07 Nov, 2024 EU-driven game changer ahead for German SEP litigation? By Charlotte Kieslich Bolko Ehlgen With the much-contested EU Regulation on SEPs and FRAND licensing in the pipeline, the European Commission has demonstrated that it...
03 Oct, 2024 The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act: what you need to know about the risk of private litigation By Tom Cassels Harriet Ellis Sarina Williams James Hennah Rebecca Dickie Jason Shardlow-Wrest Alice Chung +4 more... Show less In May this year, the long-awaited Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC Act) became law, introducing the most significant...
04 Jan, 2024 A new year for the Tech Sector: Tech Legal Outlook 2024 and Fintech & Payments Legal Outlook 2024 By Clare Murray Jennifer Calver Elaine Choo Laura Onyeocha +1 more... Show less In case you missed it, we launched our annual legal outlook series last month. Our global cross-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional...
13 Jul, 2023 “We Have No Moat”; the impact of surging generative AI on evidence in litigation and investigations By James Phoenix A leaked memo, published in May and allegedly originating from a researcher within Google, starts with the line “We Have No Moat And...
15 May, 2023 Inflation impacting supply chain: Fruit salad, inequity aversion and how to deal with a supplier’s termination notice By Danny Greenland Figures recently released by the Office for National Statistics show that UK consumer price inflation remains stubbornly in the...
04 May, 2023 DMU Insight #2: When is fair fair? The DMU’s final offer mechanism for determining tech price disputes By Verity Egerton-Doyle Judy Zhao A key element of the SMS regime contained in the Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers (DMCC) Bill, introduced to the UK Parliament...
28 Apr, 2023 EU Commission proposes extensive framework for standard-essential patents By Pauline Debré Bolko Ehlgen Julia Schönbohm Pieter Van Den Broecke Mirjam Erb +2 more... Show less Yesterday, the EU Commission adopted its long-awaited proposal for a regulation on standard-essential patents (SEPs), which – according...
25 Apr, 2023 Cracks in the walled garden: Google Play to allow UK developers to use alternative billing systems By Nayantara Ravichandran Verity Egerton-Doyle Last week, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally accepted commitments offered by Google to allay concerns around...
21 Apr, 2023 Do androids dream of judicial review? Challenges to automated decision-making processes in the public sector By Tom Cassels Jonathan Jones Alexander Fawke Freddie Shanagher Tara Janus +2 more... Show less While the idea of significant decisions being made with no human involvement was once the preserve of science fiction, automated...
12 Jan, 2023 A new year and three new reports for the Tech Sector: Tech Legal Outlook 2023, Fintech Legal Outlook 2023 and Crypto & DeFi By Jennifer Calver Clare Murray As the tech sector faces up to big challenges in 2023, our global cross disciplinary tech and fintech teams have produced three new...
15 Dec, 2022 Singapore High Court grants injunction in respect of an NFT against an anonymous party By Clara Tung Millicent Sparrow 2022 has been somewhat of a rollercoaster year for the crypto - and particularly the NFT - markets. However amongst the market turmoil...
15 Jul, 2021 Cooperation in digital regulation in the UK? By Rebecca Dickie The CMA, Ofcom, ICO and the FCA have agreed to work more closely together in respect of digital regulation through the Digital Regulation...
17 May, 2021 Cyber threat – falling to the DarkSide By Linklaters No sector is immune If the cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline was a wakeup call, then someone is sleeping too soundly. Ransomware attacks...
28 Apr, 2021 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Consumer Terms & Conditions By Peter Church One of the themes in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the concept of power and bureaucracy. When Arthur Dent discovers his house...
08 Apr, 2021 A rare judgment on a tech dispute - insights from the Co-op v IBM dispute By Linklaters The recent decision in CIS v IBM is an interesting read for anyone involved in the negotiation or litigation of IT contracts. It’s not...
29 Mar, 2021 UK case deems Bitcoin to be "property" in a traditional take on the law By Michael Munk It might have been around for over a decade but Bitcoin is still in the news and - as with cryptoassets generally - continues to pose...