Pillsbury | USA | 20 Apr 2015
Manufacturers design modern aircraft with a prescribed lifespan, or 'design life' of 25 years. The lifespan includes a specified number of flight…
William Fry | Ireland | 10 Apr 2013
A High Court order requiring an online travel agent to disclose the identity of the third party which it engaged to "scrape" information from…
William Fry | Ireland | 10 Apr 2013
The Supreme Court has overturned an order made by the High Court requiring an online travel agent to disclose the identity of the third party which…
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.
LK Shields | Ireland | 22 Jun 2010
If you own a website and you want to prevent your content from being misappropriated by third parties, then you'll be cheering for Ryanair as Michael O'Leary takes on a German price comparison website.
Matheson LLP | Ireland | 15 Jun 2010
In an Irish High Court judgment delivered on 26 February 2010, Mr Justice Michael Hanna ruled that Ryanair's online "Terms of Use", and in particular, the exclusive jurisdiction clause contained therein (which provided that the courts of the Republic of Ireland would have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of any dispute) were binding, and constituted an "agreement" for the purposes of Article......
LK Shields | Ireland | 16 Mar 2010
Website owners must often contend with the activities of third party screen scrapers.
Matheson LLP | Ireland | 28 Oct 2009
The latest rulings in the Ryanair/Bravofly proceedings before the Irish courts have been handed down and they, like the others before them, do not deal with the substantive issues of the case but rather focus on the procedure.
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP | Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom | 11 Sep 2008
Ryanair has recently claimed victory in a Hamburg Regional Court dispute, preventing a third party website run by Vtours GmbH from "screen scraping" its website.
Gowling WLG | United Kingdom | 13 Aug 2008
Ryanair has announced that it intends to cancel all flight tickets which have not been purchased directly from its website or call centre.