Second Annual Postgraduate Forum at The City Law School
On 9th May 2013 Prof Jason Chuah, Head of School, Prof Lorna Woods, Associate Dean for Research, and Dr Mauro Barelli, Senior Tutor for Research, welcomed research students and members of staff to the second annual Postgraduate Forum of The City Law School. The event provided an opportunity for PhD students to present their work-in-progress … Read more
By Enrico Bonadio The relationship between standardization processes, intellectual property rights and competition rules has increasingly become of interest in the recent years. Recent investigations of the European Commission confirm that standardization processes and in particular ownership of IPRs that cover standardized technology might in certain circumstances infringe competition rules. The article first explores the … Read more
Upcoming Publication by Dr Paul Gragl: “The Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights”
After more than 30 years of discussion, negotiations between the Council of Europe and the European Union on the EU’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights have resulted in a Draft Accession Agreement. This will allow the EU to accede to the Convention within the next couple of years. As a consequence, … Read more
Andy Coulson Wins Appeal Over Legal Fees
By Snigdha Nag, employment law expert at The City Law School, City University London Today, in an embarrassing loss to News Group Newspapers, Andy Coulson, the former Editor of the News of the World, has successfully appealed the High Court’s decision that Newsgroup Newspapers is not liable for his legal fees in phone hacking … Read more
Online Safety Bill
The Online Safety Bill today received its second reading in the House of Lords. The aim of the bill, which follows the recommendations of the Independent Parliamentary Enquiry into Online Child Protection, is to “make provision about the promotion of online safety” and as the preamble makes clear this extends to mobile phone operators as … Read more
Advertising Standards Authority and the Internet
There has been lots of discussion about press regulation and self regulation of late, with the PCC clearly in need of reform. There are still voices arguing that self-regulation can work and often the ASA/CAP system is paraded of one such system of self-regulation that works. Certainly, the ASA is an effective organisation, but it … Read more
Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products Under EU Intellectual Property Law
Plain packaging is a new, yet unapplied, tobacco control policy tool. It would remove from cigarettes boxes all fancy and design elements displayed on packaging, such elements usually being registered by tobacco manufacturers as trademarks. The article explores the compatibility of this new measure with EU intellectual property law (in particular with trademark and design … Read more
ISEL Meeting, 10 October 2012: Recent Developments in EU External Relations Law and the Competition between the Council of Europe and the European Union in the Regulation of Broadcasting
This week’s ISEL Meeting (Institute for the Study of European Laws) was dedicated to the most recent developments in the European Union’s external relations and saw presentations on both the general aspects of this field of law (including the interinstitutional strife between the Union’s organs about questions of competence) and a very particular legal issue … Read more
Compulsory Licensing of Patents: The Bayer/Natco Case
On 9th March 2012 the Indian Controller of Patents granted the first compulsory licence in India. Indian generics producer Natco Pharma Ltd. has been granted the right to produce and sell in India Bayer’s patented medicine “Sorafenib”, which is useful for treating advanced stage liver and kidney cancer. After a brief introduction on cumpulsory licences … Read more
India Grants a Compulsory Licence of Bayer’s Patented Cancer Drug: The Issue of Local Working Requirement
post by Enrico Bonadio The report analyses the first compulsory licence granted by the Indian government. The author argues that the decision adopted by India might be in violation of the non discrimination principle enshrined in Article 27(1) TRIPS Agreement For the full report see here.
