18 June 2010 | Paul Gershlick
EDS and Sky have finally agreed to settle a costly and long-running dispute over an IT contract. In January, the High Court agreed with Sky’s claim that EDS had mis-sold a customer relationship system....
Tags on this discussion: breach of contract contract contract law contracts Fraud fraudulent misrepresentation IT IT contract misrepresentation supply contract UCTA unfair contract terms act
25 May 2010 | Paul Gershlick
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat Government is looking into the possibility of scrapping the controversial IR35 tax law. The law was brought in by the Labour Government in 2000 to force contractors to...
Tags on this discussion: contract contract law contractor contracts HMRC IR35 IT tax
20 May 2010 | Paul Gershlick
Nine suppliers of Dynamic Random Access Memory chips to PC and server original equipment manufacturers have been fined a total of €331m for breaching European Union competition law. Those fines were...
Tags on this discussion: anti-competition anti-trust Article 101 Article 81 cartel collusion competition law DRAM EC Treaty EU European Commission European Union fine illegal TFEU Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union unlawful
17 May 2010 | Mark Weston
Adobe has published an open letter claiming that Apple is threatening to undermine the next chapter of the web. Serious stuff. Adobe has also published adverts saying ‘We heart Apple’, but it is clear...
Tags on this discussion: hardware Internet IT
6 May 2010 | Mark Weston
A draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has finally been published. ACTA has been negotiated and discussed in secret between leading Governments for over two years (including North America,...
Tags on this discussion: Acta anti-counterfeiting trade agreement copyright copyright infringement Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet Internet connection Internet service provider IP ISP
29 April 2010 | Mark Weston
Asda has just launched a new offensive in the supermarket price war with a potentially knock-out salvo. Teaming up with our client, independent supermarket price-checker mySupermarket (see www.mysupermarket.co.uk),...
Tags on this discussion: Asda Morrisons mysupermarket Ocado price match refund Sainsburys supermarket Tesco
24 March 2010 | Paul Gershlick
BMS had entered into two agreements with a licensee of its software – one for the licence and the other was a support and maintenance agreement. The licence agreement was for 10 years but subject to...
Tags on this discussion: IT agreement licence novation perpetual Software support and maintenance termination variation
16 March 2010 | Mark Weston
Opera has revealed that the number of downloads for its browser software has increased threefold since Microsoft has included access to their products for people who had previously only had Microsoft’s...
Tags on this discussion: abuse of dominant position competition law European Commission European Community market abuse
12 March 2010 | Mark Weston
Microsoft has lost its appeal in the US against a court ruling which decided that its use of XML (or Extensible Markup Language) in its Office software infringed i4i’s patent rights. The ruling had required...
Tags on this discussion: Intellectual property intellectual property rights Patents
