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Industry
Half the technology clients we advise do not describe themselves as technology companies. They are manufacturers, insurers, and hospital groups whose principal commercial asset has quietly become a dataset.
Sector contacts
We advise on technology transactions, intellectual property disputes, data protection, and export controls, for both established technology businesses and industrial companies whose products now generate and depend on data.
The questions that dominate this work are contractual rather than novel: what a counterparty may do with information supplied to it, what rights attach to a model trained on that information, and what survives termination. Most agreements still answer none of these clearly, and the ambiguity surfaces at exactly the wrong moment — during diligence, or after a supplier relationship ends.
What clients are contending with
Data supplied for one purpose becomes a model, a benchmark, and a product. Agreements written before that was foreseeable are being read against parties who did not intend it.
Where information may lawfully sit, and on whose infrastructure, now shapes product architecture as much as engineering does.
Trade secret exposure in this sector is rarely a single document. It is a team, and the response has to be fast enough to matter.
Practice Areas
Patent and trade secret disputes, licensing, and the agreements governing data and models.
Acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures, and the governance that has to survive them.
Internal and government investigations, enforcement defense, and the controls that prevent the next one.
Litigation and international arbitration in matters where the outcome changes the business.
Representative Matters
Three authorities, three timetables, and a screening system that had been correctly designed and incorrectly configured.
A competitor asserted seven patents and a trade secret claim. The case turned on what the accused instrument actually did during a two-second interval.
Speak to the firm
Describe the matter in general terms and name the parties involved. We run a conflicts check, usually within two business days, and a partner in the relevant practice will call you. The first conversation is not charged.