The vital importance of a business’s IP rights featured heavily in Mr. Justice Zacaroli’s most recent High Court judgment, where the question for the Court was whether the Claimants could enforce certain terms in a settlement agreement against the Defendant, or whether these were unenforceable penalty clauses.
The Australian Government passed its News Media Bargaining Code into law on 2 March 2021. The Code is the world’s first piece of legislation to compel market-dominating tech giants to pay news publishers in exchange for displaying their content.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is used in everything from voice assistants and automated vehicles to digital therapeutics and drug discovery. One area that AI promises to revolutionise is medical diagnosis, where it has the potential to act as a vital tool for assisting medical professionals.
In last weeks budget, the importance of SMEs to the long-term recovery of the UK economy was underlined by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak. Encouragingly, there were some positive and tangible developments in the budget, which will provide valuable support for many of these SMEs.
This guide explains the five key ingredients that will put your organisation in the strongest IP position to attract and secure funding, distilled from our IP experts who have supported others through the funding process and understand the investor perspective.
Handed down on the same day as the Supreme Court’s Uber ruling, IPCom v Vodafone may not have dominated the headlines, yet this case should not be overlooked as the first major Court of Appeal IP decision of 2021.