Google was fined amid increasing international pressure on online platforms to share more of the revenue they generate from using media outlets’ news. Head of Google France, Sebastien Missoffe said: “We disagree with a number of legal elements, and believe that the fine is disproportionate to our efforts to reach an agreement and comply with […]
A number of recent high-profile employee misclassification class actions, such as those directed against Uber and DoorDash, have had profound implications for employment law. This month, we hear from Eric S Block and Justine Lindner of McCarthy Tétrault, who discuss employee misclassification class actions as they have unfolded in Canada.
Marie Napoli is an experienced litigator in cases of defective health and hygiene products that have been targeted at women. Below, she explores some of the most high-profile cases of defective products harming women in the USA and the legal action that resulted, while also examining the regulations that allowed these products to be sold on store shelves.
Corporate criminal liability has been transformed beyond all recognition, with companies now having to behave ‘responsibly’ or face not merely reputational damage but criminal prosecution and highly punitive fines. Tom McNeill, senior associate at BCL Solicitors, analyses the current position and identifies the corporate risks.
Speaking with established trial attorney James Urbanic, we explore the statutes that protect whistleblowers in California and the wider United States. He shares his experience in protecting employees from retaliation for complaining of harassment or discrimination in the workplace and offers his insight on how jurors’ attitudes towards whistleblowing have shifted.
Texas-based Data Engine Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Research, first sued Mountain View California-based Google in 2014, claiming that its Google Sheets spreadsheet programme infringed patents related to using notebook-style tabs to arrange and display information in three-dimensional electronic spreadsheets. However, under the patents’ definition, Google Sheet does not count as a “three-dimensional spreadsheet”, […]
Flavia Stefura, Senior Associate at MPR Partners, shares the disadvantages of using your own name as a trademark with Lawyer Monthly. There is power in names, or so the saying goes. That is most certainly true in the world of luxury fashion brands. Some of the most renowned fashion houses are named after their founders: […]
As the Delta variant of the covid-19 virus causes infection rates to increase globally, some big businesses, such as Norwegian Cruise Line, have responded by establishing vaccination requirements. This has prompted legal challenges from civil libertarians and vaccine sceptics. Norwegian plans to make its first departure in many months on August 15 from Miami. However, […]
Oatly, which is the world’s largest oat milk company, has been defeated at the High Court by Glebe Farm Foods based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Oatly had accused the family-run business of taking unfair advantage of its trademarks with a gluten-free plant drink called PureOaty. The multi-million-pound brand claimed that the drink’s name, as well as […]
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