Toby Bond

Jun 13, 2024 | lexology.com | Simon Hembt |Toby Bond |Elizabeth Dunn |Callum Granger

It is no secret that the gambling industry is undergoing a period of prolonged and unprecedented regulatory change, with a combination of previously unregulated or restricted territories introducing domestic point of consumption regulation, and those pre-existing regulated territories increasingly implementing new requirements, standard and restrictions.

May 23, 2024 | lexology.com | Mikkel Taanum |Pia Ek |Maria Karpathakis |Simon Hembt |Georgina Parkinson |Manuela Cox | +8 more

Bird & Bird’s International Gambling Group were delighted to host our inaugural online Global Gambling webinar on 8 May 2024. Over the course of the morning, specialists from across our international offices delivered sessions on some of the key issues shaping the industry including the UK White Paper, international regulatory updates, mass consumer claims, tax, AI and much more.

Dec 20, 2023 | lexology.com | Toby Bond

In a landmark decision the UK Supreme Court ruled this morning that the UK Patents Act 1977 requires an inventor to be a natural person and an AI system cannot be named an inventor. The judgment emphasises that whether inventions made without a human inventor ought to be patentable in future is a matter of policy which would need to be addressed through legislation. What has the Supreme Court decided?