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• Category: Commercial
  • No one reads website terms – why bother with them?
  • Transfer risk assessments – a frequently overlooked stage in international contracting
  • Three key things to consider in contract negotiations
  • Get it in writing
  • The new standard contractual clauses
  • Data Transfer Impact Assessments: Ensuring international transfers of data are legally compliant
  • Michael Penhallurick v MD5 Limited; who owns the code you create from home?
  • Waterfront to present legal and investment workshops for South Bank Innovation
  • Waterfront Partner Alison Berryman features in Security Matters discussing ‘force majeure’-style clauses in commercial contracts
  • Partner Alison Berryman comments in The Times on Astrazeneca’s vaccine contract with the EU.
  • Waterfront Solicitors features in Lawyer Monthly discussing commercial contracts in a COVID world
  • Share Five contract considerations for your Reg Tech business
  • Collaboration: Can smaller businesses emulate Fortnite’s success?
  • £20m GDPR fine for British Airways data breach
  • The EU-US Privacy Shield has been declared invalid – what next?
  • MORRISONS v VARIOUS CLAIMANTS – Morrisons not liable for rogue employee data breach, says Supreme Court
  • Coronavirus and force majeure: delays in performing contractual obligations
  • Welcome to the team
  • Share Part 1: Software licensing in video game development – a practical guide
  • Part 1: Software licensing in video game development – a practical guide
  • Legal 500 results announced for IT & Telecoms & Intellectual Property
  • Contracting for Software Quality
  • Waterfront ranked in the Legal 500 for IT & Telecoms & Intellectual Property
  • Waterfront outrun the competition at Great Team Relay race.
  • ICE 2016
  • Chambers & Partners 2016 recognises Waterfront’s intellectual property and corporate expertise
  • Legal 500 calls Waterfront ‘first-rate’
  • A winning collaboration – the UNESCO MGIEP game development semi-finals.
  • Move Over Usain Bolt – Waterfront Hits the Olympic Track
  • Waterfront partner Alison Berryman advocates tech
  • Apps for Good: Who Cares?
  • Mass Challenge UK Finalists: Event Report
  • Waterfront walking the Legal Walk
  • Waterfront partner in the (South East Wales) news
  • ICE Totally Gaming 2015
  • Apps for Good: building the next generation of tech entrepreneurs
  • Open Source Software – in search of more content
  • Waterfront Solicitors retains Legal 500 rankings
  • The “Don’ts” and “Dos” of Development Agreements
  • Event Report: Coadec’s #StartupManifesto Launch
  • London Technology Week – the FinTech race
  • When Fashion and Technology combine – a night at FashTechLDN
  • Consumer Regs 2013 – Information requirements
  • Consumer law is changing – 5 key pointers for online businesses
  • Games and the law – getting your contracts in order
  • Gaming and IP in 2014
  • Sponsor our Waterfront Legal Walk London team
  • Getty make 35m images royalty free, but what’s the catch?
  • Variation must be in writing? It ain’t necessarily so
  • Privacy and Apps – tips to remain one big “Appy” family
  • Facebook acquires WhatsApp in a $19 bn deal
  • LFW: Not just clothes and accessories. My 3 tips for e-commerce website developers.
  • 5 tech trends for 2014
  • Waterfront review of the year 2013
  • Why Santa Needs Contracts
  • The rise of Bitcoin
  • My love affair with the Sinclair ZX81 or why I’m an IT lawyer…
  • 7 DOs and DON’Ts for obtaining proper direct marketing consent
  • Happy startup legal toolkit launched
  • Waterfront launches LawBox:tech
  • Waterfront to exhibit at the Business Startup Show
  • Developing mobile apps: some key considerations
  • Instagram Slammed: A Cautionary Tale
  • Get Your Mobile App Licence in shape!
  • IT law update: watch Waterfront’s seminar
  • Recap of Waterfront’s Winter IT Seminar 2012
  • Top 5 Looney Laws (or things to make you go “Huh”?)
  • Just (Don’t) Do It: Lessons From Nike’s Tweet Troubles
  • Share Five things contract lawyers hate to hear
  • Battle of the forms: This means war…
  • The Cloud Crowd – should you join?
  • How contracts are formed (Part 2)
  • Offer and Acceptance: How contracts are formed.
