11/20/2025 3:19:12 PM Addressing database rights: Royal Mail successfully protects rights in its Postcode Address File By Quinn Liang Introduction Case: IDDQD Limited and Royal Mail Group Limited v Codeberry Limited and Lee Paul Smith [2025] EWHC 2561 (Ch) The Postcode...
2/21/2025 2:48:06 PM “Shambles” TV show format not protected by copyright as a dramatic work By Quinn Liang Heidi Hurdle In a recent judgment, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) refused dramatic work copyright protection to the format of a TV...
2/21/2025 10:24:24 AM EPO Board of Appeal Decides Pig/Human Chimera Patent Offends Human Dignity By Quinn Liang Mario Subramaniam The EPO Board of Appeal (“BoA”) recently rejected a patent application relating to pig-human chimeras, concluding that the invention was...
2/11/2025 3:50:42 PM Medical Devices in the UK: Changes to Post-Market Surveillance By Sophie Vo Quinn Liang On 11 December 2024, the MHRA published an updated roadmap for the future of the regulatory framework for medical devices in the UK,...
2/13/2024 11:25:58 AM UK: Court of Appeal confirms the CMA has the power to require overseas companies to produce documents and information By Saskia King Louise Lanzkron Quinn Liang In a significant recent judgment, the English Court of Appeal has confirmed that the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has the...
2/6/2024 5:15:59 PM CMA approach to the digital markets regime – Bird & Bird Summary By Saskia King Quinn Liang The CMA has recently published an overview of how it intends to operate the new digital markets competition regime as currently proposed...
1/18/2024 4:10:00 PM UK: Game on – Valve’s geo-blocked games infringe EU competition law By Quinn Liang Saskia King The EU’s General Court upheld the European Commission’s gaming-related decision that Valve had breached EU competition law. As a result,...
1/17/2024 11:40:48 AM UK: Trends in Digital Markets & Regulating Immersive Technologies: What’s on the Horizon for the CMA and the DRCF? By Saskia King Quinn Liang The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the UK Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) published two horizon scanning...