An exchange rate glitch led to UA Denmark’s website advertising flights from Heathrow to Newark for $76. Thousands of travellers quickly booked, but would they be disappointed? Daisy Jones reports on the lessons for drafters of online sales terms and conditions.
No agreement was ever signed by Deepend, creator of the well-known “dude with a halo” brand, giving its client Fresh Trading the copyright. This led to Fresh losing its trade mark registration. But Fresh fought back and Abby Minns reports the result.
PR Aviation’s website aggregated low cost airline flight data so travellers could compare and book, paying a commission. Ryanair imposed conditions on use of its flight data. Could these be enforced if database right didn’t apply? Gemma Woodhead reports.
After 4 years helping MI design and manufacture endoscopy devices, Mr Eakins left and signed a confidentiality agreement, but still accessed MI’s customer and distributor databases and allegedly used these in a competing venture. Abby Minns reports on the litigation.
118 Data Resource Ltd licensed competitor IDS Data to make uses of 118’s customer database. They fell out and 118 exercised a right in the licence to audit IDS’s use of the data. Or so it thought. Ben Dunham reports.
