Hi, Here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News. As always, click the links to read the full stories of the summaries below or see these and many other stories from this week's news at http://www.out-law.com/page-5951. You can also now access our archive of weekly emails at http://www.out-law.com/page-7793. The OUT-LAW Team ***Free OUT-LAW Breakfast Seminars*** London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh May 2007: Overseas transfers of personal data See: http://www.out-law.com/page-6024 ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Patent damages not refunded if EPO cancels patent Damages for patent infringement awarded by a UK court must not be paid back even if the patent is later declared invalid by the European Patent Office (EPO), the Court of Appeal has ruled. 09/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8035 2. Only deliberate inducement can be punished, say Lords Someone cannot be sued for inducing another person to breach a contract unless it can be shown that the inducement was deliberate, the House of Lords has ruled in a decision which could have a significant impact on employment law. 09/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8034 3. IBM and Amazon settle patent dispute with cross licensing agreement IBM and Amazon have settled a two-way patent dispute dating from 2002 and have agreed to cross-licence each others' technologies. The deal involves Amazon paying the computers and services giant an undisclosed sum. 09/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8032 4. Government threatens TV premium rate ban The Government will ban television premium rate phone-ins if the industry cannot better regulate itself, broadcasting minister Shaun Woodward has warned. 09/05/207 http://www.out-law.com/page-8031 5. Government project reviews are not FOI exempt, says Tribunal Crucial reviews of large, ongoing Government IT projects are not exempt from the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, the Information Tribunal has ruled. The Tribunal has backed the Information Commissioner's order that the reports become public. 08/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8027 6. Legal action could follow Digg's encryption key U-turn Digg, one of the websites at the forefront of the user-generated content movement, has chosen to open itself to legal risk rather than incur the wrath of its users over controversial anti-piracy code. 04/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8022 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** We talk to Mike Ramsay, the man who invented the TiVo, the machine that redefined television and put the wind up the entertainment industry. 10/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7212 ***About this email*** This is a weekly email for subscribers of OUT-LAW.COM, a website run by international law firm Pinsent Masons of 30 Aylesbury Street, London, EC1R 0ER. Feel free to forward this email to your friends. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like your own subscription, register free at http://www.out-law.com. Existing subscribers: you can manage your profile at http://www.out-law.com/page-520. The email address for this subscription is <>. Feel free to give us your feedback by replying to this email. To unsubscribe, please reply with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. (We'd also appreciate you telling us why you've decided to unsubscribe.)