David Bender, GTC Special Counsel, participated on PLI’s Privacy Panel on “Communications Law in the Digital Age 2016” on November 10, 2016 in New York City, addressing global privacy and data protection. Additional information on the program is available here.
Read more »David Bender, GTC Special Counsel, spoke at PLI’s Intellectual Property Law Institute conference on October 24, 2016 in San Francisco. He provided a complete analysis on privacy developments in 2016. Additional information available here.
Read more »GTC Law Group PC is pleased to announce that Rick M. Olin has become the neweset Member of the firm. Rick has been serving GTC and its clients since November 2012. Rick’s practice focuses on business and technology transactions, including M&A, licensing, strategic partnerships and other IP-centric transactions, and data privacy and security. Rick also serves as an outside general counsel and trusted business advisor to many of GTC’s technology and media clients.
Read more »Tony Decicco and Paul Jean spoke at the inaugural Black Duck Software “Flight16” user conference in Boston in October 2016. Tony addressed the legal/compliance track audience on the topic “Don’t Let Open Source be the Deal Breaker in Your M&A Deal,” and Paul participated in the panel discussion for the same group on thetopic “How to Talk to Senior Leadership About OS Security & License Compliance.” Finally, Tony participated in a panel discussion for the technology track audience on the topic “Birds of a Feather – Open Source Governance in 2016.”
Read more »By now you have been inundated with alerts about the new EU-US Privacy Shield and its availability as of August 1, 2016. Companies certifying compliance with the Privacy Shield can benefit in bringing EU-origin information into the US, but will increase their risk of enforcement actions if their US-centric policies do not meet EU standards. Whether the benefits outweigh the burdens is a question that can only be answered with specific reference to each company’s needs and practices. For many, a phased approach may be best; for others, immediate action may be indicated. For a more detailed analysis, see noted privacy expert David Bender‘s summary here. Let us explore the pros and cons with […]
Read more »EU-US “Privacy Shield” Is Open for Business But Is It for You? David Bender, Esq. Special Counsel, Data Privacy GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates https://gtclawgroup.com/portfolio/david-bender/ August 2016 Since 2000, the “Safe Harbor” program has provided a relatively painless way for US companies to acquire the personal information of European Union residents in compliance with the EU’s rigid restrictions on export of personal information. This program was created in 2000 by agreement between the US and the EU, and over 4,000 US companies participated in it. Many companies viewed it, hands down, as the best way to accomplish […]
Read more »GTC Law Group, one of the nation’s premier IP and M&A boutique law firms, announced today that David Bender has joined the firm as Special Counsel, Data Privacy. David comes to GTC with years of extensive litigation, counseling, and transactional experience in Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Information Technology. David co-founded the Privacy practice, and founded the IP practice, at White & Case, as well as headed that firm’s Privacy practice. David’s services include privacy audits to bring corporations into global data privacy compliance, vetting proposed conduct of multinationals to ascertain compliance with pertinent privacy laws, advising on cross-border data transfer, […]
Read more »Thomas Hemnes chaired a panel discussion at the 20th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium on Software IP (April 14/15, 2016) at the University of California Berkeley School of Law on the topic of empirical studies of the impact of IP protection on the computer software industry. Tom is a prominent Boston intellectual property attorney and an internationally recognized expert on intellectual property law. Tom has been recognized as a Distinguished Specialist Practitioner by the Solicitors Regulation Authority of the United Kingdom and is featured in the IAM Licensing 250 – The World’s Leading Patent and Technology Licensing Lawyers.
Read more »Thomas Hemnes and Sayoko Blodgett-Ford spoke at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) and Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ) Law & Tech Speaker Series on the topic, “Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — Time to Tame the Savage Beast?” Thank you Thomas Hemnes & Sayoko Blodgett-Ford, of GTC Law Group, for speaking at our Law & Tech Speaker Series. pic.twitter.com/n2QB09NdOI — BCLT (@BerkeleyLawBCLT) April 26, 2016
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