Hi, here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News. As always, there are plenty of other stories from this week. You can also access our archive of weekly emails. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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
This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
China drops controversial ‘trade barrier’ for IT products
21/05/2009How to spot a trade secret: mosquito net ruling explains
21/05/2009Government publishes draft Regulations on pan-EU services
20/05/2009Controversial house competition is completed as winner is chosen
19/05/2009Please kill this cookie monster to save Europe's websites
18/05/2009Google changes AdWords policy to allow trade marks in text of US adverts
18/05/2009
Friday, 22 May 2009
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