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IP & IT Law Update
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Course Overview SeminarUpdate

This course examines a broad range of issues and recent developments in IP and IT law, with emphasis on the implications for IP/IT law practitioners. Areas include latest developments in:

  • Patents – entitlement, foreign documents and transactions, EPC 2000, software patentability
  • Confidential information - Murray and PennWell
  • Designs – infringement under the new regime
  • Trade marks – registration issues, comparative advertising, embedded marks, anti-competitive licensing
  • Copyright – commissioned software
  • Competition – abuse of dominance in software, mobile telecoms
  • Data protection - ISPs’ subscribers’ details… and of course HM Government
  • Freedom of information
  • Information Security – the threat from Facebook
  • Domain name disputes
  • Regulation of Investigatory Powers – access to encrypted information
  • News round-up – misrep to a computer?
  • The Google Adwords decision of the ECJ
  • The Lucasfilms copyright decision
  • The Digital Economy Act 2010
  • The BSkyB v EDS decision

Course Dates

20/09/2012
London   		09:30 - 12:45
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28/09/2012
Manchester   		14:00 - 17:15
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31/10/2012
Birmingham   		14:00 - 17:15
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