  • Collaboration. Let’s work together…
  • SAS Institute v World Programming Limited Update
  • SAS Institute, a Visionary Innovator in the field of statistical data analysis
  • Facebook update: You’re fired! #clearyourdesk
  • Protecting Your Pitch
  • Invisible Ink – Implied Terms
  • Plain English
  • The curse of the 1-page contract!
• Category: Corporate
  • Waterfront advises Tranquiliti on investment from Tes
  • Waterfront advises Plandek on £4.5m investment led by YFM Equity Partners
  • Waterfront and a trio of its solicitors earn prestigious rankings in the 2023 Chambers legal guide
  • Waterfront advises Virtual Internships on a $14.3 million Series A investment
  • The Legal 500 international guide ranks Waterfront as among the very best law firms
  • Waterfront advises Neurofenix Limited on $7 million Series A funding round
  • Waterfront advises Virtual Internships in relation to an investment in the company by Sequoia Capital and 500 Startups Vietnam.
  • Waterfront advises the Jellyfish Pictures group on a minority investment by Key Capital Partners
  • Waterfront advises Shufti Pro Limited on $20 Million Series A Funding round
  • Waterfront advises ExSeed Health on further seed funding
  • Waterfront advises shareholders of The Wandsworth Group on sale to Gira SE
  • Waterfront advises Bloom Equity Partners on its acquisition of Soutron Global
  • Waterfront advises on Lenses.io acquisition by Celonis
  • What are directors’ duties?
  • Future Fund: Breakthrough
  • Waterfront to present legal and investment workshops for South Bank Innovation
  • Covid-19: electronic signatures and virtual signings
  • Convertible Loan Notes
  • COVID-19: Financial support for SMEs
  • Welcome to the team
  • Waterfront advises Metavallon VC in relation to pre-seed and seed capital investments totalling over €1.75m in a number of UK companies, including Racecheck, Intelistyle, Citizen UK and Entomics.
  • Advanced subscription agreements: a brief summary
  • Waterfront’s corporate team has record year, having advised on over 50 transactions, including VC investments worth over £100 million!
  • Marathon VC
  • Waterfront advises Welcome Travel Technologies Holdings Limited on its €3.3 million Series A investment round.
  • Waterfront advises Blueground Holdings Limited on $20m investment in the company.
  • Redenomination of share capital: initial considerations
  • Waterfront advises the shareholders of Wambiz in relation to the sale of the company to Allocate Software.
  • Waterfront advises the shareholders of Realla Ltd in connection with the sale of the shares to the CoStar Group.
  • The risks of reposting online content: CJEU rules on the unauthorised reposting of copyright protected works on the internet
  • Waterfront advises Ongosa Limited in connection with its seed fundraising round.
  • Waterfront advises Forbes ‘No.1 Startup to Watch’ Exseed Health Limited in connection with its equity fundraising round.
  • Early Stage Fundraising: Private Equity for Start-ups
  • Persons of Significant Control
  • Waterfront outrun the competition at Great Team Relay race.
  • Chambers & Partners 2016 recognises Waterfront’s intellectual property and corporate expertise
  • Legal 500 calls Waterfront ‘first-rate’
  • Move Over Usain Bolt – Waterfront Hits the Olympic Track
  • Waterfront advises Incrediblue on £1.2m investment
  • Crowd Funding and Crowd Generated Ideas
  • Waterfront Solicitors retains Legal 500 rankings
  • Waterfront advises on Tagpoints sale
  • Corporate team advise WAMBIZ on £600,000 investment
  • Waterfront advises Rule Financial Group shareholders
  • Waterfront helps with Phillips McDougall and Amis Global sale
  • How a legal audit can help avoid a deal falling through at the last minute
  • Waterfront advises on $4 million Taxibeat deal
  • Waterfront advises Workable on $1.5 million investment
  • Waterfront advises Egress on £2.2 million investment
  • Employee Share Schemes
  • Waterfront review of the year 2013
  • Share Buybacks
  • Happy startup legal toolkit launched
  • Waterfront launches LawBox:tech
  • Waterfront and Wazoku in ‘Deal of the Month’
  • Stay Ahead of the Competition through Innovation
  • News: Waterfront advise private investors backing management buyout of BrandAlley UK
  • Are you Connected?
