October 25, 2010
A trade mark can be refused where it is descriptive of the goods and services it covers. This could be where the mark ādesignates the kind, quality, quantity, intended purpose, value or geographical originā of the goods or service o...
October 29, 2010
Itās easy to forget about things as you focus on the look and feel of the website and a good privacy policy could quite easily be one of them. But a privacy policy is essential for your website, as data protection and other laws giv...
November 1, 2010
In September, the Swiss Federal Court ruled that an anti-piracy company in Switzerland, Logistep,Ā must cease collecting the IP addressesĀ of users sharing files on peer-to-peer networks.
IP addresses are used to route communications...
November 2, 2010
Yesterday in our November newsletter we mentioned the Legal Services Act (sign up to receive future editions using the form on the right), and how from October 2011 the Act will allow non-law businesses to own a stake in law firms.Ā ...
One aspect of online business that is particularly difficult to grapple with is copyright, be it, use of content from other sites, or copyright relating to photographs and images or other issues.Ā The misinformation that surroun...
November 8, 2010
Copyright is a hot topic at the moment, especially following the PMās announcement thatĀ UK copyright law is to be reviewedĀ with a view to potentially incorporating fair use provisions along similar lines to those in place in the US....
December 7, 2010
The candid belief that Google is just a messenger bringing good and bad content to surfers and concerned only with one criteria, ārelevanceā, is dissipating.It was once the copyright ownerās duty, not Googleās, to chase the pirates....
December 15, 2010
While Iāve previously written about the legal requirements regardingĀ Data Protection and Email Marketing, this is about email marketing following contacts you meet physically when networking.
You will exchange cards with many people...
November 15, 2010
Now, with the availability of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, employers can learn a lot more about potential employees than was previously possible. Whilst before, a resume and references were the critical ways...
November 23, 2010
A more technical post this afternoon, but extremely noteworthy.
The Internet has become a significant part of everyday life, and continues to grow at a blistering pace.Ā As a result of this growth, critical changes to the way Inte...
December 3, 2010
Those with their fingers on the pulse of the legal services industry are predicting significant changes in the marketplace.Ā Whether this shift is down to the recession, technological developments, regulatory changes, or all of thes...
December 13, 2010
Hargreaves Review
In a message to theĀ Hargreaves Review teamĀ last week Jeremy Phillips suggested a few practitioners, including myself, whose perspective may be of interest to Tom Loosemore.Ā Ā Although I had been aware a review of U...
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