Ron advises on a wide range of technology related transactions, investments and compliance matters working primarily with clients in the software and digital field, electronics and telecoms, medical devices and life sciences. Ron also gained much experience in the aerospace and automotive, cleantech, consumer products, branded goods and food industries.
On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). The adequacy decision is designed to relieve U.S.-based businesses and other institutions and organisations that choose to participate in the DPF from legal uncertainties and administrative burdens continue reading...
Since the emergence of the Internet, under current European Union rules, services that host user-generated or user-contributed content have enjoyed legal immunity from liability, provided they take down unlawful content once notified of it. This existing regime gave online platforms, such as search engines, social continue reading...
The European Union (“EU”) has shaped and developed Intellectual property (“IP”) policy extensively over the years. IP law in EU member states is today largely a matter of EU law. Key areas of IP are dominated by EU rights and institutions. Separating the United Kingdom continue reading...
In a dramatic and widely reported decision of 12 July 2020 in the case known as Schrems II (Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Ltd), the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) invalidated the decision of the EU Commission that gave legal effect continue reading...
Now that the political rollercoaster of the past 3 years over Brexit has drawn to a close with the UK electorate falling firmly behind Boris Johnson and a Conservative Party determined to leave the European Union (EU) with no further delays, the new withdrawal agreement continue reading...
Earlier this week, the Court of Justice of the European Union, perhaps for the first time, drew a territorial limitation to the requirements imposed under the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’). The court held that an individual’s exercise of their “right to be forgotten” in continue reading...
The European Union’s highest court will have another opportunity to consider the issue of the liability of online platforms for copyright infringing content uploaded and shared by users. Two referrals from national courts (one Austrian and one German) are pending before the Court of Justice, continue reading...
The English courts have traditionally been a popular forum for defamation claims, not least because English law allows even non-residents who have minimal reputation in the UK to sue for defamation in the English courts and be awarded substantial damages. English law is seen as continue reading...
When the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) last week revoked the EU trade mark registration for the mark ‘BIG MAC’, following a challenge brought by an Irish fast-food chain, SUPERMAC’S, it was hailed by the media as a triumph for a small business in its continue reading...
For our U.S. readers with Thanksgiving and food still on their minds, the TMCA thought it would be timely to comment on recent news from Europe about cheese. The Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) held that there was no copyright in the continue reading...
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