  • Directors: know your (substantial property) limits!
  • Acquiring a photography business
  • Corporate News: Waterfront advise the founders of Fertecon Research Centre on the acquisition of the company by CRU
  • News: Waterfront client Find Invest Grow launches investment fund
  • Corporate News: Waterfront advise the founders of Botsphere on the acquisition of the company by BetVictor
  • News: ‘Can-Do’ Waterfront Listed in The Legal 500 2012
  • Top 5 Looney Laws (or things to make you go “Huh”?)
  • Meet our newest Partner – Matthew Cunningham
  • News: Find Invest Grow launches new asset management company.
  • Share Costs and Offers to Settle
  • Buying a small business: check, check and check again!
  • Remember Your Duties
  • Waterfront achieves success for Bluechipworld in Unlawful Threats action
  • Corporate News: Waterfront advise the founders of Fertecon on the acquisition of the company by the Informa Group
  • Corporate News: Waterfront advise the founders of Immersive on the company’s strategic alliance with Avolites
  • Corporate News: Matt Cunningham joins Find Invest Grow Advisory Board
  • Corporate News: Waterfront advise the founders of Ikonami on the acquisition of the company by Electric Word
  • Corporate News: Waterfront advise the founders of FMB Consultants on the acquisition of the company by Argus Media
  • Corporate News: Waterfront advise the founders of Nudge Social Media on the acquisition of the company by Syncapse
  • Corporate News: Waterfront advise the founders of Globrix on the acquisition by Associated Northcliffe Digital
  • Corporate News: Waterfront advise the founders of Globrix on their MBO
• Category: Employment & HR Law
  • Unauthorised deductions from wages: Mendy v Manchester City Football Club Limited
  • ‘Fire and Rehire’ – Tesco v. USDAW in the Supreme Court
  • Preventing sexual harassment of employees – the “New Duty”
  • “Fire and Rehire” – a new statutory Code
  • A New Deal for Working People – the Labour Government’s proposals for employment law reform
  • Employment law reforms – what has changed so far in 2024?
  • Employment Settlement Agreement – A Complete Guide
  • Collective Consultation Redundancy– what do employers need to know?
  • Limiting liability – reforms to sexual harassment legislation
  • Predictable working pattern requests – less flex, not more
  • Mason Greenwood and Manchester United: what can employers do when an employee is accused of a crime?
  • Flexible working – upcoming reforms
  • The Archers and Stella’s sacking: what employment rights does she have?
  • Newly announced upcoming changes to employment legislation
  • 5 alternatives to redundancy
  • Deconstructing Dominic Raab’s comments: confidentiality, NDAs, and settlement agreements
  • Flexible working requests – what is changing?
  • Twitter and “extremely hardcore” working – what are the potential legal risks?
  • Government announces the annual increase to minimum rates of pay
  • Redundancies: five ways to map out the legal risk before you start
  • Redundancies: what is pooling?
  • Redundancies: 3 Expert Tips for Employers
  • Settlement Agreements for Employers – A Complete Guide
  • How changes to the law on flexible working could help new parents
  • Settlement agreements: what is section 111A of the Employment Rights Act 1996?
  • Forstater – the substantive decision
  • Government sets out new regulations on sick notes
  • Answering your questions on settlement agreements
  • WFH, WFV, WFFH and WFT: where next for flexible working?
  • IVF and fertility treatment – what are my rights and does the law protect me?
  • Vento bands: Increases to discrimination compensation announced
  • P&O Ferries: What claims could employees bring?
  • National Minimum Wage to increase on 1st April 2022
  • Tribunal rates and compensation limits increase from 6 April 2022
  • Personal pronouns in the workplace – is misgendering discrimination?
  • Whistleblower Protection: What is a protected disclosure? Considering the five-stage test
  • Is it a reasonable adjustment to maintain an employee’s pay if an employee is only able to fulfil a lower paid role?
  • Side-hustles; can an employee have two jobs?
  • Dopson v Stag Publications – age discrimination
  • Jamie Webster looks closely at the recent “Uber” case at the Supreme Court for Lawyer Monthly
  • Employment Law: What to consider when returning your employees to the office post covid
  • Philosophical belief: EAT rules that a belief that biological sex is real, important, immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity is capable of amounting to a philosophical belief
  • “Fire and rehire”: what is it and should it be against the law?
