Technology eBulletin - May 2009

Technology eBulletin
May 2009
In this issue:
•Protect your business by blocking scraping
•Chasing the money...
•Keep your intellectual property safe in foreign markets
•DMH Stallard Corporate Review 2008 and 2009



Tel 01293 605018
frank.jennings
@dmhstallard.com

In these uncertain economic times, technology businesses are facing new challenges and new risks, protecting and valuing your intangible assets becomes increasingly important.

In this edition, we look at the problem of data scraping which affects many online businesses when information from the company’s website is systemically stolen and used to boost competing businesses. We also look at stemming liability for "consquential loss" in contracts and protecting your IP rights abroad.

DMH Stallard's Technology Group provides a complete range of intellectual property protection services. We are recommended in the leading Legal Directories Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 for our work in this area.

I hope you find this eBulletin useful and interesting. Please let me know if you have any suggestions about any other information that you would like to see in the eBulletin or any other way in which we can improve it. 

Kind Regards

Frank Jennings 
Partner
DMH Stallard
Tel 01293 605018 
Frank.Jennings@dmhstallard.com

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Protect your business by blocking scraping

Almost all online businesses with a large online presence and listings are targets of systematic data theft – commonly known as scraping, Web harvesting or Web data extraction. During these attacks scrapers systematically steal large amounts of...

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Chasing the money...

Most contracts are stuffed in a drawer after signature and only see the light of day again when things go wrong, and technology contracts are no different. At that point, everyone turns to the liability clause to work out how much it will cost them. ...

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Keep your intellectual property safe in foreign markets

First published in Sussex Enterprise's Business Edge magazine March 2009 There are many horror stories about copycat manufacturers stealing designs of products ranging from microprocessors to carpet patterns. ...

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DMH Stallard Corporate Review 2008 and 2009

Please click here for a review of the Corporate department's 2008 and 2009 Looking back on 2008 from the current perspective seems strange in many ways. We saw continued growth for many clients, supported by...

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