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Private equity investment in the life sciences sector
Emma Danks, Colin McCall and team look at the benefits and challenges for life sciences businesses considering PE investment, and emerging trends. More 
UK increases scrutiny of tech and life sciences deals
Paulo Palmigiano looks at the signs of a greater level of scrutiny of life sciences deals by the CMA and UK government. More
How to prepare for the MHRA's new medical devices enforcement rules
Alison Dennis, Tim Strong and Justyna Ostrowska look at the impact of the Medicines and Medical Devices Bill 2020-21. More
Placing medical devices on the UK market after the end of Brexit transition
Alison Dennis discusses incoming rules and MHRA guidance for placing medical devices on the market in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. More
Targeted treatments – Part 4: patenting digital devices
Paul England looks at issues around patent protection for digital devices as part of a series of articles on targeted treatments. More
Patent pools: an easy licensing option?
Anja Lunze and Jan Phillip Rektorschek consider whether patent pools can play a key role in rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine. More
Why digital identity verification is big business in the financial services sector
Outsourcing in financial services
Cryptoassets: key developments and regulatory concerns
Achievement unlocked – investment and M&A in the games industry
Are gaming companies maddened by mods or embracing them?
;M&A considerations for transactions in the games sector
How will the Age Appropriate Design Code impact the games industry?
UK government responds to report on immersive and addictive technologies
UK government responds to report on immersive and addictive technologies
German gambling law – Update 2019/2020
Data protection in online gambling
Intellectual property licences and insolvency
IP licensing and insolvency reform: ipso facto clauses
Purchasing intellectual property from distressed companies
Intellectual property licences under German insolvency law
Insolvency provisions in Belgium from an IP perspective
IP and insolvency – contract and dispute counterparties
Appointing media agencies: improving transparency, access and behaviours
Advertising: Who will get it right during COVID-19?
Will COVID-19 be a game changer for sponsorship agreements?
Rights clearances for virtual events
Games or gambling? Moves to protect children from gambling harm
UK advertising and marketing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Amending or terminating media licences during COVID-19
Further protection for children's data – the Age Appropriate Design Code
Children's personal data: GDPR++
How does the AVMSD protect children?
Advertising and marketing to children
TravelTech and the country of origin principle
Charging ahead with electric vehicles
IP and media predictions: 2020
Life sciences – the "jewel in the crown" of the 2020s?
Brexit – the end of the beginning?
Trends in data, privacy and cybersecurity
Design as the default – legal design to move beyond privacy in 2020
VAT issues for online platforms
VAT issues for online platforms
Online harms: the regulation of internet content
The changing role of internet intermediaries
Fake news – How it became public enemy number one, and the challenges to fighting back
Enforcing the German Network Enforcement Act
Protecting children online – beyond data privacy
Protecting children online – data privacy
The EU's Online Platforms Regulation
All change? The impact of the revised Payment Services Directive on platforms
2019 trends in fashtech and luxury retail
Sustainable luxury: can fashion be 'fixed'?
Luxury fashion: keeping up with China's digitalised brands
Influencer advertising is in fashion
Chain reaction: modern slavery in the fashion industry
Continued growth and a shift to new markets and new players
Continued growth and a shift to new markets and new players
Employment issues in the video games industry
User-generated content in games adverts
BodyTech – a new wave of medical devices product liability litigation?
Border issues: medical devices, wellbeing and lifestyle apps
Hearing, seeing, moving – the miracle of neural prosthetics
Protecting prosthetics patients and intellectual property
The rise of the GDPR in media law
The evolution of the EU's right to be forgotten
Interim injunctions in privacy and defamation matters in Germany
Is an NDA still worth the paper it's written on?
Protecting corporate reputation after a privacy breach
IP and media law: predictions for 2019
2019 is crunchtime for cryptos: here to stay or past their heyday?
Telecoms – opportunities and challenges for the sector in 2019
Data protection and the GDPR: not to be forgotten
Cybersecurity and data breaches – the direction of travel
Amended EU Copyright Directive
The clock is ticking – can the DSM project be completed?
The EU's first steps in tackling online disinformation
The Geo-blocking Regulation – a DSM success?
Putting the Digital Single Market initiative into action
Disrupting the building blocks: smart contracts and blockchain in construction
Land registration and blockchain
2018: Trends in the purpose built student accommodation sector
Technology and media trends 2018
Progress towards a digital single market for content – a critique
The future of UK media and entertainment after Brexit
Germany's Network Enforcement Act and its impact on social networks
UK and EU developments in AI in 2018
Facial recognition technology in the EU: does GDPR spell the end?
AI and big data in the healthcare sector
Machine learning and creativity
AI is disrupting the delivery of legal services – but to what extent and how?
AI and business process outsourcing: rise of the machines
Blockchain in financial services: birth of the hybrid fintech lawyer
Open banking - open data, open access?
The FCA's Innovate programme: towards a global sandbox?
A cryptic puzzle: what is the legal status of a crypto-asset?
