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Will cross-border injunctions become the norm in European patent litigation?

European courts have taken different approaches to cross-border injunctions in patent cases for many years, despite the harmonising jurisdictional influence of the Brussels and Lugano Conventions and…

Author(s): Eva Acker, Corin Gittinger, Allard van Duijn

Getty v Stability AI – Green light given for representative action under CPR 19.3

The High Court has now ordered that Getty Images (Getty) may pursue its claim against Stability AI (Stability) as a representative action on behalf of individuals who were a party to specified…

Author(s): Emma Probyn, Christine Simpson, Phoebe Campbell, Dr. Christopher Stothers, Alexandra Morgan

  • ai
  • intellectual property
  • litigation

Data Act: Commission issues updated FAQ

To aid in the implementation of the EU Data Act, the European Commission has released a set of frequently asked questions (FAQ). For a concise overview of these FAQs, refer to our previous blog post.…

Author(s): Gernot Fritz, Estella Dannhausen

  • consumer
  • data
  • data protection
  • eu data act
  • europe
  • internet of things
  • manufacturing
  • eu digital strategy
  • regulatory
  • regulatory framework
  • tech media and telecoms

Lights, Cameras, AI Action

Energised by our attendance at the recent Tortoise Responsible AI Forum, Paris AI Action Summit and City & Financial AI Regulation Summit, the international Freshfields AI team looks at five key…

Author(s): Rachael Annear, Beth George, Natasha Good, Giles Pratt, Laéna Bouafy

  • africa
  • ai
  • americas
  • asia-pacific
  • data
  • eu ai act
  • europe
  • innovation
  • tech media and telecoms
  • us
  • political change

The Responsible AI Forum 2025: Companies are facing growing regulatory and litigation risks over the use of AI, and not just from the new laws grabbing the headlines

Freshfields is a Knowledge Partner on the Responsible AI Forum 2025, hosted at Spencer House by Tortoise Media, in partnership with the Rothschild Foundation. The Responsible AI Forum sets out an…

Author(s): Giles Pratt

  • ai
  • asia-pacific
  • data
  • eu ai act
  • europe
  • intellectual property
  • us
  • political change

EDPB Opinion: Accountability of controllers in data processing chains

In today’s digital landscape, organisations heavily rely on third-party service providers for processing personal data. These service providers, e.g. cloud service or software providers, often engage…

Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Philipp Roos, John-Markus Maddaloni

  • data protection
  • gdpr
  • europe

German Election #2: Digital Policies in the 2025 Election Campaign – How Germany’s Political Parties Want Germany to Catch Up on Digitalisation

On 23 February 2025, almost 60 million German voters will elect a new federal parliament in snap elections after the collapse of the governing coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats…

Author(s): Alex Schmidtke

  • 2024 elections
  • ai
  • cyber security
  • data
  • data protection
  • eu ai act
  • eu cyber resilience act
  • eu data act
  • eu data governance act
  • eu digital markets act
  • eu digital strategy
  • eu nis2 directive
  • political change
  • europe

EU AI Act unpacked #21: The AI Act starts biting – AI literacy and prohibited practices rules now in effect

The first substantive parts of the EU’s AI Act are now binding on businesses in the EU – and beyond.  Although most of the new law’s obligations will start to come into effect on 2 August 2026, the…

Author(s): Lutz Riede, Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Mark Egeler, Verena Kirchmair, Sam Kloosterboer, Julia Utzerath

  • ai
  • eu ai act
  • eu ai act series

Polish proposal on CSAM delays decisions on content scanning

Negotiations on the EU’s regulation to combat the dissemination of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online have been stalled in the Council for some time. Previous drafts proposed mandatory…

Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Elena Brandt, Max Grewe

  • data
  • europe
  • platforms
  • political change

Getty v Stability AI: Class definitions in representative claims under the lens

The High Court has rejected a proposed representative action brought by Thomas M. Barwick, Inc (Barwick), on behalf of c.50,000 photographers who have exclusively licensed their copyright works to…

Author(s): Dr. Christopher Stothers, Emma Probyn, Christine Simpson, Alexandra Morgan, Phoebe Campbell

  • ai
  • intellectual property
  • litigation

2025 Transnational Litigation Trends

Below is a link to our anticipated 2025 Trends in Transnational Litigation, which examines several pivotal developments poised to shape cross-border disputes in the year ahead. We delve into the…

