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27 Feb 2009
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) can assess the fairness of bank charges for unauthorised overdrafts, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. Seven banks and one building society have vowed to appeal the ruling to the House of Lords.
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27 Feb 2009
Two concepts at the heart of patent law are not synonymous, the House of Lords has ruled. The judgment in a dispute over anti-depressant medicines is likely to clarify a complex point of patent law.
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26 Feb 2009
New rules preventing life companies from using surpluses held in with-profits funds to meet compensation costs will only apply to policies sold after the rules come into force, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced this week.
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26 Feb 2009
New criminal investigation powers granted to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) by consumer protection laws have been used for the first time. The OFT has conducted raids while investigating a suspected scam in Bristol.
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26 Feb 2009
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against navigation device maker TomTom, claiming that its technology infringes Microsoft-owned patents. Some of the alleged infringement is a result of TomTom's use of Linux technology, Microsoft said.
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26 Feb 2009
The New Zealand government has delayed by a month a controversial plan that critics say will allow internet users to be cut off just because they have been accused of copyright infringement.
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26 Feb 2009
News agency The Associated Press (AP) has won the right to fight a court battle to defend a property right over facts. Copyright law does not protect facts, but AP has been permitted to make its defence based on a 1918 case on 'hot news'.
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26 Feb 2009
Broadcaster Sky should have made sure its websites could handle the traffic generated by its promotional advertising, and should have made a web offer available on the phone once it ran into problems, the advertising regulator has said.
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25 Feb 2009
New regulations implementing the 'polluter pays' principle for environmental damage come into force in England on 1st March 2009, nearly two years after an EU Directive's original deadline.
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25 Feb 2009
The Government has promised to train more of its technology staff to use open source software in a bid to increase the use of open source in the public sector. It will also include in contracts the stipulation that software can be re-used by other departments....
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