Who owns the Intellectual Property Rights in your startup?
Making the most of open source software
Developments in the UK venture capital tax relief regimes
South Korea's Winter Olympics win technology gold
Russia introduces new legal requirements as host of the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Ambush marketing and promotions around major sporting events
Tech in sports stadia – live sport, and beyond
Cybersecurity, data breach and incident reporting
Privilege and data subject claims after GDPR
Cybersecurity in Singapore and China
Virtual reality and IP rights: time for immersive sensations to be protected?
Cheating in games: legality and market trends
Germany's revised Copyright Act
Loot boxes from a Dutch perspective
Tech and media predictions 2018
ICOs: an increase in regulation as well as scale for 2018?
Virtual and Augmented Reality in 2018
EU reforms and audience atomisation
Data protection and cybersecurity
AI and business process outsourcing: rise of the machines
Limited breakthrough for autonomous vehicles?
Putting the connectivity in cars
Driverless cars and product liability
Protecting personal data in CAVs
Are website blocking injunctions in fashion?
Negotiating a contract to help ensure a successful IT project
Ransomware: loss and liability
Limiting liability in IT contracts
Minimising risk in IoT contracts
Security v convenience: strong customer authentication under PSD2
What is the current role of competition law in globalisation?
Hiring foreign talent in the age of globalisation
IPR protection for cross-border trade
Unauthorised 3D printing – what use are intellectual property rights?
Balancing patent protection for biologicals with third party product entry
Big Data and intangible property rights - can IPRs and rights in personal data exist in harmony?
Virtual Reality: How to protect your IP rights in a virtual world
From Big Data to Smart Data – shining a light on our cities
Robojournalism – Artificial intelligence and the media
Connectivity challenges in the smart world
Smart cities, digital assets and BIM
Trends in outsourcing for 2017
2017: dawn of a post-truth era for platform liability?
Telecoms – opportunities and challenges for the sector in 2017
EC copyright reform proposals place extra obligations on hosting platforms
The Copyright Directive proposal from a Dutch perspective
EU targets investment in high speed networks
Strong customer authentication under PSD2
Fraud in FinTech: issues, solutions and aspirations
Protection from counterparty insolvency in the FinTech industry
The website operators' defence for defamatory user generated content
Interpreting "serious harm" in the Defamation Act 2013
Privacy injunctions and the English courts
Will the new arbitration process, IPSO facto, promote voluntary press regulation?
Ambush marketing in the run up to Rio 2016
The power of personal data for sports events sponsors
Sports betting companies as sponsors – the approach in the Netherlands
Olympic broadcasting exclusivity and the challenge of user generated content
Broadcasting the Olympics in Brazil and beyond
Brexit – the potential impact on the UK's legal system
Financial services – preparing for opportunities
The potential impact of Brexit on UK competition law
Brexit from a German legal perspective
IP rights and enforcement in a post-Brexit UK
Brexit – employment law and HR implications
Brexit – data protection law is here to stay, isn't it?
Is there still room for traditional publishing in the digital age?
Publishing online to the world: do you need to seek advice everywhere?
Austria: Copyright levy system declared unlawful by Court of Appeal
Publishing in the Digital Single Market
Data protection milestones in the land of "Adaptive Learning"
Blockchain – the biggest thing since the internet?
Building blocks: developing systems using distributed ledger technology
The fragmented workplace in 2016
Standing in the way of control
Tech and media predictions for 2016
Key trends in the games industry that will define 2016
The outlook for copyright law and related areas in 2016
What lies ahead in data protection and cybersecurity?
The new Hungarian tax on online advertising
France's 'Loi Sapin' is extended to digital advertising
The good, the bad and the ugly of digital advertising
Data exports – recent and anticipated developments for adtech companies
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours
Collaborative creativity: who owns the creations?
Taxing the collaborative economy
Open Source Software and the sharing economy
Connected Health: investment opportunities
The dos and don'ts of collecting Connected Health data
Managing IT projects in the healthcare sector - a European perspective
Connected Health: regulatory issues
Where is the new medical devices legislation?
Connected Health and 3D printing?
The Digital Single Market: will pragmatism trump ambition?
What is the EC proposing to ensure effective competition in the digital market?
What might a Digital Single Market for content look like?
The Slovakian perspective on the DSM and the new Slovakian Copyright Act
Social media platforms' terms of use: what you need to be aware of
Outlining a copyright agreement in 140 characters
Practical guidance for dealing with UGC in news reporting
Meerkat and Periscope: the opportunities and legal challenges of live video streaming
Using user generated content in France for purposes of news reporting
Raising finance for and investing in games
The future of drone use - taking off or grounded by regulation?
