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The chaos produced by drone sightings at the UK's second busiest airport over the busy Christmas holiday season showed all too painfully why legal control of drones is needed...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has launched new standards setting out the requirements needed to develop digital health technologies for the NHS...

Planning for a no-deal Brexit is not easy, even where detailed UK Government and EU Commission guidance is available...

Last week the Supreme Court gave its decision in a long-running pharmaceutical patent dispute between Warner-Lambert and Generics...

A recent UK Court of Appeal ruling in a dispute between Unwired Planet and Huawei is shaking up the world of standards licensing...

The owner of an item embodying patented technology is allowed to have the item repaired, but if the repairing goes too far it can stray into “making” the item and infringe the patent...

Organisations that hold and process personal data have already had to contemplate the prospect of €20 million fines for not matching up to the requirements of the GDPR. Now the Court of Appeal has given a ruling that presents another type of exposure risk where personal data is concerned...

UK Government has announced £10m of support for fifteen projects that will help to frame the regulatory environment for the technologies of the future...

We learnt earlier this week that Government funding to the tune of £50m (with the possibility of a further £25m at a later stage) is coming to Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton, to fund part of the 5G Testbed and Trials Programme...

UK enforcement watchdog the Competition and Markets Authority is opening an investigation into whether social media stars are being open about paid-for endorsements...

The UK's Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 has become law. This new statute sets a framework for the next stages of road transport evolution, without attempting to address the longer term challenges of a driver-free future...

The big question raised by driverless vehicles is who will be liable for an accident when a vehicle is in control, as opposed to a human driver?...