26 Feb, 2021 The Kalifa Review of UK Fintech: UK Fintech’s difficult second decade? By Slaughter and May The Kalifa Review of UK Fintech: UK Fintech’s difficult second decade? An independent review on key priority areas for the UK Fintech...
26 Feb, 2021 Does what happens in Vegas actually stay in Vegas?: copyright ownership and employment By Slaughter and May Back in 2003 the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority created a very well-known slogan which would later become a part of everyday...
26 Feb, 2021 Not on target: Why US products on Amazon.com do not infringe UK and EU trade marks By Slaughter and May Amazon is a global e-commerce phenomenon with millions of customers across 19 country marketplaces. The global nature of Amazon invites...
19 Feb, 2021 EU publishes draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK By Cindy Knott The EU Commission has published two draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK, one under the GDPR and the other...
18 Feb, 2021 Data privacy and M&A: the issues you really can’t ignore By Slaughter and May We recently hosted a webinar as part of PL&B’s 33rd Annual International Conference on data privacy and M&A. During the session, we...
16 Feb, 2021 3 month reprieve for UK based .eu domain registrants - EURid By Slaughter and May As we warned in an earlier Lens post here, some UK entities who had registered some 142,000 UK based .eu domain names had a potentially...
15 Feb, 2021 The Confidence Game: What Trailfinders means for recipients of potentially confidential information By Slaughter and May Are you confident about your confidentiality obligations? It’s every employer’s worst nightmare: employee leaves a company to go work...
12 Feb, 2021 Pay to play: Judge rules lawyers leading group action against British Airways cannot recover costs of advertising By Ross O'Mahony In group actions, publicity often pulls in more plaintiffs. TV advertising has long been used by claimant firms in the United States to...
01 Feb, 2021 Judge raises the stakes: domain names are intangible property By Slaughter and May Business.com for $345m in 2007. Lasvegas.com for $90m in 2005. Carinsurance.com for $49.7m in 2010. Given the eye watering sums of money...
01 Feb, 2021 Driving AI development: new UK AI roadmap released By Slaughter and May On 6 January 2021 the UK Government published an independent report on AI carried out by the AI Council (an independent expert committee...