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Technology Breakfast Briefing: Making Yourself Attractive to Technology Investor (29 March 2012)
How do you position a growth stage tech company to be recognised as valuable to potential investors? What do these investors look for in a business? And just as importantly what should you look for in your investors?
All investors look for some form of return, understanding the structure of this return depends on the [… read more]
Technology Breakfast Briefing: Transferring Technology into Wealth (23 Nov 2011)
Event date and time: 23 November 2011, 0830-0945
Venue: 6-7 St. Johns Lane, London, EC1M 4AJ
Who should attend: the event is particularly relevant to CEOs, CIOs, FDs and COOs, directors, business owners and in-house lawyers at technology companies
Tech entrepreneurs occupy parallel tech universes. In one, huge profitless companies command massive valuations and attract large slugs of [… read more]
Copyright Reform and Cockney Silicon Valley
The founders of Google recently said that they could never have founded the company in the UK as the copyright laws are far too restrictive. David Cameron has taken this to heart announcing not only a planned shake-up of outdated coyright law but also the intention to turn the Olympic Village and parts of East [… read more]
Google law
The rise of Google has been well documented. Created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996 whilst the pair undertook PhDs at Stanford University, what started as a research project concerned with making search engines more efficient has now grown into a hi-tech behemoth with revenues in 2009 exceeding twenty three billion dollars.
Google’s core [… read more]
Ryanair wins domain name fight but not the battle
Nominet, the UK domain name registry has decided in favour of Ryanair in a case relating to the ihateryanair.co.uk domain name. The decision entails the transfer of the domain name from the registrant to Ryanair. Ryanair won because the registrant had made a small commercial gain from the website which, according to the Nominet expert, took unfair advantage of Ryanair’s name as [… read more]
Agile Software – new model contract now available
Agile Software – new model contract now available.
Domain Names, Trademarks and Brand Protection
Domain names and trademarks are obviously vital elements of brand protection. I have dealt with many cases where third parties have registered domain names which my clients feel should belong to them. These break down into three main categories, each of which requires a different approach.
i. Cybersquatters
This is the situation where the registrant has no legitimate [… read more]
Gathering Clouds – Transferring Personal Data outside the EEA
Whereas data protection is largely standardised in the EEA, data transfers to other jurisdictions may raise complex legal issues.
Family in battle over web address
An Edinburgh father who bought a website domain name for his son is facing a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis.
Richard Saville-Smith paid £70 for the name www.narnia.mobi so his son Comrie, 10, who is a CS Lewis fan, could use it for his e-mail address.
To view full news story [… read more]
Useless Disclaimers
Since Steve Jobs did not descend from the heavens to give the keynote at the Macworld conference last week, and the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas failed to reveal anything interesting (with the exception of a neat application called Songsmith from Microsoft), we can turn our attention to things that really matter. Like email.
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