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Where data meets IP – Derivative data in M&A transactions

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With the growth of the high-tech industry worldwide, it is no surprise that more and more transactions involve the transfer of rights to access or control data and derivative data. In our previous update we discussed protecting business data in a commercial context. In the M&A context, this valuable information is either the driving force of … Continue reading

Where data meets IP – protecting business data in a commercial context

By Imran Ahmad (CA), Nikita Stepin, Patrick Chou (CA) and Suzie Suliman (CA) on October 18, 2021 Posted in Data Transfer, General, Intellectual Property

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In our previous publication, we discussed how a business’ data can be protected by characterizing it as intellectual property and protecting it as such. One of the most common ways to protect business data in a commercial context is through license agreements that impose contractual controls on the scope of protection of such data, as … Continue reading

Where Data Meets IP

By Imran Ahmad (CA), Nikita Stepin, Patrick Chou (CA) and Suzie Suliman (CA) on September 27, 2021 Posted in Data Transfer, General, Intellectual Property

How do you balance sharing and protecting your business’ data? Unlike tangible assets, which can be protected primarily through physical means, intangible assets such as data require additional considerations. One key strategy to protect your business’ data is to characterize, and protect, that data as intellectual property. Data as IP Copyright Original compilations of data … Continue reading

Turkey’s data protection legislation on data controller registry to impact data controllers outside of Turkey

By Ekin Inal (TR) on August 20, 2019 Posted in Regulatory response

Obligations Turkey’s data protection legislation (TDPL) requires data controllers to notify the Turkish DPA of their processing activities. Unless exempt from the requirement, all data controllers (individuals and legal entities) who process personal data in Turkey must be registered with the Turkish DPA’s Register of Data Controllers Information System (VERBİS), prior to processing any personal … Continue reading

Dubai issues Open Data Law

By on March 3, 2016 Posted in Regulatory response

Dubai has issued a new law regulating the dissemination and exchange of data in the Emirate. This is one of the first open data initiatives in the Middle East and is being promoted by the Prime Minister’s office as a significant step forward in Dubai’s cyber legislation and smart city ambitions.… Continue reading

Challenges to banking and tech: data and cybercrime

By Rohan Isaacs (ZA) on October 16, 2015 Posted in Cybercrime, General

The proliferation of data gives rise to two challenges: Companies need to manage the vast amounts of data they now control and turn it to useful purposes. The availability of so much data has been an ideal environment for an explosion of various forms of cybercrime.… Continue reading