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Intellectual property and IT, Estonia

The main areas of our expertise include:

  • legal assistance on various intellectual property aspects of M&A and corporate structuring transactions, including intra-group transfers and other issues;
  • advice on the protection of trademarks, patents, industrial design, know-how, trade secrets and copyrights, including issues related to electronic commerce;
  • preparation of licence agreements and contracts on assignment of intellectual property rights and sale of products of intellectual activities;
  • enforcement of anti-counterfeiting measures and protection of branded products;
  • intellectual property due diligence.

Key team members:

Recent assignments:

  • Advising Ignite OÜ in drafting a software development contract, which provides a possibility to develop software by applying the agile methodology. The developed contract form is one of the first of this kind in Estonia.
  • Advising Titanium Systems OÜ in matters concerning intellectual property and software licensing at the local level and beyond Estonia, i.a. in drafting and negotiating a contract on transferring the copyright of web-based car rental software.
  • Defending and representing an accused in a pioneering criminal case concerning spreading of computer viruses and confiscation of a personal computer, which eventually reached the Supreme Court.

Our IP practice is highly ranked by the global research company The Legal 500 .

Tambet Toomela

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