POSTED BY ISABEL TEARE | 30 AUGUST 2021 The importance of maintaining secrecy before filing for a patent Innovators developing new technologies have plenty to think about, and maintaining secrecy is not always top of the list. However, a recent case (Claydon Yield-O-Meter v Mzuri) shows how important it is to take care over this to avoid losing patent protection altogether... Read more Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read Confidentiality Intellectual property
POSTED BY ISABEL TEARE | 8 JULY 2021 A brand new subsidy control system Simon Elsegood explains how this will change public sector investment to develop the economy, following the UK's departure from the EU... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
POSTED BY ISABEL TEARE | 27 JUNE 2021 The EU grants data protection adequacy decisions with two days to go The EU has adopted final versions of the two adequacy decisions that were issued in draft earlier this year. These permit personal data flows to the UK under the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
POSTED BY ISABEL TEARE | 24 MAY 2021 Bumps in the road for the UK's data privacy adequacy assessment The European Parliament has asked the EU Commission to take another look at the UK's data protection adequacy assessment... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
POSTED BY ISABEL TEARE | 22 APRIL 2021 EU's bid to control the future of AI This week the EU Commission published its legislative proposals for regulating artificial intelligence... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
POSTED BY STEPHEN HAMILTON | 26 MARCH 2021 Driving legal structure for autonomous vehicles Around the world, autonomous vehicles are being developed and tested, different business models and use cases analysed, and connection systems created... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY ISABEL TEARE | 3 MARCH 2021 Out of hours work by a software creator, and who owns the results Where an individual is hired to do creative or innovative work, the employer will normally expect to be the owner of their work product... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
POSTED BY ISABEL TEARE | 22 FEBRUARY 2021 Good news for EEA/UK data flows Currently, transfers of personal data from the EEA to the UK are protected on a transitional basis only until 30 June 2021 under last December's post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement. However, the situation after that is currently uncertain... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY ISABEL TEARE | 4 JANUARY 2021 EU-UK trade deal and data protection A post-Brexit trade deal was finally pinned down on Christmas Eve. This will provide some comfort to organisations around data flows... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
POSTED BY ISABEL TEARE | 17 DECEMBER 2020 Intellectual property and the end of the Brexit transition period The UK's departure from the EU reaches a new stage at the end of December 2020, with the transition period drawing to an end... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
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