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A fashion retailer has successfully defended a claim of infringement of unregistered design rights brought against it by a clothing designer. The designer mainly promoted herself through social media. Her work had achieved recognition in two fashion...
A software company that provides data processing services to organisations, including the NHS and other healthcare providers, has been fined more than £3 million by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following a ransomware attack. The attack...
If you discover that someone else has registered a UK domain name which is similar to your business's own name or trading style, you can make a complaint to Nominet UK through its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS). Recently, an architectural company succeeded...
The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court has rejected a supermarket chain's application for summary judgment on its claim that a trade mark it was accused of infringing was invalid. A company claimed that the supermarket chain had infringed a trade mark...
Following an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), a motor insurance worker who unlawfully accessed personal data on his employer's systems has received a suspended prison sentence. The worker led a team dealing with accident...
The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court has upheld a passing off claim brought by the owner of a dog grooming business against a woman who provided dog grooming services using the business's name. The woman had previously been involved in the business,...
An NHS trust has been issued with a reprimand by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for failing to respond to subject access requests (SARs) in a timely manner. Article 12(3) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires data...
The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court has refused applications to strike out two claims of breach of contract, or alternatively for summary judgment on the claims, concluding in each case that the claim must go to trial . The claims involved two...
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, announced by the Government in the King's Speech, is to be introduced to Parliament this year. The UK's existing cyber security regulations, the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 , were inherited from...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to a local authority in respect of a breach of Article 5(1)(f) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation. The local authority had included a spreadsheet in its response to a Freedom of...
