On Wednesday, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published its fifth Cyber Security Breaches Survey for 2020....

European data protection regulators have been quick to publish statements emphasising that data protection laws do ‘not hinder measures...

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently streamlined its guidance on how organisations can mitigate malware and ransomware...

In previous posts here and here we have looked at the so-called demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the Unitary Patent (UP) from...

Despite the increase in paperless offices, many businesses still struggle with ensuring their manual records comply with EU and UK data...

Three weeks ago, after threatening to do so for years, the Australian Parliament quietly passed a bill to phase out the Australian...

At a time when the priority for the UK government (after dealing with COVID-19, obviously) should be securing a good trade deal with the...

The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently published its Patent Index 2019 which analyses patent filing trends in 2019.  Tech patent...

Organisations grappling with a variety of issues raised by the coronavirus should ensure that ‘increased cyber risk’ is on the list of...

We recently reported that the UK is no longer intending to participate in the EU’s Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent (UP)...

On 12 March the Bank of England published a discussion paper exploring the possibility of it issuing Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)...

The ICO has been focused for some time on developing an AI auditing framework and, on 19 February 2020, it published its draft ‘Guidance...

The new Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, gave his first Budget Statement yesterday.  The Budget specifically recognises that "competition is...

Understandably, dealing with the economic impact of Covid–19 dominated Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first Budget. But the UK government...

Tech-related patents have long been a key business asset in the US, and (despite issues around patenting computer programs) are becoming...