  • Waterfront to present legal and investment workshops for South Bank Innovation
  • Settlement agreements – 10 answers for employees who have been offered a settlement agreement
  • Head of employment law Anthony Purvis features in Business Leader discussing Uber’s recent loss in the supreme court
  • Uber loses in the Supreme Court
  • Interim relief for discriminatory dismissals?
  • When is indirect discrimination lawful?
  • Employers, are you eligible for the Job Retention Bonus? Put the date in your diary now
  • IR35 UPDATE
  • Welcome to the team
  • Employment Tribunal Compensation Increases Announced
  • Employing a transgender person
  • Asking for employer references – what can you ask, and when? GDPR and other legal considerations.
  • Should internships be paid or unpaid?
  • Taxation of termination payments: what changes in April 2018?
  • Anthony speaks to The Law Society Gazette regarding gig economy reform.
  • Gender Pay Gap Reporting – 5 Action Points You Can Take Now
  • Employment Tribunal Fees have been abolished: 3 key areas employers should consider
  • Stopping the Clock: Acas Early Conciliation
  • Employee Shareholder Status: tax benefits abolished
  • Tattoos in the workplace
  • What Brexit Means For You And Your Workforce
  • Are repeat fixed-term contracts legal? We talk to Law Society Gazette.
  • Pokémon Go in the workplace
  • Waterfront outrun the competition at Great Team Relay race.
  • Whistle-blowing – has the law changed?
  • Move Over Usain Bolt – Waterfront Hits the Olympic Track
  • Employment Law: What can we expect from this government?
  • Mass Challenge UK Finalists: Event Report
  • Employment Law: Beyond the 2015 Election
  • Should overtime be included in holiday pay?
  • The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret-Confidentiality Agreements in Business
  • Employment Law: What’s new for autumn 2014?
  • The Playboy Club and the dodgy reference
  • Changes to flexible working requests due on 30th June 2014
  • HR training: saving you time and money
  • Does pensions auto-enrolment apply to consultants?
  • 5 things you need to know about ACAS Early Conciliation
  • Update: New flexible working regime delayed
  • Do all of your employees have the right to work in the UK? Are you sure?
  • What’s new in employment law for 2014? My Top 5
  • Waterfront review of the year 2013
  • Read all about it!
  • Happy startup legal toolkit launched
  • Recruiting? Watch our new employment law video guide
  • Turbo-Charging Your Workforce
  • Waterfront launches LawBox:tech
  • Waterfront Employment Law Seminar
  • Avoid the decline of your business: 5 tips from an employment lawyer
  • Engaging developers: a guide
  • Snow, Parties and Bonuses: It’s Christmas in HR
  • Landmark equal pay claim decided: are the floodgates now open?
  • Top 6 common issues faced by employers
  • Top 5 Looney Laws (or things to make you go “Huh”?)
  • Got employees? Reasons to sign on the dotted line…
  • Legal fees in the Employment Tribunal: a quick guide
  • Sporting events: make sure it’s fun and games for your staff
  • Removing unwanted employees: Is this the solution?
  • Compensated no-fault dismissals: removing employment red tape for small business?
  • Writing a CV: a little white lie can’t hurt anybody, or can it?
  • 65 and too young to retire? Supreme Court clarifies the law
  • Not long now! Prepare for employee absences caused by the “Summer of Sport”
  • Qualifying period for unfair dismissal rights increases to 2 years next month
  • Newsflash: Waterfront welcomes Anthony Purvis
• Category: Intellectual Property
  • Adapting to AI: can UK copyright law cope?
  • The Court of Appeal is ‘Sure’ about likelihood of confusion
  • Judgment handed down in Athleisure trade mark claim brought by Athleta (ITM) Inc., a subsidiary of Gap, Inc.
  • Waterfront’s IP team is recognised again in the prestigious Chambers and Partner 2025 Guide
  • Mumsnet v Open AI – what to expect from the first British legal action of its kind.
  • Waterfront’s IP Team Highly-Ranked in Prestigious Legal 500 Directory
  • Can employees and directors be sued individually for intellectual property infringement in addition to their employer?
