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October 21-23
Mark Brennan will be leading a panel at the virtual Fall Academy 2020 Privacy + Security Forum, where he will be joined by other seasoned experts for deep-dive sessions with
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Partner Trey Hanbury interviews T-Mobile’s Steve Sharkey
Hogan Lovells partner Trey Hanbury enjoyed a lively and frank conversation with Steve Sharkey, Vice President of Government Affairs, Engineering and Technology Policy at T-Mobile as part of the 2020 INCOMPAS Show. The interview covered T-Mobile’s running start on 5G
Webinar – IoT in the EU: Lessons from COVID-19, and next steps for liability and regulation
Connected products remain in focus during 2020. Now more than ever before, they bring new opportunities to our homes, work, travel, and health care.
Date: 15 September 3:30-4:15 BST
In this webinar our leading cross-border products law team discuss the
UK Government calls for feedback on regulation of IoT device security
Following the UK Government’s announcement in January 2020 that it would be moving forwards with regulation on consumer IoT device security, the Government has now published its legislative proposals and is seeking feedback from interested parties by 6 September 2020.
UK regulator publishes consultation on video-sharing platform regulation
On Friday 16 July 2020, the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, published a consultation on video-sharing platform regulation, calling for views by 24 September 2020. The UK government intends to introduce a new statutory framework this Autumn to implement the revised
Consumer IoT – European Commission initiates inquiry into the consumer Internet of Things sector
The European Commission (“Commission”) has launched an antitrust sector inquiry into the Internet of Things (“IoT”) sector for consumer-related products and services within the European Union. The Commission is looking to develop a better understanding of how this fast-moving sector
U.S. Supreme Court Finds TCPA’s Federal-Debts Exemption Unconstitutional; Leaves Rest of TCPA Intact
Supreme Court held that the TCPA’s federal-debts exemption is a content-based law that violated the First Amendment and severed the exemption from the TCPA.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects categorical rule that generic term plus “.com” results in a generic composite
The United States Supreme Court holds that adding a top-level domain, like “.com”, to an otherwise generic term does not automatically result in a generic composite, and that a genericness determination must consider the significance of the term to consumers.
