time.lex for R&D projects
Research and development are the cornerstones of the information society. R&D projects always carry a certain degree of uncertainty: a continuing search for new solutions, new applications, new markets, and entirely new knowledge. Opportunities are often significant, but guarantees are few.
Apart from the technical challenges R&D projects often also involve legal difficulties. How will intellectual property rights be managed? Will a new initiative stand the test of privacy laws? Are there sector specific regulations? And how can the partners in a project contractually structure their collaboration?
Simply because of the innovative nature of R&D, it is often difficult to find a law firm that can give you clear and practical answers; there are after all often no precedents to lean on. You will therefore need a firm that understands your project, that will help you analyse it, and that can give constructive and legally reliable answers.
Time.lex has extensive experience in the legal support of R&D projects. Recent examples include:
- a European pilot project on the establishment of an interoperable system for identity management, in which time.lex is responsible for privacy and liability aspects;
- an international research project on the analysis of images via machine learning. In this project, ime.lex is in charge of ensuring compliance with intellectual property laws and licensing (both for the images and for the open source software components) and data protection;
- an international research project for the development of a Tokamak fusion reactor. Time.lex supported discussions on liability, property rights on joint developments and risk management.
time.lex is an ideal partner for the legal support of R&D projects. So that you can focus exclusively on innovating.
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