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Inform IP, Technology & Commercial
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Welcome to this month's Inform: IP, Technology & Commercial
In this months edition we are pleased to announce the arrival of Nathalie Moreno to Speechly Bircham's IPTC group.
We also look at a number of key issues hitting the headlines, including how the European Commission has revisited the E-Signature legislation and we revisit royalty audits.
We have hosted the first two in a series of ten data protection focused webinars. You can view live recording of these webinars on our website and register for our upcoming webinars in the new year under the events section.
Robert Bond
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Nathalie Moreno joins Speechly Bircham's IPTC group
We are delighted to announce the arrival of partner, Nathalie Moreno, at the start of December. Nathalie joins us from the London office of Beachcroft where where she was a partner heading the international technology team. An international lawyer, Nathalie has extensive experience advising clients operating in the communications, e-commerce and information technology sectors in EMEA and globally. Before joining Beachcroft, Nathalie was Head of the Telecoms group at Freshfields Bruckaus Deringer. For more details and to view her full profile, please click here.
European Commission revisits E-Signatures legislation
Over a decade ago the European Union along with many other countries around the world predicted an upsurge in the use of technology in order to provide online identification and online authentication of people and messages. Read more.
Royalty Audits Revisited
In Licensing Agreements where the payment to the Licensor is in the form of license fees or royalties either as a fixed price per unit sold or as a percentage of "net sales" it is important in the current economic climate for Licensors to revisit the robustness of their audit clauses. Read more.
UK Courts permit injunction for breach of exclusive software distribution agreement
In the case of Talaris (Sweden) A.B. v Network Controls International Limited, 20 November 2008, the English High Courts granted an interim injunction in favour of Talaris against Network Controls in relation to its breach of an exclusive distribution agreement. Read more. |
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IPTC webinars - December 2008
We have a live recording of our most recent webinars. Our website contains the handouts, power points slides and the recordings, to view these please click on the relevant webinars below.
EU Data Protection Directive and local laws primer
Thursday 4 December 2008 - 4:30-5:30pm (GMT)
EU E-Privacy Directive and local laws primer
Thursday 11 December 2008 - 4:30-5:30pm (GMT)
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