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Court of Appeals affirms FCC’s Pole Attachment decision

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 27 2013

Yesterday, a three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld the key prongs of the FCC's

DC Circuit hears utilities’ pole attachment appeal

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 23 2013

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit earlier today heard oral argument in American Electric Power Service Corp. v

Roamin' holiday? Court ok's FCC's data roaming rules;

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 6 2012

On Dec. 4, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a 30-page order upholding the FCC’s 2011 decision to require data roaming for wireless Internet providers

Unilateral option clauses: unenforceable in Russia

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Russia
  • -
  • September 5 2012

On 1 September 2012, the Presidium of the Supreme Commercial Court of Russia (the "SCC") issued the full reasoning of its decision dated 19 June 2012 in the case of Russian Telephone Company ("RTC") v Sony Ericsson Communication Rus ("Sony Ericsson"), holding that an arbitration clause that gave one of the parties the additional, unilateral option of bringing a claim at courts of competent jurisdiction was invalid as a matter of Russian law

Internet service providers not obliged to install general filtering systems to prevent illegal downloading

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • January 27 2012

In what was both a highly anticipated and expected ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that under EU law a national court cannot impose an injunction requiring an internet service provider (ISP) to install, at its own cost, a wide ranging filtering system in order to tackle illegal downloading using peer to peer (P2P) networks

Italian telecoms and media regulator proposes to adminster notice-and-takedown procedures and update on Italian case law

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • November 28 2011

On 6 July 2011 the Italian Communication Regulatory Authority, AGCOM, approved a draft of a new regulation (Res. no. 39811, the "Regulation") regarding the protection of copyright within electronic networks

Enforcing an essential patent at an interim proceedings level

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • October 25 2011

Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson (Ericsson), a holding of Ericsson group, claimed infringement of various patents covering the standardized technologies GSM and EDGE by ZTE Italy S.r.l. (ZTE), a subsidiary of ZTE Corp

German court confirms 3G license revocation with no fee refund

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • August 28 2011

The German Federal Administrative Court has issued a final judgment, upholding lower court rulings that the German telecoms regulator was justified in revoking one of the early 3G licenses for failure to meet build-out requirements, without refunding the 8.4 billion license fee

Belgian spectrum renewal fees challenged

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Belgium
  • -
  • July 26 2011

All three Belgian mobile operators in August last year challenged the national law that provides for new lump sum mobile spectrum fees, including for licenses that already had been renewed

Copyright Developments in Europe - Sabam, TalkTalk cases shed light on internet filtering

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Belgium, France, United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 19 2011

What should be the role of internet intermediaries in fighting illegal content?