Category: Spain

Hola to the Google tax

The Spanish government last month passed a new copyright law which imposes fees for online content providers ie Google News. It highlights European concerns (Germany and other European countries also sought to impose similar legislation) that Google is piggybacking on the established news providers without actually doing any reporting.

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The right to erasure-High Court to step in

No its not a reference to the band Erasure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34icYC8zA0 but an important case concerning a UK citizen and Google. (Hegglin v (1) Person(s) Unknown and (2) Google [2014] EWHC 2808 (QB), 31 July 2014.)

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Registered Designs intro

Registered Designs are often rather unfairly treated as the poor cousin of Patents. Whilst patents protect inventions designs protect, for want of a better answer,

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A single EU patent?

EU Member States have recently signed an agreement that may lead to a single EU patent. The agreement was reached at a meeting at the

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Patents in Europe

A European Patent application may be filed at the UK IPO (United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office) or in English, French or German at the European

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