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Washington D.C. Minimum Wage Set to Increase Again on July 1, 2019

By William P. Flanagan on June 18, 2019

Effective July 1, 2019, the District of Columbia minimum wage will increase to $14.00 per hour, from the current $13.25 per hour. The new rate will apply to all employers, regardless of size. The upcoming increase to the minimum wage is part of a series of increases that began with the passage of the District’s “Fair Shot Minimum Wage Amendment Act of 2016.” The rate will increase again to $15.00 per hour on July 1,…

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The Cathay Pacific Breach: Is Data Protection and Cyber Security Law in Hong Kong About to Receive an Upgrade?

By Mark Parsons, Mark Lin & Byron Phillips on June 18, 2019

Background On 6 June, 2019, the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (the “PCPD“) issued an enforcement notice against Cathay Pacific Airways (and its affiliate Hong Kong Dragon Airlines) (together, “Cathay Pacific“) in respect of a data breach concerning unauthorized access to the personal data of some 9.4 million Cathay Pacific customers.…

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Amsterdam: Seminar ‘Protect Your Data!’ – 2 July 2019

By Joke Bodewits & Ruud van der Velden on June 17, 2019

Data forms the cornerstone of the current economy. Being in control of you data is key. Last year, the GDPR and the EU Trade Secrets Directive created the legal framework for the protection of the most important data in a company: personal data and trade secrets. Following the recent successful edition in Dutch, our Amsterdam office will host the seminar ‘Protect Your Data!’ in English on Tuesday 2 July 2019. Joke Bodewits and Ruud van der Velden…

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France – Trade secrets protection optimized with new procedural measures before Courts

By Stanislas Roux-Valliard & Julie Gemptel on June 14, 2019

The FRAND patent litigation case between Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL and LG Electronics Inc. and LG Electronics France offers a first and exemplary illustration of an extensive use of the procedural arrangements provided by the French Law of July 30, 2018 regarding the protection of trade secrets. The Paris Court of Appeal recently handed down the first decision on the merits implementing the new provisions transposing the European Union Directive. Besides defining the trade secret…

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Webinar Invitation — Operationalizing the California Consumer Privacy Act

By HL Chronicle of Data Protection on June 14, 2019

Please join the Hogan Lovells Privacy and Cybersecurity team and LexisNexis on June 19 for the webinar, Operationalizing the California Consumer Privacy Act – Key Decisions and Compliance Strategies. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) has been described as groundbreaking, watershed, and unprecedented since its passage on June 28, 2018. As the first broad-based state law on consumers’ personal data in the U.S., this important legislation does indeed pose significant compliance challenges for organizations that engage with residents…

Global Media and Communications Watch

China’s first Data Protection Measures lifting its veils

By Andrew McGinty on June 14, 2019

On May 28, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China released the draft Measures on the Administration of Data Security (“Data Security Measures“, see our in-house English translation here) for public consultation. These Data Security Measures will be a great leap forward in China’s current data protection landscape, which mainly consists of scattered provisions contained in various pieces of legislations and standards, such as the Cyber Security Law, the E-Commerce Law, the Consumer Rights Protection…

Global Media and Communications Watch

Internet of Things – A Fast Forward to the Future

By Winston Maxwell & Estelle-Marguerite Devisme on June 14, 2019

On Monday, April 29th 2019, policy makers and industry representatives from different IoT ‘verticals’ (agriculture, automotive, health, energy, aerospace) gathered in Brussels at the initiative of Vodafone to launch a conversation about the future policies applicable to the Internet of Things (IoT) in Europe. Global Players Require Global Regulation The debate emphasized how global any approach to IoT regulation should be. All participants agreed that Europe should and must be competitive on the IoT market…

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CJEU draws the (dotted) line on subject matter in figurative/position marks

By Vito Pati & Imogen Fowler on June 14, 2019

Judgment of 6 June 2019 in Case C-223/18 P Deichmann v EUIPO – Munich The Court of Justice (CJEU) upholds the General Court (GC) finding that for a figurative mark featuring elements represented using dotted lines (in essence, a position mark), these elements can be excluded from the subject-matter of the sign. The CJEU finds, in essence, that although the subject matter of a mark is defined by the representation, the best approach is to…

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German withholding taxes in “total buy-out” IP agreements

By Mathias Schönhaus on June 14, 2019

In a recently published decision, the German Federal Tax Court (Bundesfinanzhof, BFH) clarified for the first time that a remuneration for the complete transfer of rights in the context of a “total buy out” against a one-off flat-rate remuneration by a foreign rights holder can trigger a deduction obligation for taxes on the part of the domestic contracting party. In the underlying case, a domestic media company concluded a total buy-out agreement with a freelance…

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Transfers on Trial: Privacy Shield and Standard Contractual Clauses go before the European Courts

By Paul Maynard on June 13, 2019

July is set to be a busy month in Luxembourg. On the first and second of the month, the General Court of the European Union (which is part of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)) will hear a case against the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield brought by three French NGOs, La Quadrature du Net, French Data Network and Fédération FDN. A week later, on 9 July, the CJEU will hear arguments in Schrems…

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Washington D.C. Minimum Wage Set to Increase Again on July 1, 2019

The Cathay Pacific Breach: Is Data Protection and Cyber Security Law in Hong Kong About to Receive an Upgrade?

Amsterdam: Seminar ‘Protect Your Data!’ – 2 July 2019

France – Trade secrets protection optimized with new procedural measures before Courts

Webinar Invitation — Operationalizing the California Consumer Privacy Act

China’s first Data Protection Measures lifting its veils

Internet of Things – A Fast Forward to the Future

CJEU draws the (dotted) line on subject matter in figurative/position marks

German withholding taxes in “total buy-out” IP agreements

Transfers on Trial: Privacy Shield and Standard Contractual Clauses go before the European Courts

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