Databases

Databases equals substantial investments.

In the “age of information” the compilation of data and databases stands for substantial investments for companies. The EU sui generis right protects the investments made by the owner and can i.e. be used to hinder the repeated use of extracts from a publicly available database. A database can even be protected by copyright if certain criteria are fulfilled. Databases with use restrictions could also gain protection by trade secret law if the database is kept secret to the public.

Gulliksson gives strategic advice to database owners helping them to safeguard IP-rights to their databases and building licensing strategies. We also help clients enforce database rights against parasitic behaviour by those who seek to misappropriate the results of the financial and professional investment made in obtaining and collecting data and information.