1/21/2025 1:39:26 PM Thatchers Cider successful in lookalike appeal By Huw Cookson Alexia Meade Ruth Hoy In a judgment handed down yesterday, the Court of Appeal (CoA) found that Thatchers' "cloudy lemon cider" trade mark had been infringed...
12/23/2024 11:14:23 AM ASA Rulings Summary 4 - 11 December 2024 - shock strategies, objectifying fashion ads, youth radio & cinema and Black Friday bandits By Emma Heron Alexia Meade Hannah Potter Filip Badina +1 more... Show less In the last two weeks we have seen the ASA: (i) remind businesses of the risks associated with ‘shockvertising’, (ii) revisit its rules...
12/23/2024 11:14:16 AM ASA Rulings Summary, 20-27 November 2024 - green turbulence, the Virgin Mary and the ASA's gold standard By Alexia Meade Filip Badina Emma Heron Hannah Potter +1 more... Show less In the last two weeks we have seen the ASA: (i) remind advertisers of the rules surrounding comparative green claims; (ii) rule against...
12/23/2024 11:14:09 AM ASA Rulings Summary, 13 November 2024 -investment tipples and risqué posters By Emma Heron Alexia Meade Hannah Potter In recent rulings we have seen the ASA: (i) issue multiple rulings on the advertising of unregulated investments and (ii) reinforce its...
11/25/2024 4:28:11 PM EU design law is changing. Will the UK follow suit? By Huw Cookson Elena Varese On 18 November 2024, the EU published Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 and Directive (EU) 2024/2823, following its proposal to revise the...
11/25/2024 12:04:06 AM Australia: In-Store Facial Recognition Tech Breached Privacy Act By Sarah Birkett Alexandra Moore “Ethically challenging” and “the most intrusive option” – these are some of the words Australia’s Privacy Commissioner used to describe...
11/7/2024 9:33:58 AM ASA Rulings Summary, 2 - 9 October 2024 - winter warmers' woes, logo no-goes and HFSS hard lines By Emma Heron Alexia Meade Hannah Potter In October we saw the ASA: (i) remind businesses they can't charge consumers for things advertised as free, (ii) highlight the importance...
10/29/2024 5:04:08 PM ASA Rulings Summary, 9 - 16 October 2024 - Mid-contract price increases, affiliate marketing saga continues, drink driving and dating app disasters By Emma Heron Hannah Potter Filip Badina In the last few weeks, we have seen the ASA: (i) target mid-contract price increases, (ii) clamp down on affiliate marketing practices...
10/29/2024 2:00:03 AM Upcycling in fashion: trade marks and exhaustion of rights By Huw Cookson Valentina Mazza Liam Blackford In the fashion and apparel industry, ‘upcycling’ denotes the process by which garments, accessories, bags and fabrics already put on the...
10/22/2024 11:25:09 AM Navigating the Data Act: What consumer goods organisations need to know about "smart" products By Sophie Lessar Linzi Penman What's New? The EU Data Act introduces design obligations for smart products, data-sharing requirements and mandatory contractual...
9/24/2024 10:11:30 AM How Technological Disruption is Shaping the Future of CGFR Organisations By Chloe Forster Chris Rennie This year, our DLA Piper Tech Index is global, and captures the views of an even wider cross section of organisations working in the...
9/18/2024 2:15:17 AM ANZ Food Law Updates By Sophie Edgerton Jessie Buchan Hazel Pang Proposed Changes to the Definition of "Genetically-Modified" under the FSANZ Code (Proposal P1055) Food Standards Australia New Zealand...
9/17/2024 9:19:19 AM Shrinkflation By Veronika Appl Shrinkflation is a phenomenon where products are reduced in size or quantity while maintaining the same price. The practice is often used...
9/2/2024 1:23:04 PM Retail Reimagined: the influence of GenAI By Suman Khurana Imran Syed Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Generative AI (GenAI) in particular, is steadily bringing about change in all sectors. The retail...
8/22/2024 8:53:41 AM Negotiators short on time to wrap up a global plastics treaty By George Gigounas Jesse Medlong Amanda McCaffrey In 2015, the Paris Agreement provided a critical signal of the political will behind global climate action. Now, United Nations members...
8/9/2024 4:00:12 PM ASA rulings summary, July 2024 - are ads expected in paid streaming subscriptions? gambling ad allowed near(ish) to school and misleading images By Hannah Potter Georgina Doukanaris Alexander Ioannides This month the ASA has made some helpful rulings around (a) whether streaming services need to disclose the presence of paid ads up front...