Articles by ‘John North’

Earlier this year Royds published a “White Paper” entitled “The Emperor’s New Pension, or, How Most British Defined-Benefit Pension Schemes Have Been Calculating Pensions Wrongly for the Last 20 Years”.

It’s not been a good couple of weeks for Apple as the patent and design sagas continue.

Apple has lost its appeal in the UK against Samsung for infringing design rights registered in connection with the iPad. Apple has now lost a series of  international lawsuits against Samsung based on the design of their tablets including cases in the Netherlands, Australia and the US.

We reported back in May that French data privacy regulator CNIL was examining Google’s new privacy policy which consolidated 60 separate privacy policies into one single agreement.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and other leading tech firms, patent officers, regulators and academics met in Switzerland last week to discuss whether action is needed to prevent patent disputes in the industry which people fear will stifle future innovation.

In the ever changing worlds of social media, e-commerce and advertising, companies venturing into these areas have to comply with increasingly complex rules and regulations. Recently in the press there has been focus on the issue of unsolicited marketing.

The Oxfordshire Business Barometer is a quarterly survey designed to provide an insight into what it’s like to do business in the county, showcase best practice and highlight some of the challenges. Through our…

In 2008 the UK became one of the first countries in the world to pass legislation aimed at cutting carbon emissions and managing climate change.

This week has seen the strain between the freedom of speech and the internet.

Following consultation with relevant businesses, The Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) published a report outlining its priorities for the development of Tech City.

This 134 page report was written by Max Nathan, Emma Vandore and Rob Whitehead at the Centre for London, which is a politically independent, not for profit think tank focused on big policy changes for London. There are six sections to the report: introduction, cities and the digital economy, understanding the cluster, views from inner East London firms, future scenarios and conclusions/recommendations.

In the case of UseSoft GMBH v Oracle International Corp (C-128/11) the European Court of Justice at Luxembourg last week handed down an important judgment concerning the right of software companies to control the re-sale of their product licenses by their customers, which will impact downloadable content sale models within the EU.