Monthly Archives: August 2024

“FRAND negotiations workshops have shown promise in resolving disputes involving large patent portfolios through pre-litigation mediation.” Patent licenses include a complicated assortment of interdependent terms and conditions. Successfully negotiating patent licenses, especially patent portfolio licenses, requires both parties to make business-driven tradeoffs to reach mutually acceptable agreements. Mutually acceptable rarely means that either party believes …

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A significant case in the fight against energy mis-selling, worth in excess of £100k has been granted permission to appeal, says specialist claims firm, Business Energy Claims (BEC). The decision to grant permission to appeal comes alongside a number of other court cases heading to the Senior Courts and represents a potential significant step forward …

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Administrators and lawyers handling the affairs of collapsed firm SSB Group could not even find enough available funds to pay their own fees, it has emerged. A newly-published report on the first six months of the administration by FRP Advisory, has revealed that the sale of the Sheffield firm’s work in progress comes to just …

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This might sound trite, but a common cliché is “you have to be happy with yourself before you are going to be happy with someone else.” Yes, that is true, but what happens when two people were happy, they got married, and then some life change causes one of the people to be unhappy, spiral …

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Litigation is something most individuals or businesses enter as a last resort, often because there is just no other option left open to them. The converse of this standard position is the vexatious litigant. The ‘berserker’ of the legal world – hellbent on pursuing numerous applications in a body of cases repeatedly, simultaneously or recurrently. …

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When I was newly separated, I was brokenhearted. I also had feelings of fear, anger, resentment and confusion. I felt like I was living in a fog, like maybe I’d wake up the next day and this would all have been a dream. Unfortunately, the nightmare was real. What I do remember so vividly, even …

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Criminal defence solicitors do not have the capacity or resources to support 24-hour courts, the chair of a practitioner group has told the Ministry of Justice in response to reports that the additional courts protocol could be activated to deal with cases arising from the current wave of riots sweeping the country. On Sunday, prime …

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In the heart of Hollywood, a new star is rising—but it’s not the next A-list celebrity. Artificial intelligence is taking center stage, promising to revolutionize filmmaking while simultaneously creating a legal labyrinth that could cost unwary creators up to $150,000 per infringement. As AI tools become increasingly sophisticated, filmmakers find themselves walking a tightrope between …

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Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has instructed a high-powered legal team to defend him in his criminal case following his guilty plea to making indecent images of children. Edwards is being represented by BCL Solicitors, the slogan of which is ‘Shelter through the Storm’, according to the London firm’s website. BCL specialises in corporate crime, …

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