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UK Intellectual Property Office issues new guidance on software patents

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 14 2009

The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) issued new guidance (the Guidance) on how patent examiners will assess the patentability of software implemented inventions

Developing competition in the English and Welsh water markets the Cave Review's interim report

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 8 2009

What competition already exists in the English and Welsh (E&W) water industries?

Scottish planning legislation round-up

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 14 2009

The implementation of the Planning Etc (Scotland) Act 2006 continues apace with December bringing a raft of further changes to the Scottish Planning framework

The Planning Act 2008: an overview

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 14 2009

The Planning Act 2008 received Royal Assent on 26 November 2008

Ownership proposed for ultra long lease holders

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 6 2007

The latest offering from the Scottish Law Commission is their Report on Conversion of Long Leases into ownership, which follows on from a draft Discussion Paper on the subject, published in 2001

Judicial review of prosecution decisions and the right to life

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 5 2007

The recent high-profile case of R (on the application of da Silva) v Director of Public Prosecutions and the Independent Police Complaints Commission concerned a challenge to the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service ('the CPS') not to prosecute any individual police officer in the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes

What is the private members ballot?

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 5 2007

Every year a select number of backbench MPs are able to table legislation on a topic of their choice which is called a Private Members Bill

Pirate Bay Four forced to walk the plank

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • Sweden, United Kingdom
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  • May 6 2009

A Swedish court has found the co-founders of the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, guilty of criminal copyright infringement

Here are some New Year resolutions that you really ought to keep

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 15 2009

You may be weakening in your resolve to visit the gym every morning, walk past the bun shop and abstain from alcohol this month, but here are four New Year resolutions that as an HR professional you really ought to keep

Information Commissioner's Office to get expanded powers

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 14 2009

2008 was another year of embarrassment for the public sector in terms of data losses and it is therefore no surprise that the Ministry of Justice has put forward a series of proposals to give the Information Commissioner an increased range of powers, some of which are mentioned in this article