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During the British Airways cabin crew strike, Mr Patel had acted as a volunteer cabin crew member. Allegedly as a result of his actions, he was the subject of defamatory allegations posted on a forum on...
Barrister struck off by Bar Standards Board owned Newzbin
Newzbin2, an illegal file-sharing and download website that BT was ordered to block access to in October 2011, has been in the news regularly in the last year or so. Now it has been revealed that the barrister...
AstraZeneca to axe over 10% of its worldwide jobs as patent cliff effects take hold
AstraZeneca has announced that it is making over 7,000 of its 61,000 worldwide staff redundant as a cost-cutting measure, in light of its falling revenues and the patent cliff. The patent cliff is the...
Specsavers seeing better now after appeals against Asda upheld – Specsavers International Healthcare Limited v Asda Stores Limited, Court of Appeal
In 2010, the High Court was asked to consider whether a marketing campaign and rebranding by Asda in relation to its optician service infringed trade marks held by Specsavers. Many of Specsavers’ claims...
“32″ and “red” marks appeal rejected by Court of Appeal – WHG (International) Ltd v 32 Red Plc, Court of Appeal
In February 2011, the High Court ruled that two European Community Trade Marks for the “32RED” word and a figurative trade mark comprising “32” and “red” had been infringed by “32Vegas”...
Will European Stem Cell Ruling Stifle Research?
My commentary on patenting stem cell techniques was published by LexisNexis and is available to view here.
New data protection proposals announced for the EU
The European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has launched the European Commission’s proposals for the reform of the data protection regime in the EU, with the aim of increasing a person’s...
ICO fines Midlothian Council £140,000 for sending details about children and carers to wrong people
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Midlothian Council £140,000 for sending sensitive personal data about children and carers to the wrong people on five separate occasions in the first...
Equal parental rights – where are we now?
I have recently written an article on parental rights, which was published on the Family Law website. Please click here to read it.
The article looks at both the Government’s recent announcement that...
Purchase and leaseback schemes – are they binding on a lender?
This appeal concerned nine test cases involving purchase and leaseback schemes whereby owners of properties (“the Vendors”) had sold their homes to purchasers (“the Purchasers”), who had promised...