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Will cross-border injunctions become the norm in European patent litigation?

European courts have taken different approaches to cross-border injunctions in patent cases for many years, despite the harmonising jurisdictional influence of the Brussels and Lugano Conventions and…

Author(s): Eva Acker, Corin Gittinger, Allard van Duijn

Getty v Stability AI – Green light given for representative action under CPR 19.3

The High Court has now ordered that Getty Images (Getty) may pursue its claim against Stability AI (Stability) as a representative action on behalf of individuals who were a party to specified…

Author(s): Emma Probyn, Christine Simpson, Phoebe Campbell, Dr. Christopher Stothers, Alexandra Morgan

  • ai
  • intellectual property
  • litigation

Data Act: Commission issues updated FAQ

To aid in the implementation of the EU Data Act, the European Commission has released a set of frequently asked questions (FAQ). For a concise overview of these FAQs, refer to our previous blog post.…

Author(s): Gernot Fritz, Estella Dannhausen

  • consumer
  • data
  • data protection
  • eu data act
  • europe
  • internet of things
  • manufacturing
  • eu digital strategy
  • regulatory
  • regulatory framework
  • tech media and telecoms

Lights, Cameras, AI Action

Energised by our attendance at the recent Tortoise Responsible AI Forum, Paris AI Action Summit and City & Financial AI Regulation Summit, the international Freshfields AI team looks at five key…

Author(s): Rachael Annear, Beth George, Natasha Good, Giles Pratt, Laéna Bouafy

  • africa
  • ai
  • americas
  • asia-pacific
  • data
  • eu ai act
  • europe
  • innovation
  • tech media and telecoms
  • us
  • political change

The Responsible AI Forum 2025: Companies are facing growing regulatory and litigation risks over the use of AI, and not just from the new laws grabbing the headlines

Freshfields is a Knowledge Partner on the Responsible AI Forum 2025, hosted at Spencer House by Tortoise Media, in partnership with the Rothschild Foundation. The Responsible AI Forum sets out an…

Author(s): Giles Pratt

  • ai
  • asia-pacific
  • data
  • eu ai act
  • europe
  • intellectual property
  • us
  • political change

EDPB Opinion: Accountability of controllers in data processing chains

In today’s digital landscape, organisations heavily rely on third-party service providers for processing personal data. These service providers, e.g. cloud service or software providers, often engage…

Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Philipp Roos, John-Markus Maddaloni

  • data protection
  • gdpr
  • europe

German Election #2: Digital Policies in the 2025 Election Campaign – How Germany’s Political Parties Want Germany to Catch Up on Digitalisation

On 23 February 2025, almost 60 million German voters will elect a new federal parliament in snap elections after the collapse of the governing coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats…

Author(s): Alex Schmidtke

  • 2024 elections
  • ai
  • cyber security
  • data
  • data protection
  • eu ai act
  • eu cyber resilience act
  • eu data act
  • eu data governance act
  • eu digital markets act
  • eu digital strategy
  • eu nis2 directive
  • political change
  • europe

EU AI Act unpacked #21: The AI Act starts biting – AI literacy and prohibited practices rules now in effect

The first substantive parts of the EU’s AI Act are now binding on businesses in the EU – and beyond.  Although most of the new law’s obligations will start to come into effect on 2 August 2026, the…

Author(s): Lutz Riede, Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Mark Egeler, Verena Kirchmair, Sam Kloosterboer, Julia Utzerath

  • ai
  • eu ai act
  • eu ai act series
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