Topic: Intellectual property
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August 11, 2025
On 1 May 2025, the first phase of reform of European design law entered into force. Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/73 together, as phase I, form part of a broader modernisation initiative (the so-called “Designs and Models Package”) being implemented in two phases.
German Federal Court refers ad blocker case back to Hamburg Higher Regional Court
August 11, 2025
On 31 July 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) issued its decision (decision of 31 July 2025 - I ZR 131/23) in the long-running dispute between Axel Springer and Eyeo (Adblock Plus), referring the case back to the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg for further examination. (Our previous blog, Germany: Copyright and ad blockers, summarises the earlier stages of this litigation.)
German Federal Court of Justice decision in Sony v. Datel: Its implications for gaming, cheat tools and EU software copyright law
August 06, 2025
Cheat software has long been a thorn in the side of game publishers. But does it also constitute a copyright infringement? In a landmark decision, issued on July 31, 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that cheat tools that merely manipulate in-game variables in RAM - without altering the program code - do not violate software copyright under EU law.
UK: Latest trends in technology disputes
July 31, 2025
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP’s Cyber and Technology team recently hosted a roundtable dinner in London, bringing together technology lawyers and a diverse group of clients from leading financial institutions and tech-driven businesses.
Intellectual property rights on insolvency: risks and remedies for a licensee
July 08, 2025
What are the principal areas of risk for a licensee of IP rights when the licensor enters into an insolvency process? What are the steps that a licensee may take to protect itself in potential future insolvency proceedings of its licensor?
Generative AI: Updated global guide to key IP considerations
June 02, 2025
Generative AI systems are trained using vast amounts of data, often taken from sources in the public domain that may be protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. So could training a generative AI system using publicly accessible copyright work constitute an infringement? And could the output infringe?
IP monitor: OECD AI paper: IP issues in AI trained on scraped data
March 26, 2025
Developing high-performance generative AI systems and other AI systems based on machine learning often requires access to vast amounts of data for training (AI training data) and improving their accuracy and performance, and data scraping is an approach that is taken to generate large enough data sets.
UK Government consults on copyright and Artificial Intelligence
January 15, 2025
The UK government has issued a new consultation, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, under which it is proposing to address a tension that exists between:
Germany: Copyright and ad blockers
November 25, 2024
Does a browser plug-in that suppresses advertisements on websites (a so-called “ad blocker”) by manipulating browser-generated data structures constitute an unauthorised modification of a computer program, and so amount to an infringement of copyright under Germany copyright law?
Skykick v Sky: The UK Supreme Court's decision
November 14, 2024
The UK Supreme Court has handed down its hotly-anticipated trade mark decision in the Skykick v Sky case. The Supreme Court judgment was given notwithstanding that the parties having settled the dispute, indicating the significance of the points of law that were raised in the case.