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China drops controversial ‘trade barrier’ for IT products
A certification scheme that threatened to ban many software and hardware
products from China has been curtailed. The scheme, which holds IT vendors to controversial standards, will be limited
to public procurement only, a government agency has said.
21/05/2009
How to spot a trade secret: mosquito net ruling explains
A consultant breached the confidentiality of his former employers when he went
to work for a rival company, the High Court has ruled. Technical details kept in a database that were used for
the benefit of the new company were trade secrets, it said.
21/05/2009
Government publishes draft Regulations on pan-EU services
The Government has published the Regulations it plans to use to help services
providers trade across borders in the European Union. The Regulations are designed to implement the EU's Services
Directive.
20/05/2009
Controversial house competition is completed as winner is chosen
The operators of a controversial competition to win a house have awarded their
Devon home as a prize in a competition which raised them £1.15 million.
19/05/2009
Please kill this cookie monster to save Europe's websites
EDITORIAL: Visit any website and there's a good chance that it will send a
cookie to your computer. But unless that cookie is essential, its delivery could become illegal under a strange new plan
that has, very quietly, won EU support.
18/05/2009
Google changes AdWords policy to allow trade marks in text of US adverts
Google will allow companies to use other people's trade marks in search engine
adverts without their owner's permission for the first time, it has said. Use has previously been restricted
to the use of trade marked terms as triggers for the ads.
18/05/2009
OUT-LAW Radio: DRM and the law
21/05/2009: We find out if DRM anti-copying technology can keep up with the
complexities of copyright law
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