Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A – International Issues
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the ECCTA and Its Impact on Fraud Prevention with Vince Walden
Everything Compliance: Episode 158, The No to Corruption in Ukraine Edition
Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the UK’s New Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense with Sam Tate
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 157, The Q2 2025 Great Women in Compliance Edition
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
Great Women in Compliance: GWIC X EC Q2 2025 - Exploring Compliance Innovations
An Ounce of Prevention Podcast | The International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce and the Future of Global Enforcement
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 24, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 23, 2025, The Gutless Wonders Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, May 3, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 30, 2025, The 4 AM Wake-Up Call Edition
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Stablecoins: Regulatory Issues for UK and EU Banks To Consider
An Ounce of Prevention Podcast | Preparing for the UK Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence
Compliance into the Weeds: Global Anti-Corruption Leadership
The United Kingdom's Court of Appeal has issued an important decision on the principles governing the grant of interim licenses in standard essential patent ("SEP") disputes....more
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is fueling a surge in global patent filings for AI-related innovations, but differences in national patent laws and examination standards for such inventions...more
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is revolutionizing the way patents are enforced in Europe, and McDermott’s intellectual property team is here to help you navigate this dynamic landscape. Our Legal Lens on the Unified Patent...more
This is the third issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that highlights developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed to be...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that outlines a new framework for collaboration between the two...more
This marks the first issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that will highlight developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed...more
Organizations developing or using generative AI tools should implement cross-functional governance frameworks to develop and continuously monitor their use of such tools. From the earliest stages of generative AI use,...more
The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is currently running a ‘call for views’ on the UK designs framework post-Brexit. The consultation closes at 11.45pm on 25 March 2022. The IPO is seeking evidence from designers and...more
At the end of October 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched its second consultation on artificial intelligence. The consultation is seeking evidence and views on the extent to which patents and copyright should...more
There is still time to provide input to the UKIPO on copyright protection of computer-generated works, copyright exceptions for text and data mining and AI inventorship of patents as the government bids to make Britain a...more
The U.K. released a National AI Strategy with a ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower in our new age of artificial intelligence. The Strategy intends to “signal to the world [the U.K.’s] intention to build the...more
UK strives to “be a leader in AI technology” as it sets out its next steps for the regulation of artificial intelligence. On 23 March 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published the outcome of its...more
On 31 January 2020, the UK left the European Union and entered a transition period that is due to end at 11:00 pm GMT on 31 December 2020. At this point, it is still uncertain whether a new EU/UK deal will be reached. To...more
The Court’s decision rested on whether the patents provided outstanding benefit to the employer’s undertaking. On 23 October, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) handed down its highly anticipated ruling in Shanks v Unilever [2019]...more
On May 16 the second edition of our new global series, Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons, took place in London featuring two panel discussions that focused on the challenges and opportunities in two of the sector’s...more
On 6 February 2019 the House of Commons and House of Lords approved The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (Patent SI), which, if it is signed into law, will come into force on Brexit day (i.e. 29 March 2019 or...more
The United Kingdom is likely to exit the European Union on either March 29, 2019, or on December 31, 2020, depending on whether there is “a deal” (there’s always a chance the parties extend the negotiations or the UK revokes...more
The UK government’s technical notices provide some certainty for holders of cross-border copyrights, trade marks, patents and other IP rights. On 24 September 2018, the UK government published a series of technical notices...more
As has been widely reported in the recent weeks, the UK government is currently trying to progress negotiations on a withdrawal agreement and a framework for its future relationship with the EU. However, uncertainty remains...more
Progress is being made regarding the protection of intellectual property (“IP”) rights in a post-BREXIT scenario on both sides of the English Channel. With BREXIT fast approaching, the European Union (“EU”) and the United...more
• The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPATPP) is scheduled to be signed on March 8, 2018, in Santiago, Chile. • CPATPP, also known as TPP-11, is the result of the United States'...more
Speaking in a Delegated Legislation Committee hearing, the proxy for debate in the House of Commons on the draft Unified Patents Court (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2017, the UK’s IP Minister yesterday expressed the...more
As the interest in blockchain technology grows, companies will be confronted with numerous decisions, challenges, and legal issues pertaining to its adoption. Relevant matters include the overall design and control of...more
Agenda: • UK Supreme Court Decision on Infringement – “Equivalents” – Use of the prosecution history • Doctrine of Equivalents in the United States • Plausibility before the EPO and UK courts – Inventive step of...more
In our latest memorandum, we have briefly outlined some of the main legal implications of Brexit according to different models, including the EEA model. In light of recent comments made by Theresa May, it is unlikely that...more