European Parliament Approves Draft Orphan Works Directive
By Jacqueline Clover and Ezra Steinhardt On September 13, 2012, the European Parliament approved the text of a new draft Directive that sets out permitted uses of orphan works (the “Directive”)....
View ArticleEuropean Cloud Computing Strategy Raises Questions Over Future of Private...
By Ezra Steinhardt and Jacqueline Clover On September 27, 2012, the European Commission released its Communication strategy paper on cloud computing. The strategy, in development for over a year,...
View ArticleUpdate: Orphan Works Directive Receives Final Approval from European Council
By Jacqueline Clover and Ezra Steinhardt Yesterday, the European Council issued its final approval for the Orphan Works Directive. See our previous blog post about the Directive’s approval by the...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Endorses Amendments to Dual-Use Regulation; Export...
By Agnieszka Polcyn, Fredericka Argent, and Ezra Steinhardt On 23 October 2012, the European Parliament adopted a number of suggested amendments to the European Commission’s proposal to amend the...
View ArticleBlow to the Spanish and Italian Challenge to the Unitary EU Patent
Shortly before today’s vote in the European Parliament on the Unitary EU Patent , Advocate General Bot recommended that the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) dismiss the actions brought...
View ArticleA Unitary Patent for Europe is Finally Approved
After more than 40 years of discussions, the European Parliament today voted in favour of the “EU patent package,” hot on the heels of the European Council’s approval yesterday. The EU patent package...
View ArticleE-Books Pricing: The EU Antitrust Chapter Is About To Close
The EU E-books antitrust probe is quasi-closed: the EU Commission announced yesterday that it accepted and made legally binding the commitments offered by Apple and four publishers to settle the...
View ArticleEuropean Court of Justice Rules on What Constitutes Genuine Use of a Trade Mark
By Morag Peberdy and Jacqueline Clover Yesterday, judgment was delivered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in the ONEL case on what constitutes genuine use of a Community Trade...
View ArticleFuture Fifty: A UK Initiative to Help High-Growth Companies
By Matthew Edwards and Jacqueline Clover Last month, we blogged about the launch of the London Stock Exchange High Growth Segment. As part of another programme of measures to support UK and EU...
View ArticleEU’s Highest Court Considers the Situs of Damage in Online Copyright...
On 13 June 2013, Advocate General (“AG”) Niilo Jääskinen of the EU’s Court of Justice (CJEU) issued his non-binding Opinion in the Pinckney case, dealing with the question of courts’ competence to hear...
View ArticleItalian Court Finds that Wikimedia is Not Liable for Defamatory Comments
By Dan Cooper and Oliver Grazebrook On 20 June 2103, the Court of Rome in Italy ruled that the Wikimedia Foundation (the charitable organisation that operates Wikipedia) could not be liable for...
View ArticleFCO sends statement of objections to Booking.com
On 2 April 2015, the German Competition Authority (FCO) sent a statement of objections (SO) to Booking.com Deutschland GmbH in relation to its use of “best price” clauses in contracts with hotels in...
View ArticleDutch Competition Authority Updates Guidance on Distribution Agreements
On 20 April 2015 the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (“ACM”) published new guidance regarding its enforcement priorities in relation to distribution agreements, noting that its enforcement...
View ArticleAd Blocking Declared Legal: German Court Dismisses Discrimination Claims...
The Regional Court in Hamburg rejected complaints by newspapers Zeit Online and Handelsblatt seeking to have Eyeo GmbH prohibited from selling its AdBlock Plus software. The ruling establishes the...
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Covington Internet of Things Update: Voice Technologies, Meet the EU...
This post was originally published on the Covington InsidePrivacy blog on January 19, 2018. On January 12, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas closed its doors for another...
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Covington Internet of Things Update: BEREC Confirms European 5G Strategy...
BEREC, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, recently held its 34th public debriefing in Brussels. It confirmed, among other developments, that it has made 5G a strategic...
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Covington IoT Update: Best Practices for Outsmarting Common Pitfalls in Smart...
City leaders across the globe are predicted to spend upwards of $41 trillion by 2020 to deploy smart city technologies within their locales. From Toronto to Tokyo, cities are vying to harness the...
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IoT Update: The European Commission consults on building trust in Connected...
The European Commission (the “Commission”) has launched an Open Public Consultation for building trust in Connected and Automated Mobility (the “CAM Consultation”) on the main challenges linked to the...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Publishes Study on Blockchain and the GDPR
On July 24, 2019, the European Parliament published a study entitled “Blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation: Can distributed ledgers be squared with European data protection law?” The...
View ArticleEuropean Parliamentary Research Service issues a briefing paper on...
On 19 September 2019, the European Parliamentary Research Service (“EPRS”)—the European Parliament’s in-house research service—released a briefing paper that summarizes the current status of the EU’s...
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