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Webinar: Data protection in the Middle East and Africa feat. Nigerian Data Protection Commissioner

The "new normal" of global data protection regulation is becoming increasingly complex. With 37 African countries having a comprehensive data protection legal framework and the...

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The Data Chronicles: Data protection in Africa

Welcome to Hogan Lovells’ The Data Chronicles, brought to you by the firm’s global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice. This multimedia series is dedicated to the ever-changing...

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Key changes brought by the Nigerian Data Protection Act, 2023

Four years after the adoption of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR), the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 (NDPA) was passed into law in June 2023.This article reviews the main ...

Published Works

UDRP: evidence of bad faith should not be cryptic World Trademark Review

The complainants, which owned registrations for KADDEX in numerous jurisdictions, sought the transfer of ‘kaddex.com’ under the UDRP. The panel found that it was clear that the...

Insights and Analysis

France: Protecting a website from unlawful data scraping

Data scraping, also referred to as web scraping, data harvesting or data extraction, is a technique for extracting content from a website, local machine or a database. Data scraping is...

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Recent developments in African data protection laws – Outlook for 2023

Africa is continuing to strengthen its data protection legal and regulatory framework. To date, thirty six out of fifty four African countries have data protection laws and/or regulations....

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Unsubstantiated chain of events for cycling company in UDRP case World Trademark Review

In a recent decision under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before WIPO, a three-member panel has refused to transfer the domain name ‘protanium.com’,...

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Finally some clarity? CJEU declares Art. 17 DSM-Directive to be in line with fundamental rights

Is Art. 17 DSM Directive compatible with EU fundamental rights? Today, the CJEU has given the answer, in one of the most awaited rulings of the year: yes – because of the...

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Liquid rubber doesn’t guarantee a watertight case World Trademark Review

In a recent decision under the Terms and Conditions of Registration of ‘.se’ Domain Names (the ‘.se’ Policy) before WIPO, a ‘.se’ arbitrator has declined ...

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