Author(s): Timothy Harkness, Amella Viso, Taylor Jachman, Paloma Palmer

  • litigation
  • ai
  • data protection

10 Key MedTech Themes for 2025

Note: this article originally ran in MedCity News The MedTech industry is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. As AI reshapes the landscape, global collaborations are expanding, and the regulatory…

Author(s): Vinita Kailasanath, Shannon O'Hara

  • ai
  • antitrust and competition
  • cyber security
  • data
  • data protection
  • eu ai act
  • global
  • innovation
  • life sciences
  • mergers and acquisitions
  • regulatory framework
  • us

Life sciences – what to watch in 2025

We asked more than 200 Freshfields lawyers – across geographies and practice areas: what are the 1-2 issues top of mind for you and your clients going into 2025? Here are the ten topics most…

Author(s): Adam Golden, Kristen Riemenschneider, Madeleine Tavcar

  • 2024 elections
  • antitrust and competition
  • life sciences transactional
  • m&a
  • medtech
  • foreign investment
  • litigation
  • regulatory framework

EU AI Act unpacked #20: The AI Act and beyond – potential pitfalls for contracting on AI-powered products and services

The AI Act and beyond – potential pitfalls for contracting on AI-powered products and services [You can find all episodes of our EU AI Act unpacked blog series by clicking here.] Given the EU AI Act…

Author(s): Lutz Riede, Christoph Werkmeister, Theresa Ehlen, Philipp Roos, Christina Moellnitz, Anita Bell, Julia Utzerath

  • eu ai act
  • eu ai act series
  • eu digital strategy

AI Models, Chips, and Data Centers Targeted by Expansive US Export Control Rule

Key Takeaways BIS has imposed new global export licensing requirements on advanced computing integrated circuits and frontier AI model weights.  Corresponding mechanisms have also been put in place…

Author(s): Nabeel Yousef, Stephanie Brown Cripps, Noah Lipkowitz, Rebecca Berman, Young Park

  • ai

California Attorney General Issues Legal Advisories on AI Compliance with State Laws

On January 13, 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta released two legal advisories addressing how existing state laws apply to artificial intelligence (AI). “The fifth-largest economy in the…

Author(s): Beth George, Sean Quinn, Madeline Cimino

  • ai
  • compliance
  • data protection

Final agreement on the European Health Data Space: Cross-border access to EU health data

After long debates between the Commission, Parliament and the Council, the Council has adopted the regulation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS). Given the controverse debates around certain…

Author(s): Christoph Werkmeister, Philipp Roos, Estella Dannhausen

Preparing for Political Risk in 2025: Contempt, Coordination, and Congressional Investigations in 2025

The second Trump administration begins with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and a conservative Supreme Court majority. While attention is focused on what single-party control means…

Author(s): Andrew Dockham, Austin Evers, Beth George, Jessica Heller, Loren Terry

  • 2024 elections
  • investigations
  • compliance
  • cybersecurity
  • data protection
  • national security

Freshfields Fintech: Our Predictions for 2025

As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, we have crowdsourced predictions for the year ahead from the Freshfields global fintech team. Here, we identify common themes in 2025 across different…

Author(s): Cyrus Pocha, Claire Harrop, David Sewell, Emma Probyn, Rikki Haria, Daphne van der Houwen, Christine Simpson, Eva Schneider, Daniel Klingenbrunn, Nariné Atamian, Tristan Lockwood, Noah Schmidt

  • ai
  • aml
  • bnpl
  • cryptocurrency
  • data
  • financial crime
  • financial services
  • fintech
  • payments
  • political change
  • us
  • uk
  • europe

Digital Fairness Fitness Check and Digital Fairness Act Part 4: Social media commerce and influencer marketing

As part of our blog series on the EU Commission’s (EC) Digital Fairness Fitness Check and a potential new EU legislative proposal, the Digital Fairness Act, we took a closer look at ‘personalisation’…

Author(s): Tobias Timmann, Lutz Riede, Natalie Pettinger Kearney, Oliver Talhoff, Nicolai Fornoff, Sophie Misra, Marie-Christine Zeisberg

  • e-commerce
  • eu digital fairness series
  • eu digital strategy
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