As a legal tech community, 2018 saw an increase in numbers, interest, events as well as legal instruments.
Below is a glimpse of our top three.
Data Protection
Data Protection and Privacy was at the helm of our conversations as
Our Legal Hackers Global team was featured on Forbes in an article penned by Valentin Pivovarov, a Contributor on Forbes who writes about legal tech and how it is changing access to justice. He is also an Organizer of
It has been announced in the local dailies that the body responsible for granting all rights in Industrial Property including Trademarks, The Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI) has issued a Certificate of Trademark Registration to the former President for the
The Supreme Court in the United States of America declined to hear challenges to net neutrality regulations adopted in 2015 by the Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration.
The superior court upheld the decision made by a federal appeals court
A hearing on the extent of the right to be de-indexed opened on September 10, 2018, in the European Court of Justice (ECJ), following the referral by the French Council of State in July 2017 of questions regarding a case
On September 13, 2018, the German Federal Court of Justice referred a case over whether YouTube can be held as liable for hosting copyright-infringing videos to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
In 2015, a lower German court ruled that
On September 12, 2018, the European Parliament approved amendments to the Copyright Directive, and voted to begin negotiations between with the European Commission and EU Council.
The vote came after the Parliament rejected a first version of the Directive on
A patent suit between IBM and Groupon that has been underway for over two years has finally been settled.
IBM sued Groupon alleging violation of four of its duly protected patents.
The two companies announced that Groupon will pay IBM
Our NBO Legal Hackers team was at the Hiil Innovating Justice Conference hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) in Nairobi.
The Nairobi Innovating Justice Conference is one of six global
Our team at NBO Legal Hackers will be attending the fifth edition of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica).
The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) in partnership with the Media Foundation West Africa