  • Mumsnet becomes the first organisation to take legal action against OpenAI in the UK
  • The 2024 edition of international guide – ‘The Legal 500’ ranks Waterfront’s Intellectual Property as ‘elite’
  • Putin trade mark application a step too far for EUIPO
  • Twitter’s “IP Claims” Against Threads
  • Waterfront trade mark lawyers recognised again in World Trademark Review 1000
  • Copyright claim against John Lewis’ Christmas Advert goes up in smoke
  • Bitcoin file format held not to merit copyright protection
  • ChatGPT – can the AI generated content output be protected by copyright in the UK?
  • Own goal in NFT trade mark infringement case
  • Waterfront and a trio of its solicitors earn prestigious rankings in the 2023 Chambers legal guide
  • The Legal 500 international guide ranks Waterfront as among the very best law firms
  • IPEC cost recovery increases to £60,000
  • Waterfront Law – The IPEC Guide
  • Waterfront’s Maria-Elena Cacace details the dangers and legal issues associated with counterfeit cosmetics
  • Matthew Harris’ career is featured in The Law Society Gazette
  • Four Tet and the benefits of IPEC
  • Matthew Harris gives his 500th Judgment in a domain name case
  • EA SPORTS…it’s in the name.
  • Matthew Harris contributes to new book assessing 25 years of EU trade mark practice
  • Swipe left – Match.com defeats Muzmatch
  • Trade Mark Lawyer Update: GNAT and Company Ltd & Anor v West Lake East Ltd & Anor [2022] EWHC 319 (IPEC)
  • Waterfront’s Matthew Harris explains the legal difficulties surrounding counterfeit goods for the Mail on Sunday
  • IP Precautions Part One: Trade Mark Clearance Searches
  • ¡AI Curumba! – AI Cannot be an Inventor
  • Tiara Tries to Take-Down Facebook
  • Who’s Who Legal ranks Waterfront’s Piers Strickland as “Global Leader”
  • Paparazzi Problems
  • Two 2021 IP Stars announced at Waterfront
  • Brexit: The Impact on Unregistered Community Design Rights
  • Waterfront to present legal and investment workshops for South Bank Innovation
  • We need to talk about Cuthbert
  • Piers Strickland addresses intellectual property rights in speech at the Think Global conference
  • Waterfront are named in the World Trademark Review 1000
  • Brexit update: UKIPO changes rules on address for service
  • Pimlico Plumbers – Vaccine Clause
  • Waterfront Solicitors features in SME magazine discussing the options facing SMEs when big companies infringe on their trademark
  • Launch of Blockchain Legal & Regulatory Guidance
  • Three Albions United – but can you trade mark a footballing suffix?
  • Government issues guidance on “responsible contractual behaviour in the performance and enforcement of contracts impacted by the Covid-19 emergency”
  • Litigation, Intellectual Property and COVID-19
  • Welcome to the team
  • Is changing your name by deed poll a complete answer to trade mark infringement?
  • Waterfront IP Team lauded once again in World Trademark Review
  • The last UK reference to the CJEU before Brexit?
  • ‘Fortnite’ and Copyright Infringement
  • ‘WhoIs’ the Infringer? Tracking down a domain registrant in a post-GDPR world.
  • EU Copyright Directive
  • Waterfront Partner added to Supervising Solicitors’ List
  • Waterfront partner co-authors book on IP Enforcement across EU Member States
  • Intellectual property law team lauded in the World Trademark Review
  • Waterfront secures victory for GAT in defending multimillion dollar claim of Rotam
  • For Nando’s and Fernando’s: independent restaurant accused of trade mark infringement
  • Non-league football club told to stop using their name and initials
  • Matthew Harris recommended as trade mark expert in WTR 1000
  • Share John Lewis Christmas advert accused of plagiarism by children’s author
  • Waterfront Partner Decision prompts calls for UK review of Domain Name law
  • Legal 500 results announced for IT & Telecoms & Intellectual Property
  • Europol seeks to raise awareness of ‘Intellectual Property Crime on the Darknet’
  • Void Share Buybacks, Private Companies: consequences and practical points
  • Trade Mark Law Update: Grey Market Goods
  • The Premier League renews its battle with illegal streaming
  • Trade Mark Law Update – the pitfalls of using someone else’s trade mark
  • WIPO publishes Jurisprudential Overview 3.0 – including over 20 decisions made by Matthew Harris
  • Apple not Smart Enough in Smartwatch Wars
  • ‘Unjustified threats’ protection comes a step closer – Intellectual Property Bill ready to receive Royal Assent
  • It’s feeling chilly: Iceland V Iceland
  • Robots and the law – AI developments and the question of ethics and best practice
  • Piers Strickland on BBC News at Ten & 5live radio. Can The Great British Bake Off format be replicated?
