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Intellectual Property, IT & Personal Data

Protection and commercialisation of intellectual property, legal support for IT products, and personal-data compliance.

The IT, IP & Personal Data Practice team advises the modern economy on legal matters in intellectual property and technology, combining traditional legal expertise with a deep understanding of each client’s product and technology specifics.

For start-ups and IT companies

  • Drafting and reviewing documents for IT products and digital solutions (user agreements, offers, terms of service, B2B contracts and other documents)
  • Preparing agreements with developers (work-for-hire contracts, employment contracts, NDAs and other documents)
  • Investment round support (investment agreements, convertible loan agreements, options and other forms of fundraising)
  • Obtaining IT accreditation
  • Registering domestic software and databases with the Ministry of Digital Development
  • Legal matters for Skolkovo residents

Intellectual property

  • Commercialisation of intellectual property results (including software, literary, artistic, musical, photographic and audiovisual works, logos, know-how and other IP outputs)
  • Registration of trademarks, patents (inventions, utility models and industrial designs), plant varieties and integrated circuit topographies
  • Contractual work in intellectual property (licence agreements, exclusive-rights assignment agreements, commercial concession (franchising), work-for-hire and pledge agreements)
  • Protection of exclusive rights (litigation, pre-litigation work and monitoring of online infringements)
  • Establishing trade secret and work-for-hire regimes
  • Domain dispute resolution

Personal data

  • Drafting mandatory and supplementary personal-data documents (data processing policy, order appointing the responsible officer, consent forms and other documents)
  • Drafting personal-data documents for websites (privacy policy, consent to data processing, cookie consent, consent to marketing communications)
  • Engagement with Roskomnadzor, including filing notifications on personal data processing (registration in the operators registry)
  • Specialised personal-data matters (cross-border data transfers, processing of biometric and special-category data)
  • Audit of personal-data processing operations
  • Audit of websites for compliance with personal-data legislation

Our clients

Our core client portfolio includes IT companies, professional financial-market participants and real-sector businesses with a high regulatory and contractual load.

All clients

The LP team helps clients from every sector of the economy resolve legal matters of any complexity.

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