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