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• Guidance note on skeleton arguments in English Patent Court proceedings - A recent decision from Joanna Smith J dealing with the costs of a withdrawn application in a case before the English Patents Court contains an important postscript and suggests that the rules in the Patents Court Guide regarding the lodging and filing of skeleton arguments need to be revisited.
• Stop Killing Games: European Citizen's Initiative seeks 1 million signatures to keep video games alive - As predicted in our previous?article on the Stop Killing Games ("SKG") petition earlier this year, the ?dissolution of Parliament ahead of the UK general election in July - which in turn scuppered gamers' hopes of accruing enough signatures to trigger Parliament's consideration of the SKG petition - was certainly not the last we would be hearing of the SKG campaign and its videogame preservation mission.?
• DMCC Act: CMA consults on updates to merger guidance - The CMA published a consultation on draft updates to six of its merger guidance documents.
• DMCC Act: investigating and monitoring digital markets - The DMCC Act introduces a digital markets competition regime giving the CMA a range of new powers in relation to firms with significant market status (SMS).
• Irides: Weekly patent litigation update - Read the latest edition of our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world.

• EU AI Act - ‘high risk’ AI, roles and requirements - In the first episode in this series on the EU AI Act - brought to you by The Roadmap team - we introduce some key elements of the Act we think all organisations need to be aware of.
• Protective Orders - In this episode of You, me and the UPC, Charlie French and Naomi Hazenberg are joined by Eden Winlow to discuss the regime for protecting trade secrets and other confidential information in the UPC.

• The Science Series - Join us for part two of our Science Series, designed specifically for in-house lawyers working within life sciences companies.
• Tech Summit 2024 - This year's summit will focus on exploring the most important legal and commercial issues facing the technology sector, along with other cutting-edge topics.