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 access our archive of weekly emails at http://www.out-law.com/page-7793. The OUT-LAW Team ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. 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 http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=8860 2. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-8858 3. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-8859 4. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-8856 5. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-8849 6. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-8847 ***OUT-LAW Radio: A new front in copyright battle*** We investigate the shifting of the main front in the music industry's battle against piracy: they now want ISPs to police networks for them, and look to have government backing. Plus: a software amnesty breaks out in Glasgow. 07/02/2008 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.)