Jonathan DC Turner
Barrister
Thirteen Old Square® Chambers
14 Old Square
Lincoln's Inn
London WC2A 3UE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7831 4445
Fax: +44 (0)20 7841 5825 mail@jonathanturner.com
I have acted in a wide variety of cases relating to IT and telecomms, involving
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intellectual property |
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competition and regulatory issues |
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data protection |
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contractual disputes and negotiations. |
Intellectual property cases have included
| domain name disputes such as fcuk.com, victor888.com, bernardmatthews.co.uk, arsenalfc.co.uk, KCTS.com, lanware.info, brahmakumaris.info, business.co.uk, bounce.co.uk, numberone.com, myspace.co.uk, wiseinsurance.co.uk, sussexsafetywear.com/co.uk, trucklife.com/co.uk, domainregistry.biz and many other cases |
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infringement of copyright in the use of photographs on the internet (Antiquesportfolio.com v Fitch) |
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passing off in relation to branding of ISP products (World Online v Iomart - Freedom 24) |
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false first-mover claims (Localtel v Greatxscape). |
I am also a WIPO and Czech Arbitration Court panelist for domain name disputes.
Competition and regulatory matters have concerned
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screen-scraping for price-comparison and service integration |
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restrictions on the use of GSM gateways |
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pricing of access to sports fixtures data |
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discrimination against parallel imports of computer hardware |
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the powers of electricity companies to provide telecomms infrastructure and services. |
In the field of data protection I have advised on
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the marketing of additional services by utilities |
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the export of data outside Europe |
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surveillance of internet usage by employees and |
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arrangements for market surveys. |
I have acted in many contractual disputes relating to the supply of computer systems, typically involving
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differences as to what requirements were specified |
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whether the requirements were met and |
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the validity of exclusion and limitation clauses. |
Other issues have included the scope of licences and the duties of website designers (Antiquesportfolio v Fitch). I have also advised in and conducted negotiations for substantial IT contracts.