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The European Commission is investigating allegations that Google has acted anti-competitively over the way it has been ranking search results. Three businesses have complained to the Commission that their...
Intellectual Property: McDonald’s eats IP up
In 2008, a teenager from Chicago (Lauren McClusky) applied to register the name McFest at the US Patent & Trademark Office. She cited the use of “Mc” as linked to the Mc in her own surname. For the...
Safeway’s legal action against ex-directors and employees stands real prospects of success, rules High Court – Safeway v Twigger, High Court
The High Court has given Safeway the go-ahead to continue its legal action against its ex-directors and employees for alleged breaches of competition law. The Office of Fair Trading believes that some...
European Commission to publicly give companies clean bill of health if investigations don’t turn up much incriminating evidence
The European Commission is planning to publicly give its reasons for closing proceedings or rejecting complaints if it does not find sufficient incriminating evidence to take investigations or prosecutions...
Sun comes from the East and West, so M-Tech loses parallel import case – Sun v M-Tech, High Court
M-Tech was a parallel importer of Sun Microsystems’ computer hardware products, meaning it bought products with Sun’s registered trade marks on in one country and re-sold them in the UK at a profit....
Microsoft settles 10 year competition fight with European Commission
Microsoft and the European commission have ended 10 years of fighting with an agreement over Microsoft’s alleged bundling of its Internet Explorer browser software with its Windows operating system....
Kraft/Cadbury deal prompts calls for reform of takeover laws
Italian prison sentences for Google executives for user-generated material sends shockwaves across the Internet
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Computer games designer’s failure to disclose his previous ideas meant employing company owned them – Burrows v Smith, High Court
Computer games designer’s failure to disclose his previous ideas meant employing company owned them – Burrows v Smith, High Court
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