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 28 November 2016, the UK Government made a surprising announcement at the meeting of the Competitiveness Council (an EU institution), stating that it intends to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement, marking its first commitment to a new EU initiative since the Brexit referendum…
A trademark registration for the shape of a product (usually in the form of a drawing or 3D illustration) can be useful, particularly where the product is recognised predominantly by its distinctive visual appearance. However, if that shape or appearance is also essential for achieving…
In a landmark decision that departs from previous case law, the Court of Justice of the EU, the highest court of the EU, held that a website operator that posts hyperlinks to another site that contains copyright materials posted without the right holder’s consent could…
Microsoft scored an important victory when the Second Circuit ruled that the government is not authorized to issue warrants for customer data stored overseas. In In re Warrant to Search a Certain E-mail Account Controlled & Maintained by Microsoft Corp., known as the Microsoft-Ireland case,…
Following the formal approval of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield by the European Commission on 8 July 2016, the arrangement will come into force in the U.S. commencing 1 August 2016 and will provide a convenient framework to allow U.S.-based companies to store, process and access…
On 23 June 2016 the United Kingdom electorate took the historic decision in a national referendum that the country should leave the European Union. How will that impact EU trade marks (known until recently as Community trade marks)? Well, no-one really knows yet. The decision…
It is not every day that a massive international TV hit show is found to infringe a trade mark. A decision of the English High Court, approved recently by the Court of Appeal, held that the popular 20th Century Fox teenage music show “glee” (including…
As seems to be in vogue recently (see explanation of significant change to Canada’s trade mark law here) the European Union adopted legislation to overhaul its trade mark law. The reforms are numerous and amendments to the regulations will come into force on 23 March…
On February 2, 2016, following three months of intense negotiations in the wake of the October 6, 2015 decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidating the EU-US Safe Harbor (previously in effect for over fifteen years), , the European Commission and…
On November 6, 2015, The EU Commission published a communication addressed to the European Parliament and the EU Council in an attempt to reduce current legal uncertainties surrounding the transfer of personal data from European Union countries to the U.S. The communication follows on the…
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