por admin | Abr 16, 2012 | Blog
IP rights at the University-who owns what? part I 1. Different scenaries. Depending on a country´s particular legislation, the regulation and therefore the situation in respect of research staff’s rights of ownership of Intellectual Property in Universities and Public...
por admin | Mar 19, 2012 | Blog
Until very recently, Spanish companies that wanted to process citizens’ Personal Data needed always their consent, except if said data were obtained from public sources. This is now changing. The Supreme Court has partially overturned said prohibition, included in the...
por admin | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
Spanish companies are more and more aware of the importance of their ‘know-how’. Especially medium-sized companies. It contributes to their way of working, of producing, of selling their products to the market, which is characteristic of them. It has been developed...
por admin | Mar 9, 2012 | Blog
After the European Commission, who did it in September 2011, also the U.S. Justice Department is now studying the relationship between Apple and five of the most important Publishing Companies: Simon & Schuster Inc, a unit of CBS Corp; Lagardere SCA’s Hachette...
por admin | Feb 27, 2012 | Blog
On the 31st December 2011 the Royal Decree-Law 20/2011, of December 30th, concerning urgent budget, tax and financial measures for the reduction of the public deficit was published in the BOE (Official State Bulletin). In this decree-law the private copying levy was...
por admin | Feb 20, 2012 | Blog
I. SPANISH COURT CLAIMS 1.-First level of protection: registered rights Spanish Law establishes a first level of protection: with respect to imitations of property registered intangible assets: or trademarks, patents or copy rights of registered software....