In February and March 2021, ACT | The App Association and Competition Policy International (CPI) are collaborating on a series of webinars discussing how antitrust regulation works in the digital world. During the first event of the series, five experts explored the key issues surrounding the European Commission’s Digital Markets [...]
As the European Union’s (EU) largest market, Germany is a frequent venue for patent litigation in the region. We now live in a world of increasingly complex devices, where a simple connected device can depend on hundreds, if not thousands, of patents. Under current German law, the burden of attaining [...]
Standards-Essential Patents: Progress or regression? March 2, 2021 16:00 -17:00 CET Online Webinar Click here to register For small businesses that develop internet of things (IoT) devices, the ability to license standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms is vital to their competitiveness and innovative capacity. At a time [...]
After several rounds of public consultations, the European Commission finally released its long-awaited proposal for the Digital Services Act (DSA) on 16 December 2020 (see our statement here). Now that we have had some time to read and digest the proposed regulation, we are ready to break it down for [...]
During their last year of university in 2017, Dylan McKee and Nic Flynn, two computer scientists from Newcastle Upon Tyne launched their very own software house – Nebula Labs. The company specialises in developing mobile apps, web platforms, and tailored software solutions for start-ups, forward-thinking small enterprises, and government organisations. [...]