  • Claims against the Trump family remind us why protecting your IP is important.
  • Waterfront ranked in the Legal 500 for IT & Telecoms & Intellectual Property
  • Waterfront outrun the competition at Great Team Relay race.
  • Waterfront joins firmament of IP Stars
  • Matthew Harris interviewed by Bloomberg BNA
  • Get up, stand up, stand up for your (intellectual property) rights
  • Chambers & Partners 2016 recognises Waterfront’s intellectual property and corporate expertise
  • Legal 500 calls Waterfront ‘first-rate’
  • It’s emazing! 300 Not Out
  • Waterfront gets summary judgment in relation to Lily Allen song
  • Move Over Usain Bolt – Waterfront Hits the Olympic Track
  • Copyright Lawyer: IPEC Update
  • SKY v SKYPE: Are you confused?
  • Patent Lawyer April 2015 Update: IPEC finds mailer patent invalid
  • Trade Mark Lawyer Update – Scramble!
  • Waterfront victory for Vertical Leisure in IPEC Domain Name passing off case.
  • Blurred Lines in Copyright Law?
  • A Swift way to comprehensive trademark protection?
  • Trade Mark Lawyer Update
  • Win for Waterfront Advocate in Trade Mark Case
  • Third Time Lucky: “Unreasonable behaviour” in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC)
  • January 2015 Copyright Update
  • A Licence to Snoop?
  • Matthew Harris issues decision in Guardian News & v. Yoyo.email
  • Counterfeiting in China: Waterfront’s Matthew Harris is Interviewed on the BBC World Service
  • Waterfront retains ranking in Chambers UK 2015
  • The Great British Bake Off – the ingredients of a lucrative TV format
  • Waterfront Solicitors retains Legal 500 rankings
  • In the eye of the beholder: the beauty of Apple’s Store Layout Trade Mark
  • Waterfront and Matthew Harris in top legal directory, Chambers UK 2014
  • Congratulations to Dot London
  • Clarification, simplification and extra protection…what the Intellectual Property Act 2014 means for your business.
  • Idiots assemble? or the beginning of the break down before copyright law is corrected?
  • WIPO names Matthew Harris as domain name Trademark Post Delegation Dispute Resolution Expert
  • The Defamation Act 2013 who will it affect?
  • Who cares about software patent protection in the US? Answer: we all should
  • Christmas came early for Sir Cliff Richard – Copyright has been extended!
  • Waterfront review of the year 2013
  • Waterfront & Matthew Harris in legal directory Chambers UK 2014
  • A New Law for Intellectual Property
  • Waterfront calls for domain name panelists to pick up gauntlet of True Religion
  • SHARK and MONSTER: battle of the beasts
  • Legal 500 success
  • Happy startup legal toolkit launched
  • Never too small to fight: effective early enforcement of intellectual property
  • Waterfront in World Intellectual Property Review
  • Waterfront launches LawBox:tech
  • Matthew Harris appointed to Law Society’s Intellectual Property Working Party
  • Know Your App Rights!
  • When The Postman Doesn’t Ring Twice
  • Running a Photography Business: THE LEGAL ESSENTIALS
  • Dark and Stormy: potential problems for cloud users…
  • EMI and Starbucks gets frothy over their NOW trade marks
  • News: INTA decides to profile ‘beer swilling’ Waterfront partner
  • News: Waterfront Success for Client
  • The Last ACT(A)…? Three themes from our EU/US debate
  • Our Tweet Debate on ACTA is drawing closer…
  • News: ‘Can-Do’ Waterfront Listed in The Legal 500 2012
  • Much Ado About ACTA
  • Top 5 Looney Laws (or things to make you go “Huh”?)
  • The “Opening” of the Games?
