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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
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 exclusi...
Author(s): Emma Probyn, Christine Simpson, Phoebe Campbell, Dr. Christopher Stothers, Alexandra Morgan
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
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 theme...
Author(s): Rachael Annear, Beth George, Natasha Good, Giles Pratt, Laéna Bouafy
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 agen...
Author(s): Giles Pratt
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
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 (S...
Author(s): Alex Schmidtke
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 fi...
Author(s): Lutz Riede, Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Mark Egeler, Verena Kirchmair, Sam Kloosterboer, Julia Utzerath