Category: Data Protection

What is a Patent?

A?patent?is a single right giving protection to inventions, typically for a period of 20 years.? Inventions that can be protected by a patent include processes as well as products. A patent may be secured for the UK either through the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) or the European Patent Office (EPO).

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Data survey-Information technology

This month saw the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announce that it was launching a survey in order to understand more about information governance frameworks in local councils.

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Lawdit’s guide to Social Media

Lawdit’s guide to Social Media Law (‘ SML’) One thing is for sure – it’s not going away! So from parents to schools to businesses – Adapt to it, embrace it and get used to it. “Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years” – Steven Spielberg.

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Data survey-Information technology

This month saw the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announce that it was launching a survey in order to understand more about information governance frameworks in local councils.

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Norwich Pharmacal

Norwich Pharmacal orders. If you or your company has been damaged by a third party that cannot be identified, you may think that all is lost. Wrong! This is where Norwich Pharmacal Orders step in.

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Facebook loses legal bid

Facebook has lost the first round in its legal bid to prevent a 14-year-old girl from suing it over a naked picture of her that was posted on a “shame page” on the site as an act of revenge.

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Facebook loses legal bid

Facebook has lost the first round in its legal bid to prevent a 14-year-old girl from suing it over a naked picture of her that was posted on a “shame page” on the site as an act of revenge.

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Transfer of Data

WhatsApp will now pass on users’ information onto its parent company, Facebook so if you have an account with Facebook expect the transfer of data to take place pdq.

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Transfer of Data

WhatsApp will now pass on users’ information onto its parent company, Facebook so if you have an account with Facebook expect the transfer of data to take place pdq.

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