MAGISTER LVCENTINVS TURNS 20

23-June-2014

The “Magister Lvcentinvs”, master of laws in intellectual property at the University of Alicante, celebrated on June 21 its 20th anniversary. This event was attended by alumni, such as two EMPS partners, Adrian Esquivel and Victoria Sofía Martin Santos, as well as by many personalities of the European IP world and representatives of organizations such as OHIM and WIPO. The celebrations for this master, one of the first programs to be offered in Spain and Europe in the field of IP, took place in the Real Liceu and the Real Club de Regatas in Alicante. The event was held immediately after ECTA, also held in Alicante this year, and attended by EMPS representatives as each year.

THE ECJ ENSHRINES THE "RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN"

03-June-2014

The European Court of Justice has issued a decision concerning the “right to be forgotten”, resulting from a prejudicial question made by the Spanish National Audience court in the course of a controversy between the Spanish Data Protection Agency and Google Spain. The judgment construes the Directive 95/46/CE on Data Protection and makes two interesting points: first, it declares that a search engine established in Spain must comply with local data protection regulations; secondly, and as a necessary consequence of the first point, it declares the search engine is responsible from the processing of personal data. This means that search engines must apply the users’ rights to oppose and cancel their personal data, as provided for in Spanish regulations, and that they are obliged to remove inadequate, irrelevant or excessive personal data upon the user’s request. 

 Read the decision in English here.