Web sites retaining photos after users had ‘deleted’ them…...
A quarter still not shopping online because of security concerns…...
Seven million UK Internet users engage in illegal file-sharing…...
Jurisdiction
Draft Regulations implementing European Services Directive published…...
Misleading Advertising
CAP and BCAP consult on reforms to advertising codes of practice…...
ASA says data aggregation sites must update their records every day and show sustained trend if they want to make statements about other rival sites…...
Patents
IP Office introduces accelerated process for ‘green’ patent applications…...
Software patent for remote programming of mobile phones approved by the UK IP Office…...
Trade Marks and Passing Off
eBay not liable for trade mark infringement of its users, but use in sponsored links needs a further ruling – L’Oréal v eBay, High Court…...
Not all in the garden is rosy, as M&S vs Interflora spat leads to further reference to European Court of Justice over sponsored keywords – Interflora v Marks & Spencer, High Court…...
Changes to Google’s AdWords policy may lead to further trade mark disputes…...
Nasdaq name not registrable because it would take unfair advantage of the more famous use of the brand – Antartica v OHIM, European Court of Justice…...