Drones - the privacy, confidentiality and harassment dimensions
Flying low - aviation law and drones
The impact of 3D printing on the fashion industry
Changes to fashion e-commerce small print
Gazing into the tech crystal ball: TMC Predictions for 2015
Looking ahead to the data protection trends in 2015
The expanding role of data protection on media content
Predictions for Copyright in 2015
Financial Services – predictions 2015
Exhaustion of "software" patents
Health & fitness, data and patents
Languages in the Unitary Patent System
Old laws, new models: UK regulation of FinTech
The real value of virtual currencies in Germany and the UK
Crowdfunding in the UK: top tips for setting up a crowdfunding platform
Payment Services Directive 2 - changes to scope
A new regime for direct marketing
The FCA, financial promotions and social media
Data protection and electronic marketing compliance
A two track attack – patent revocation in the EPO and UK
The UPC and Unitary Patent: momentum gathers
The new Technology Transfer Block Exemption
Going to work for the competition
Safeguarding secrets - a German employment law perspective
The LinkedIn effect: the employer's or the employee's account?
A new European trade secrets regime takes shape
The wearable technology revolution: Is your workplace prepared?
Keeping your staff and confidential information safe from competitors
Possible effect of draft EU Trade Secrets Directive in Slovakia
See small print for details – upcoming changes to the small print requirements
Small print – the position in Germany
Things you need to know about licensing intellectual property rights
The complexities of territorial licensing
Dealing in digital rights: will the Copyright Hub show the way forward?
Privacy by design – essential for the growth of the Internet of Things?
Patent issues and the Internet of Things
Connecting the Internet of Things
Who owns the data in the Internet of Things?
Wearable technology enters business mainstream
Juggling the risks and opportunities of native advertising
Technological developments in 2014
Pan-European e-commerce compliance
Governing Law: Which to choose?
Where to request repayment of private copying levies
Does the CJEU require single territory licensing of streamed content?
Exhaustion of rights and digital content
Making sense of copyright across European borders
FRAND defence put on trial before European Court of Justice
Will US patent trolls soon be making their way to the UK?
Enforcement of patents in cloud computing
'Tricky Territory': Computer implemented invention patenting
Choosing the right trade mark for your digital products
Design law protection in the digital marketplace
Domain names as trade marks in Austria
Benefits of registering trade marks early
Keywords from a German perspective
Protecting trade marks in Poland
Regulation in a converged world
Media plurality - competition law issues
Advertising across different media
What sort of disruption of broadcasters' distribution can be disrupted?
Using apps for financial and payment services
Prod Designs' industry expert explains what 3D printing is
A 3D Printer’s Guide to Intellectual Property Rights
Summary of the online gambling regulations
Northern Ireland's gambling laws - changes afoot
Gambling law in Germany – an update
Online gambling regulation changes - our views
The risk of gambling with data protection requirements
Press Regulation: lessons from other media
ICO publishes response to the Leveson Report
Privacy law: themes for the courts in 2013
German personality rights in 2012
Exposing libel myth - Twitter and other social media
What technological developments will 2013 bring?
Leveson’s vision for the future of press regulation
Downloads, CDs and piracy: the good, the bad and the ugly
Moving towards a European digital single market for music
Music piracy: the German position
Are second-hand sales of downloaded music possible in the EU?
Music and the European Commission’s proposed pan-EU cloud
Music piracy: the French position
What is 4G/LTE and what can it do
New regulations to require infrastructure sharing
4G is finally coming to the UK, sort of...
UK next generation networks roll out - update
UK 4G accelerates into Summer 2013
Controlling your image in the UK
An Austrian perspective on image rights
The onshore effect of Guernsey's image rights
Employing a person or an image?
Data protection - it's no game?
The public interest defence against defamation claims
An introduction from Vinod Bange
The e-Privacy Directive in Germany
What else is going on in Data Protection?
Countdown to UK cookie compliance
Smart weapons in smartphone wars
Pan European strategies in mobile phone patent litigation
What would you do without your smartphone?
Smartphone patent wars in Germany
Advertising and social media featuring the Games
On your marks and get set for the Olympics
Reporting and broadcasting the Olympics
Have you checked your Olympics ticket?
What legal developments will 2012 bring?
What technological developments will 2012 bring?
Social Media - A review of 2011
Does intermediary liability stifle online free speech?
Speak now and repent at leisure
Net neutrality in key jurisdictions
Looking ahead: Broadcast meets internet and mobile
Product placement - a new avenue for advertisers
ATVOD - how will it impact the nascent VOD market?
Controlling TV content in the online world
How will free movement principles in the EU impact the VOD market?
Anti piracy law back on course
Fair use: copyright cure-all or distraction?
A powerful tool for copyright owners?
"Toto, we're not in satnav anymore"
Privacy and the age of inadvertent publishers
Association for Television on Demand (ATVOD)
Aggregation: demystifying database rights
Bring your own computer: the risks and challenges
Cloud computing and civil proceedings
Data protection and cloud computing
Who is liable for user generated content?
ASA extends remit to social media platforms
The latest in life sciences
We look at hot topics in life sciences, from the investment and deal environment, to incoming Brexit-related rules for medical devices, targeted treatments, and patent pools as a facilitator of the longed-for COVID-19 vaccine.