The right to be forgotten – who can decide?
At the start of 2012 the European Commission proposed a new framework for the regulation of the protection of personal data within the European Union. These proposals have been much commented upon at both a national and European level. The current Irish Presidency of the EU is making great efforts to get agreement so that this new Regulation can be finalised before the Europea…
A smattering of recent relevant patent law developments
This webinar, which was run on 30 April, provides an overview of some recent patent cases and changes to the relevant patent law regimes that are of particular interest to the life sciences sector. Topics covered include the unitary patent, the unified patents court agreement, Neurim Pharmaceuticals v Comptroller-General of Patents, Actavis v Eli Lilly, Novartis v Generics, Br…
The impact of After the Event Insurance on Security for Costs applications
In the recent case of Geophysical Service Centre Company Ltd v Dowell Schlumberger (Middle East) Inc. ([2013] EWHC147 (TCC)) the defendant applied for security for costs. The defendant said they had sufficient evidence that the claimant would not be able to pay an adverse costs order. For a security for costs application to be successful in England, the conditions set out in Ci…
World IP Day - Trade Marks
Today, World IP Day, we are looking at registered trade mark protection and some recent developments in the law of trade marks in Europe and the UK and future developments. Trade marks are signs which are used by traders to differentiate their goods and services from those of other traders and they can include business names, product names and slogans. A company’s trade marks c…
Is the EU ready for the European Unitary Patent?
With World IP day fast approaching, we now turn our focus to patents. A patent protects new inventions and covers how things work, how they do it, what they do, how they are made and what they are made of. A patent is a negative right in that if granted, it allows the owner to prevent other people from using, making, selling or importing the invention it covers without permis…
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