Google has announced a new advertising policy for pharmaceutical companies that presents significant issues and dictates immediate changes.  Effective July 20, pharmaceutical companies can no longer run pharmaceutical ads in the so-called “Black Box Ad Format” – a format that had previously been approved by the FDA.  Instead, pharmaceutical companies will now have to run

At the end of last month, the long-awaited judgment in the Interflora v Marks and Spencer case on trade mark infringement as it relates to keyword advertising was delivered by Mr Justice Arnold. The case dates back to 2008, when Interflora brought a case against Marks and Spencer for its purchase and use of the search terms “interflora”

At the start of this year, the second-largest French ISP, Free, took the surprising decision to release an update for its customers which allowed them to block third party ads if they so desired. Even more surprising was the fact that a total blocking of such ads was the default position created by the