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Protecting
- Do you have flexible, robust licence agreements that reflect your business model?
- Do you maximise the revenue generating potential of your IT assets?
- Is your IT adequately protected?
- Are you fully informed about all of the intellectual property rights that are available to you?
Use the links on the left to find out more about Protecting IT.
Confidentiality
Keeping information confidential helps to prevent your competitors from becoming aware of your new ideas and getting to the market place ahead of you.
Further, certain intellectual property rights are destroyed if confidentiality is not preserved.
Read more...Copyright
The greatest protection that software benefits from is copyright. Copyright laws exist to prevent others from taking unfair advantage of the result of creative effort.
Read more...Database Rights
From 1998 a new right came into effect in UK, namely the database right. The aim of this legislation is to provide more certain protection than that already provided by copyright. The purpose of this new database right is to protect the investment in a database.
Read more...Escrow
Escrow arrangements for software are in common usage nowadays.
Typically they provide for a neutral third party to retain up to date copies of the source code so that if the supplier of the software materially breaches their obligations under an agreement, or fails to provide support and mai
Read more...Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual property rights - copyright, patents, trademarks etc - are relevant in the context of technology contracts for two main reasons.
Read more...Licence Agreements
A robustly drafted licence agreement is essential to ensure that whilst deriving maximum commercial gain from your software you protect all rights in your software and prevent any third parties copying or otherwise risking your ownership rights and on-going revenue streams.
Read more...Patents
Patent law affords protection for new, industrial applicable inventions. As with copyright, a patent is a personal asset that can be assigned, licensed or charged by way of a mortgage.
Contrary to popular opinion, software can be patentable.
Read more...Trade Marks & Goodwill
Trademarks can be registered or unregistered. Registered trademarks afford more protection to the trademark owner than unregistered trademarks. Ownership of registered trademarks only gives you rights in the territory where they are registered.
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