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TLA Blockchain Legal and Regulatory Group and Law Society Guidance Released

Celebrating the start of London Tech Week 2020, The TLA Blockchain Legal and Regulatory Group and Law Society Guidance was released this morning at 8am.

7 Sep 2020

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Age Appropriate Design Code in force on 2 September 2020: Companies have 12 months to prepare

The Information Commissioner's Office (the ICO) has confirmed that its Age Appropriate Design Code, designed to ensure that children's personal data has a baseline of protection automatically by design and default, is now in force from 2 September 2020.

2 Sep 2020

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Web 3.0 – an intelligent, connected, open internet

Web 3.0 is often referred to as the next phase in the internet's development, but what is it? This article introduces the concept of Web 3.0, its defining characteristics, the technology that underpins it, and what we might expect to see in the coming months and years.

1 Sep 2020

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Supreme Court: English courts can settle terms of worldwide FRAND licence

The Supreme Court has issued its much anticipated decision in two appeals: Unwired Planet v Huawei and Huawei / ZTE v Conversant.

27 Aug 2020

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Crypto and the FATF 'travel rule'

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the influential intergovernmental agency dedicated to combatting anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF), has recently updated its guidance to Recommendation 16, also known as the 'travel rule'.

21 Aug 2020

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Blockchain: The importance of reducing legal uncertainty

Ahead of London Tech Week 2020

17 Aug 2020

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Blue Sky Thinking: Legal implications of the Commercialisation of Drones in the UK – Part 1/2

The evolution of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the activity and markets associated with them, has been complex, and sometimes contradictory.

30 Jul 2020

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Blue Sky Thinking: Legal implications of the Commercialisation of Drones in the UK – Part 2/2

Mapping a new legal landscape

30 Jul 2020

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Sending real estate data to the US and other non-EEA countries is now a major challenge

Businesses which are currently sending data to the US in reliance on the Privacy Shield need urgently to replace those arrangements. The big question is "with what?".

30 Jul 2020

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Tom Grogan speaks on CW webinar on post-COVID digital transformation

Tom Grogan has spoken on a CW (formerly Cambridge Wireless) webinar on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected digital transformation, particularly in the healthcare sector.

29 Jul 2020

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Schrems II – sending data to the US (and other non-EEA countries) is now a major challenge

Businesses which are currently sending data to the US in reliance on the Privacy Shield need urgently to replace those arrangements. The big question is "with what?". The CJEU's recent decision in "Schrems II" means that the alternative route – Standard Contractual Clauses – is open to challenge too.

29 Jul 2020

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Anne Rose published in WIPO Magazine

Anne Rose, Associate in the Commercial team and Co-Lead of our Blockchain Group, has been published in the most recent edition of the WIPO Magazine on "Blockchain: Transforming the registration of IP rights and strengthening the protection of unregistered IP rights".

9 Jul 2020