  • Costs and Offers to Settle
  • Trade Marks: A valuable business asset
  • Using Trade Mark Symbols: “I know my rights, and I’m not afraid to use them!”
  • Reasons to Register your Trade Mark… You can register your trade mark in more than one jurisdiction
  • Waterfront succeeds in patent invalidity claim for Ningbo Wentai Sports Equipment Co.
  • Reasons to Register your Trade Mark… the Exclusive Right to use your Mark
  • IP World Twevent – News just in on Westwood v Knight!
  • IP Day Twevent – Sir James Dyson, Visionary Innovator
  • IP Day Twevent – Dame Vivienne Westwood, Visionary Innovator
  • What will the Olympic Commission do if you infringe their Olympic Trade Marks?
  • Who can use the Olympic Trade Marks?
  • Trade mark issues affecting the London 2012 Olympic Games
  • What legal protection do those Olympic Trade Marks have?
  • Not in my domain!
  • The importance of trade mark clearance searches
  • Newsflash: Waterfront named in The Legal 500
  • Newsflash: Star Wars IV: A New Hope for Intellectual Property Infringements
  • Newsflash: Partner achieves significant patent litigation success with important freedom of information implications
  • Newsflash: Waterfront Partner Matthew Harris has two UDRP decisions listed as part of 2010’s ‘Top Ten’
  • Newsflash: Waterfront Successfully Obtains Intervention Status For INTA In ECJ Trade Mark Proceedings
• Category: Privacy / Data Protection
  • First fine imposed against a data processor – what does this mean for processors?
  • Data breaches: Is personal data held in your systems secure?
  • European Commission launches process on personal data flows to UK
  • Confidentiality and security are as relevant at home as they are at the office
  • Will Google v Lloyd decision increase an organisation’s exposure to representative action for breaches of data protection laws?
  • SAR you ready? The timescale for data subject requests just got shorter
  • Proposed £183 million fine for British Airways – what does it mean for you?
  • Data protection – Preparing for Brexit
  • GDPR – THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
  • General Data Protection Regulation, what’s all the fuss about?
  • The Digital Economy Bill & Age Verification: a reminder of information security
  • Safe Harbor Update: What you need to do NOW
  • Anonymising Personal Data
  • Safe Harbour – Not So Safe Anymore
  • Ashley Madison Hack: Reducing Cyber Risk
  • The Computer Misuse Act – a new era
  • So hot right now… wearable technology
  • Cloud computing: a licence to work from home?
  • Reigning in the cloud
  • The strictly, absolutely, unequivocally, completely and utterly necessary, cookies
  • Website Terms: Ticking all the right boxes.
  • UK Cookie Law: Practical advice on how NOT to comply
  • Waterfront Partner Perversity Shocker!
• Category: Topic 1
  • Waterfront’s Anthony Purvis comments to The i on workplace bullying following Dominic Raab’s resignation
• Category: Waterfront Law
  • Waterfront advises Exate Technology Limited (“eXate”) on an investment in the company.
  • Waterfront to introduce shorter working hours on Fridays this summer
  • Waterfront Law launches new branding and website
  • Waterfront and three of its solicitors are ranked in the 2022 Chambers and Partners UK Legal Guide
  • The Legal 500 ranks Waterfront and its solicitors
  • Waterfront advises Faredirect on its acquisition by FLYR Labs
  • Post-Covid return to work issues analysed and discussed at Waterfront’s seminar
  • Waterfront advises Cubica and Q6 on their recent acquisition by Chemring Group PLC
  • Waterfront appoints three new associates
  • Waterfront advises global tech communications consultancy Hotwire on latest acquisition
  • Waterfront advises Hack The Box on $10.6 million Series A investment round
  • Waterfront advises property news website React News on their acquisition by Green Street
  • Waterfront advises Exate Technology Limited (“eXate”) on an investment in the company.
  • Waterfront advises the shareholders of Anana on their exit to Sabio Limited
  • Waterfront advise Plandek on its $3.3 million equity investment in the company.
  • Waterfront advises Workable in relation to a number of growth capital investments totalling $50 million
  • Our new domain name: www.waterfront.law
  • Waterfront advises Reputation UK Limited (“Reputation Institute”)

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• Andrew Gordon

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