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 ***The Sourcing Summit*** London, 18th & 19th November 2009: This event attracts both users and suppliers of outsourcing services from a wide range of sectors. It provides a platform for senior business figures to debate key issues and discuss the effects of the economic climate on outsourcing both in the immediate and the long-term. See: http://www.marketforce.eu.com/outlaw ***Free OUT-LAW Breakfast Seminars*** London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh October 2009: Behavioural advertising and the law November 2009: The future of payments See: http://www.out-law.com/page-6024 ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. ECJ advisor says roaming cap is legal The European Commission did not break EU law when it put a cap on the prices that mobile phone networks can charge for calls made and received while the user is abroad, according to an advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). 01/10/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10414 2. Punctuation 'gimmick' cannot be trade marked, says EU court Clothes and jewellery maker JOOP! cannot register an exclamation mark as a trade mark because it will be seen by consumers as just "laudatory advertising or an eye-catching gimmick", an EU court has ruled. 01/10/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10413 3. US web users reject behavioural advertising, study finds Americans do not want to be given tailored advertising based on monitoring of their online behaviour, according to what its authors call the first independent, academically rigorous survey of consumers' views. 30/09/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10410 4. Opening of UK Supreme Court finally separates judges and legislators The UK's legal landscape will change tomorrow when the Supreme Court takes over from the House of Lords as the country's highest court. 30/09/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10411 5. Default retirement age is lawful, rules High Court The UK's default retirement age of 65 does not breach European law, the High Court ruled on Friday. The ruling means that employers can continue to require employees to retire at 65, though a Government review taking place next year could change that. 29/09/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10408 6. Most of Companies Act finally comes into force Most of the 2006 Companies Act will finally come into force on Thursday when 550 sections of the massive Act are implemented, leaving only a handful of sections to be enacted. 29/09/2009 http://www.out-law.com/page-10407 ***OUT-LAW Radio: What does 'non-commercial' mean?*** We examine the term at the heart of many copyright licences and find that nobody – not lawyers, users of content, or creators of it - is exactly sure what it means. 01/10/2009 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.