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Treasury against the separation of vertically integrated financial firms?
Australia - July 30 2018 Treasury's submission to the Financial Services Royal Commission in Background Paper 24: submission on key policy issues outlines (among other…
A new chapter in Facebook: from self-regulation to 'inevitable' regulation?
USA - February 5 2018 In the process of downloading a personality test app called 'thisisyourdigitallife' in 2014 and 2015, Facebook users consented to provide the app with…
Canada's Supreme Court decision against Google has far reaching implications
Canada - July 24 2017 On 28 June 2017 Canada's Supreme Court upheld a decision ordering Google to remove links to websites unlawfully selling the intellectual property of…
Google trade mark survives generic challenge in the US
Australia, USA - June 20 2017 A United States appeal court has recently found in favour of Google, Inc in a case that sought to argue that the word Google should lose trade mark…
From body cameras to self-analysing toilets - Privacy considerations with new technologies in the workplace
Australia - May 21 2017 Many of our clients introduce new Technologies into their workforce with the aim of improving safety - recently we have seen employers, ranging from…
Back to basics - negotiating IP rights in technology development agreements
Australia - April 12 2017 Businesses frequently choose to engage third party providers to build technology to support business activities. The process of developing and…
Federal Court interprets 'personal information'. What's it all about people?
Australia - January 24 2017 Kick-starting the privacy debate in Australia in 2017, the Full Federal Court has handed down its judgment in Privacy Commissioner v Telstra…
US Software Patent Law Developments
USA - January 16 2017 Approximately two years ago, the US Supreme Court in the Alice decision considered the in principle patentability of software patents. Since then…
A new hope for shoppers
Australia - December 23 2016 Not so long ago, but in a country far, far away, Australia Post set up the 'ShopMate' service, which offers consumers a way to obtain products from…
First steps down the plank: new Australian copyright provisions successfully used to block pirate sites
Australia - December 16 2016 On 15 December 2016, Foxtel and a number of movie studios secured the first site blocking orders in Australia...
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