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This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM

Agency workers do not have automatic employees rights, even after years

Agency workers do not have the same rights as employees, the Court of Appeal has ruled, handing businesses a victory in ongoing struggles about employees' rights.
07/02/2008

Truth, Lies and Broadband: rivals fail to ban Virgin ad

Rivals who tried to have a Virgin Media broadband advert banned have failed in their attempt. The advert has been cleared by watchdog the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) despite claims that the ads were misleading and called competitors liars.
06/02/2008

New England Patriots victims of trade mark hubris

American football team the New England Patriots applied for a trade mark on the phrase 19–0 to represent the 18 games leading up to last Sunday's Super Bowl and the victory they had predicted for themselves. They then lost the match.
06/02/2008

Cost of pan-European patent protection to plummet in May

The cost of pan-European patent protection will be slashed on 1st May this year, the date when a new agreement on translations comes into effect. Full translations of applications filed in English will no longer be required.
05/02/2008

Google may seek Yahoo! alliance to rebuff Microsoft

Google is said to be in talks with Yahoo! about creating a business alliance that would help the beleaguered search veteran fend off a hostile takeover bid by Microsoft. Google has already published a highly-critical opinion of the proposed deal.
04/02/2008

Privacy law limits about to be set by top courts of UK and Europe

OPINION: In the coming weeks some long-running questions about the very nature of privacy and data protection will be answered by the highest possible courts.
01/02/2008