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 number can be registered as a trade mark but not where it describes the goods it is attached to, the European Court of Justice has ruled. The way premium phone rate companies are investigated for breaches of the industry code will be changed this spring, regulator PhonepayPlus (PPP) has said. Telecoms firms will be banned from automatically signing customers up to renewed contracts with minimum contract periods, telecoms regulator has said. It said that 15% of home phone users are tied into such contracts. Telecoms regulator Ofcom will assess the quality of the UK's telecoms networks for a two month period before delivering its first infrastructure report to the Government in August, it has said. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said that the planned creation of a pan-European Patent Court would break EU law. The European Commission has said that the ECJ opinion will not affect a second EU patent plan. The Government is working with browser manufacturers to create new settings that will help businesses comply with a controversial new EU law on cookies that is due to come into force in May.
This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
Numbers can be trade marks, but not when descriptive, rules ECJ
10/03/2011New investigations regime will accompany new premium rate code, says regulator
10/03/2011Rollover contracts with leaving penalties to be banned, says Ofcom
10/03/2011Ofcom will assess UK's networks from March until May to comply with DEA
09/03/2011Proposed patent court not compatible with EU law, says ECJ
09/03/2011Government working on browser solution for new cookie law, says spokesman
08/03/2011
Friday, 11 March 2011
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