Please find below a short guide to some of the key legal developments for intellectual property and data protection in 2015.
The developments include a new policy on the transparency of clinical data, a preliminary ruling from the European Court of Justice on internet service provider liability for copyright infringement, a new licensing condition from the Gambling Commission, a new regime for technology transfer agreements, change to the length of copyright protection for industrially manufactured artistic works, the Trade Secrets Directive, the Consumer Rights Bill, an evaluation by the European Court of Justice of the way data is transferred to the US, new measures to combat online piracy, progress towards the ratification of the Unified Patent Court agreement, reform of UK design law, the Payment Services Directive, the enacting of the data protection reforms, an opinion on how to improve intellectual property rights enforcement by the European Commission, and the phasing out of the patent box tax break.
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Originally published 22 January 2015
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