Technology
Overview
Our Team
Our technology team, led by partner Thomas De Meese, comprises lawyers with a full range of specialties and skills. We are highly respected in the legal market and are recommended by various legal publications.
Our Services
We provide our clients with the full array of legal services for their technology business. Our experience includes software licensing and IT contracting, VOIP services, broadband, telephony and teledistribution services, social media, cloud computing, Top Level Domains, online ordering and sales platforms, apps development and licensing, use of (internet enabled) mobile devices, industrial design, privacy, and other technology-related issues.
Litigation Proficiency, to the Point Advice
We are trial lawyers first and foremost. When it comes to disputes, our lawyers have extensive experience in court, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. We understand how to present complex ideas in straightforward terms. Our first goal as litigators is to work with our clients to prevent disputes arising. Should it become necessary to take further action, our aim is to help businesses resolve disputes quickly and favorably.
Our team has been involved in a number of headline-grabbing cases in complex technologies over the past few years. Our litigation experience allows us to quickly grasp the technical issues that drive our clients businesses and to provide our clients with clear, concise advice.
Licensing
Crowell & Moring assists clients in drafting and negotiating clear and unambiguous license agreements involving a wide variety of technologies. We do so while ensuring adherence to internal protocols (which we help our clients establish) for efficiency and consistency across all company licenses and agreements.
We offer full-service assistance during the entire lifespan of the license deal, going from due diligence in the pre-contractual phase to how to resolve a license deal gone bad.
Regulatory
We counsel clients on all regulatory requirements applicable to their technology activities in Belgium and throughout the rest of Europe. This includes licensing requirements, data protection and retention requirements, contractual obligations and information requirements, numbering requirements and value added services, product liability, etc.
Our team’s experience in IP, competition law and market practices and consumer law is a crucial asset in providing our technology clients with accurate and comprehensive advice.
We regularly represent clients before all of the relevant courts and regulatory bodies.
Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.20.24
The EU AI Act and Obligations for Companies Operating in the European Union
In an era where regulatory landscapes are rapidly evolving, companies with a footprint in the European Union must stay vigilant and adaptable. The EU has recently unveiled a comprehensive set of guidelines that impose fresh obligations on both EU and non-EU based companies operating within its borders. This client alert is the first in a series designed to decode the complexities of the new EU regulations and provide actionable insights for businesses to ensure full compliance[1]. Stay tuned as we unravel the details of these pivotal changes and guide you through the steps your business needs to take to align with the EU's heightened regulatory standards.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 02.16.24
Client Alert | 7 min read | 06.22.23
Representative Matters
- Representing a major telecommunications services provider in an arbitration on the termination of a software development contract, followed by nullity proceedings against the arbitration award before the civil courts.
- Representing a Mobile Virtual Network Operator in a dispute and legal proceedings related to the termination of the MVNO Agreement.
- Reviewing an interactive platform service provider’s terms and conditions on IVR-, SMS- and iDTVservices.
- Drafting and negotiating service level agreements of internet extension operators with their technical back-end registry operators, registrars and their customers.
- Advising governmental authorities with requests for proposals and concession agreements regarding internet technology infrastructure and services.
- Litigation in relation to the acquisition by a cable operator of the TV business of several associations of municipalities.
- Assisting a mobile broadband access provider enter the Belgian market and provide mobile data services.
Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.20.24
The EU AI Act and Obligations for Companies Operating in the European Union
In an era where regulatory landscapes are rapidly evolving, companies with a footprint in the European Union must stay vigilant and adaptable. The EU has recently unveiled a comprehensive set of guidelines that impose fresh obligations on both EU and non-EU based companies operating within its borders. This client alert is the first in a series designed to decode the complexities of the new EU regulations and provide actionable insights for businesses to ensure full compliance[1]. Stay tuned as we unravel the details of these pivotal changes and guide you through the steps your business needs to take to align with the EU's heightened regulatory standards.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 02.16.24
Client Alert | 7 min read | 06.22.23
Insights
Professionals
Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.20.24
The EU AI Act and Obligations for Companies Operating in the European Union
In an era where regulatory landscapes are rapidly evolving, companies with a footprint in the European Union must stay vigilant and adaptable. The EU has recently unveiled a comprehensive set of guidelines that impose fresh obligations on both EU and non-EU based companies operating within its borders. This client alert is the first in a series designed to decode the complexities of the new EU regulations and provide actionable insights for businesses to ensure full compliance[1]. Stay tuned as we unravel the details of these pivotal changes and guide you through the steps your business needs to take to align with the EU's heightened regulatory standards.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 02.16.24
Client Alert | 7 min read | 06.22.23
Insights
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.20.24
The EU AI Act and Obligations for Companies Operating in the European Union
In an era where regulatory landscapes are rapidly evolving, companies with a footprint in the European Union must stay vigilant and adaptable. The EU has recently unveiled a comprehensive set of guidelines that impose fresh obligations on both EU and non-EU based companies operating within its borders. This client alert is the first in a series designed to decode the complexities of the new EU regulations and provide actionable insights for businesses to ensure full compliance[1]. Stay tuned as we unravel the details of these pivotal changes and guide you through the steps your business needs to take to align with the EU's heightened regulatory standards.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 02.16.24
Client Alert | 7 min read | 06.22.23
