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Paul Gershlick

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Paul advises on all areas of commercial law and other general legal advice in a commercial context involving day-to-day business issues. In particular, he drafts, negotiates and advises on all commercial contracts, particularly in the pharmaceuticals and life sciences, IT, online and retail sectors. This includes agreements involving intellectual property (IP) assignments and licences, software development, software licences, hosting, SaaS (software as a service), web design, managed services, disaster recovery, support & maintenance, agency, distribution, supply, manufacturing, merchandising, warehousing, outsourcing, purchase and franchise; B2B, B2C, B2G, and international agreements. Paul also advises on data protection, brand protection, advertising and know-how issues.

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Independent Pharmacy Federation calls for 100 MPs to back an early day motion on drugs shortage crisis

4 May 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The Independent Pharmacy Federation, which represents many independent pharmacists in the UK, has called for at least 100 MPs to back a Parliamentary early day motion tabled by Keith Vaz MP to address...

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GSK accuses NICE of failure to support new drugs

4 May 2012 | Paul Gershlick

GSK, the UK's largest pharmaceutical company, has accused the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) of failing to do enough to recognise the value of new medicines and encourage...

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ABPI launches new partnership team to work closer with providing greater access to innovative treatments to NHS patients

4 May 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has announced a new regional team to work closer with the NHS to bring innovative treatments quicker to NHS patients. The ABPI is delighted about...

Tags on this discussion: ABPI Assoication of the British Pharmaceutical Industry big pharma innovate innovation Innovation Health and Wealth innovative National Health Service NHS Partnership pharma pharma products pharmaceutical pharmaceutical business pharmaceutical company pharmaceutical industry pharmaceutical market pharmaceutical sector

Details of staff members who dealt with complaints could be released under freedom of information request as they were not within the sphere of privacy to be personal data

4 May 2012 | Paul Gershlick

Mr Edem had made a freedom of information request to the Financial Services Authority for information relating to a complaint he had made about Egg. He was concerned that the FSA had failed to regulate...

Tags on this discussion: biographical data data controller data protection data protection act Data Protection Act 1998 data protection laws Data Provider DPA FOIA freedom of information freedom of information act freedom of information request ICO information Information Commissioner Information Commissioner's Office Information Tribunal personal data privacy request for information

TripAdvisor latest to complain about Google’s alleged abuse of dominant position in placement of competing sites in search results

4 May 2012 | Paul Gershlick

TripAdvisor has become the latest business to complain that Google has allegedly abused its dominant position in the way it displays search results. TripAdvisor alleges that the search engine giant puts...

Tags on this discussion: abuse abuse of dominance abuse of dominant position anti-competition anti-competitive breach of competition law competition competition law dominance dominant position EU EU law EU laws European Commission European Union fine illegal On-line Online online content search search engine search engines search result unenforceable web web site web site content web sites Website website content websites

Web site operator may be liable for site to which it links – McGrath v Dawkins, High Court

4 May 2012 | Paul Gershlick

McGrath sued Professor Richard Dawkins and various others for allegedly defamatory material posted on a web site. This was an application by the defendants to strike out the claim. The most interesting...

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British Airways fined £58.5m for exchange of commercially sensitive information over fuel surcharges with Virgin Atlantic

3 May 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The Office of Fair Trading has fined British Airways £58.5m for exchanging commercially sensitive information with its competitor, Virgin Atlantic, between 2004 and 2006. The information exchange led...

Tags on this discussion: agreement agreements anti-competition anti-competitive breach of competition law co-operation commercial commercial law commercially sensitive information competition Competition Act competition law competitor fine illegal leniency Office of Fair Trading OFT unenforceable

Marathon data publication to be investigated by Information Commissioner’s Office

3 May 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The London Marathon organisers are being investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office after the names, email addresses and home addresses of all 38,000 participants in this year’s competition...

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At least 1 in 10 second hand hard drives still contain personal information and half contain some information

25 April 2012 | Paul Gershlick

11% of 200 hard drives bought second-hand from eBay and other locations in an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office contained personal data. Half of all of the drives contained some...

Tags on this discussion: breach of confidentiality commercial commercially sensitive information confidential information confidentiality data data breach data breaches data controller data destruction data erasure data loss data processor data protection data protection act Data Protection Act 1998 data protection laws Data Provider data security data theft databases DPA ICO information Information Commissioner Information Commissioner's Office Intellectual property intellectual property rights IP IPR personal data sensitive personal data trade secret

Regulators’ body advises that consent needed for use of image recognition technology

24 April 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The Article 29 Working Party has advised that social networking sites such as Facebook should get specific consent from users before suggesting to other users that photos those subsequent users are uploading...

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Paul Gershlick

Latest news and views from Paul Gershlick

Independent Pharmacy Federation calls for 100 MPs to back an early day motion on drugs shortage crisis

GSK accuses NICE of failure to support new drugs

ABPI launches new partnership team to work closer with providing greater access to innovative treatments to NHS patients

Details of staff members who dealt with complaints could be released under freedom of information request as they were not within the sphere of privacy to be personal data

TripAdvisor latest to complain about Google’s alleged abuse of dominant position in placement of competing sites in search results

Web site operator may be liable for site to which it links – McGrath v Dawkins, High Court

British Airways fined £58.5m for exchange of commercially sensitive information over fuel surcharges with Virgin Atlantic

Marathon data publication to be investigated by Information Commissioner’s Office

At least 1 in 10 second hand hard drives still contain personal information and half contain some information

Regulators’ body advises that consent needed for use of image recognition technology

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