Intellectual Property and Data Protection issues on insolvency

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Data protection and intellectual property assets

If most insolvency lawyers and practitioners were being honest, they would admit to generally avoiding matters of data protection and intellectual property as far as possible and passing these to their more specialist colleagues. However, the era has come where it is no longer possible to deal with any sort of trading insolvency or prepack, or even to advise most directors now without the requirement for some working knowledge in these areas. The notes in this subtopic aim to provide some basic information on these issues and to enable the reader to link to some more specialist reading on these subjects.

Intellectual property

Intellectual property issues that may arise on the insolvency of a company

For many businesses, intellectual property rights (IPRs) represent an increasingly valuable asset class. While modern technology businesses, pharmaceutical companies and industrial enterprises may be among those most synonymous with having portfolios of IPR-rich assets, even the most unlikely of companies may have rights which are intrinsic to them and without which they would be unable to operate (or to do so as efficiently or

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