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This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
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
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
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
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
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
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
OUT-LAW Radio: What does 'non-commercial' mean?
01/10/2009: 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.
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