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. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-10034 2. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-10036 3. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-10033 4. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-10030 5. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-10022 6. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-10025 ***OUT-LAW Radio: DRM and the law*** We find out if DRM anti-copying technology can keep up with the complexities of copyright law 21/05/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-7212 ***About this email*** This is a weekly email for subscribers of OUT-LAW.COM, a website with more than 8,000 pages of free legal news and guidance. If and when you need further advice, we hope you'll choose Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM. 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.) This email is sent on behalf of Pinsent Masons LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in England & Wales (registered number: OC333653) and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The word 'partner', used in relation to the LLP, refers to a member of the LLP or an employee or consultant of the LLP or any affiliated firm who has equivalent standing and qualifications. A list of the members of the LLP, and of those non-members who are designated as partners, is displayed at the LLP's registered office: CityPoint, One Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9AH, United Kingdom.