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• Bristows launches enhanced gender-neutral parental leave - As part of our continued investment in our people, we are delighted to announce the upcoming launch of a new Universal Parental Leave policy, which will be effective as of 1 January 2025.
• Bristows shortlisted twice for Chambers UK Awards - We're pleased to have been shortlisted for both Intellectual Property team of the year and TMT team of the year at the inaugural Chambers UK Awards taking place in February 2025.

• Reasons to be cheerful: 4 takeaways from the BIA UK Life Sciences Regulatory Conference 2024 - We had an insightful day hearing about the future of UK life sciences regulation at the BIA’s flagship annual Life Sciences Regulatory Conference.
• First Draft General Purpose AI Code of Practice – the copyright bits - The European Commission has published the first draft of the General Purpose AI Code of Practice.
• Irides: Weekly patent litigation update - Read the latest edition of our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world.

• New UK data protection law - In this episode, Hannah Crowther and Jamie Drucker break down what you need to know about the UK’s new data protection law – the Data (Use and Access) Bill.
• Tesla v InterDigital & Avanci – jurisdiction in claims for ‘FRAND pool licences’ - In this episode, our competition lawyer, Francion Brooks , is joined by patent litigator, Richard Pinckney , to discuss the recent judgment in Tesla v InterDigital & Avanci which raises interesting questions of jurisdiction related to FRAND licences to patent pools.
• EU AI Act - impact on contracts and deals - In this episode, Camille Beckmann speaks to Anneke Pol and Vik Khurana (along with a special guest AI chatbot!) on how to structure contracts to comply with the new EU AI Act.

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