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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Most of us were thrilled to see the calendar turn to 2021 on January 1, closing the chapter on what was an extremely challenging year around the globe. Now that we are a month into the new year, and the fireworks have faded and the noisemakers are packed away, we take a moment to highlight a few notable developments in the IP world that made a somewhat quieter entrance on the scene when the clock struck midnight. Brexit Clones: As of ...

Government to set up building products watchdog The government has unveiled plans for a new national regulator of construction products and materials The new body will be formed within the Office for Product Safety and Standards, which will be handed £10 million to establish its new function. Advertisement The regulator will have the power to remove any product from the market if it presents a safety risk and can prosecute companies who ‘flout the rules’ on product safety. It will also be ...

Despite Brexit agreement, managers still face issues Leonard Ng While Brexit is operationally becoming a smaller risk for managers that have now largely secured permissions for their companies to operate in the European Union, they say challenges remain. Leonard Ng, partner at law firm Sidley Austin LLP in London, said the Dec. 24 agreement of a trade deal between the EU and the U.K. does not mean that U.K.-based firms are getting financial services equivalence. Equivalence permits U.K.-based f...

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Read later Summary: Brexit means its time to move UK user data to the US and away from the EUs GDPR regime... (Pixabay) While Brexit negotiations lurch on and questions of post 1 January data adequacy provisions are still up in the air, Facebook has seized the chance to shake off a bit of regulatory rigor by confirming that it will move oversight of data belonging to UK users to the US. That means that the firm will take advantage of the UK no longer falling under the European Union’s data p...

While Brexit negotiations rumble on, important decisions about Covid still have to be made. Next week, the government will review the tier system and decide whether the localised restrictions need to be eased or tightened. Katy Balls speaks to James Forsyth about what might change.