Intellectual Property and IT

Whether advising a global flagship software company or IT start up, our IP/IT team has the skills and experience to provide comprehensive advice in the IP/IT field.

EXAMPLES

• Legal advice to one of world’s leading software producers on license and service agreements with public and private customers as well as IT procurement matters.
• Legal advice to SIA MZ Investments, SIA GS un SIA KP Investments on the sale of www.1a.lv e-commerce business in all three Baltic States to Kesko Senukai.
• Legal advice to Lattelecom in dispute with one of the world’s leading accounting software providers on intellectual property matters.
• Successfully serving as start-up counsel to a company engaged in development of payment software.
• Acting for a global pharmaceutical company in a significant patents dispute.
• Registration of a number of trademarks of consumer crediting companies in EUIPO and drafting of inter-group intellectual property rights use agreements.
• Personas data protection (GDPR) compliance advice to a number of online service providers, including digital marketing agencies, e-commerce platforms etc.

SERVICES

• Preparation of agreements and general conditions for software and hardware suppliers
• Drafting of IT procurement documentation (tender dossiers, draft agreements etc.)
• Software agreement localization
• Preparation or localization of licence agreements
• Preparation of outsourcing agreements concerning IT services
• Latvian and European trademark registration
• Trademark and patent disputes
• Advisory services on domain addresses, including domain protection and dealing with domain squatters
• Advisory services on legal aspects of conducting on-line activities particularly issues of copyright protection and unfair commercial practices
• Advice on personal data protection (GDPR) compliance matters related to online service providers
• Advice to cloud computing service providers, inter alia regarding transfers of personal data outside EU/EEZ