McDermott Will & Emery | United Kingdom | 31 May 2011
In Yell Ltd v Louis Giboin [2011] EWPCC 9 the Patents County Court found that use of the word mark TRANSPORT YELLOW PAGES and the “walking fingers” logo on a non-UK website infringed Yell Ltd’s well-known registered trade marks in the United Kingdom.
McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 31 Jan 2011
After considering and rejecting contrary holdings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a party can be held liable for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) prohibition on anticircumvention technology even when the party did not engage in or facilitate copyright infringement.
McDermott Will & Emery | Ireland | 28 Sep 2010
In a dispute concerning so-called "screen scraping" between Ryanair and a German price comparison site - Ryanair Ltd v Billigfluege.de GmbH [2010] IEHC 47 - the Irish High Court was satisfied that the terms of use of a website formed an agreement between the operator and user of a website for the purposes of Article 23 of the Brussels Regulation.
McDermott Will & Emery | European Union | 31 Mar 2010
The European Commission has released an evaluation report on the implementation of the Safer Social Networking Principles for the European Union.
McDermott Will & Emery | European Union, United Kingdom | 27 Mar 2009
On 10 February 2009, 17 social networking sites signed an agreement on a set of Safer Social Networking Principles for the European Union.