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Intellectual property & data protection 2013: legal developments you need to know about

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 14 2013

Since 1 January 2013 data processors have been able to implement BCRs to facilitate the movement of personal data outside the EU. The Article 29

EMEA legal insights bulletin

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Africa, European Union, Middle East
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  • February 15 2013

The EMEA Legal Insights Bulletin is a quarterly journal that summarises and explains case laws and changes in regulations at both regional and local

Enlarged Board of Appeal: the EPO's case law on computer-implemented inventions is consistent

  • Jones Day
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  • European Union
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  • May 24 2010

On May 12, 2010, the Enlarged Board of Appeal ("EBA") handed down an Opinion on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions following a referral by the President of the European Patent Office

Hunton & Williams prepares study for the European Commission on the interaction between data protection law and copyright enforcement

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 3 2010

On February 3, 2010, Christopher Kuner, a partner in Hunton & Williams' Brussels office and head of the firm's EU Privacy Practice, presented to the "Stakeholders' Dialogue on Illegal Uploading and Downloading," organized by DG Internal Market and Services of the European Commission

CFI backs Commission in Microsoft case

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • February 29 2008

The European Court of First Instance (CFI) recently upheld the decision of the European Commission, taken in 2004, to fine the Microsoft Corporation a total of EUR 497 million for abuse of its dominant position in the market for work group server operating systems and streaming media players

Export of products and technologies with both civil and military uses

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • April 30 2007

The European Commission has adopted proposals12 to amend EC Regulation 13342000, which governs controls on the export of dual-use products and technology that would include software and technology that can be used for both civil and military purposes

ECJ provides further guidance on infringement of the database right

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Bulgaria, European Union
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  • March 16 2009

The Court of Justice of the European Communities has delivered its judgment in Case C-54507, Apis-Hristovich EOOD v Lakorda AD, following a reference from the Sofia City Court in Bulgaria

Software patenting: EPO consultation

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • March 27 2009

In the January 2009 Official Journal of the European Patent Office (EPO), an official announcement concerning the four pivotal questions being referred by the President under case G308 was published

Software patents in Europe the next instalment

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • April 2 2009

The law concerning patents for software-related inventions in Europe has followed a tortuous development with divergent approaches being adopted both in the European Patent Office ("EPO") and in national patent offices and courts

Meaning of “extraction” in the Database Directive

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 16 2009

Databases are afforded legal protection under the Database Directive (969EU