KG Legal will participate in OpenLivingLabs Day event hosted in Krakow, Poland from 29 August to 1 September 2017. The four-day event will be hosted by ENoLL member Krakow Technology Park – one of the key actors in co-creating and implementing the Regional Innovation Strategy and promoting smart specialization and user-driven innovation approaches in the region. The event includes interactive sessions, workshops, discussion panels with excursions and off-site visits with the aim of giving the participants a wider insight about models, theories and technologies related to Living Labs.
The development of electronic banking allows banks to create new opportunities for contact with the customers. However, the bank contacts the customer only when it is necessary, for example, to provide the customer with the information on the changes in costs, fees, commissions. It is required that the bank shall then use read only data media. Paweł Dyrduł, associate lawyer from the Polish law firm KG Legal Kiełtyka Gładkowski based in Krakow, discusses the problem of the interpretation of the term “read only data media”.
Siri, Cortana, Google and other applications use human voice to do a variety of things, e.g. searching for information, sending emails, calling somebody. Voice-based technologies are increasingly applied in legal environment and legal services, for example in legal advice rendered online and in legal translations. At the same time, new applications of innovative technologies caused the necessity to define the approach to privacy issues anew. The cases of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange showed us how meaningful privacy and its protection is and made us realize the excessive amount of personal data processed and stored daily. This is why privacy and its protection will soon become one of the most important personal rights. The issue of voice protection comes to the fore in this context. Voice is, obviously, a personal right. What is more, voice is becoming a tool used by most applications both for mundane activities as well as more complex ones, like ROSS AI operating on IBM’s Watson, which can do legal research and is learning to understand law with every research conducted by it. What if it was possible for such applications as Watson to use the voice of a specific lawyer and, with the use of voice sample, produce speech of a different content, for example in the form of legal advice? Well, practically it is possible, since last November Adobe presented Adobe VoCo to the world, which (when having a voice sample) is able to read various content differing from the conent sampled. The present article will try to shed some light to the issue of the risk involved with voice cloning technology in legal environment and will analyse whether law can adequately protect human voice as a personal right.
KG Legal participated in an online seminar organised by a specialist in software engineering for business information systems from Munich who operates within the program LEXALYZE (interdisciplinary research program). The seminar involved the recent solutions in legal tech area.
KG Legal was invited to IPLSRPING – a conference organised by American Bar Association. The IPLSPRING was held from 4 to 6 April, 2017 in Arlington. Some interesting issues were discussed during the conference, for instance preparing a patent for litigation before it’s issued or effective use of border enforcement mechanisms and blocking injunctions in the US, Canada, and the EU.
KG Legal is the member of the ABA, in the Intellectual Property Law section.
Hannover Messe takes place from 24 to 28 April 2017. German Chancellor and Polish Prime Minister opened the fairs. Poland is the partner country, therefore KG Legal develops cooperation with Hannover Messe exhibitors.
Besides legal services KG Legal participates in various IT industry events. That is why we visited Mobile IT 2017 fairs in EXPO Kraków on the 22nd February. Mobile IT are the largest fairs from IT sector in Kraków. The fairs featured the subject of e-commerce, mobile applications and new technologies. It was a great occasion to meet new people and establish business contacts.
We publish short videos and photos from event below.
Polish law do not fully take into consideration the pay-per-view services yet. There is no such term as “pay-per-view” in the Polish law. We should consider “pay-per-view” services as a programme within the meaning of the Broadcasting Law: shall mean a set of moving images with or without sound (audiovisual programme) or a set of sounds (radio programme) constituting, in terms of its content, form, purpose or authorship, an separate item within a programme service developed by the media service provider or a catalogue of programmes made available to the public as part of on-demand audiovisual media service, hereinafter the “catalogue”. This is the result of the implementation of the Directive 2010/13/UE, where the “programme” is defined as: a set of moving images with or without sound constituting an individual item within a schedule or a catalogue established by a media service provider and the form and content of which are comparable to the form and content of television broadcasting. Examples of programmes include feature-length films, sports events, situation comedies, documentaries, children’s programmes and original drama;
On the 1st July 2016 the Visegrad Patent Institute (VPI) began its activity. It was founded as a result of expanding cooperation between national offices of industry property of members of the Visegrad Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Republic of Poland, the Slovak Republic).
The beginnings
Visegrad Patent Institute is modelled on the Nordic Patent Institute, created in collaboration by Denmark, Iceland and Norway, which operates in a similar way. On 26th February 2015, in Bratislava, the representatives of the founding countries signed an agreement on the Visegrad Patent Institute. Then, after the ratification by all members, International Patent Cooperation Union acting on the basis of Patent Cooperation Treat under World Intellectual Property Office appointed Visegrad Patent Institute as an International Searching Authority (ISA) and International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA).
On the 2nd – 3rd March 2017 the third edition of the BIAT – Innovation and High Technology Lab will be held in Catania at “Le Ciminiere”. The event is organised by the Italian Trade Agency in collaboration with the Convergence Regional Governments and the town of Catania.
The event is dedicated to biotechnology, ICT and new technologies, which are the sectors of specialization of KG Legal. BIAT aims to promote innovative products and services from Italy by matching suppliers (start-ups, innovative SMEs) and demanding entrepreneurs (large companies, investors).The event will be attended by ICT companies from Convergence Regions (Campania, Calabria, Apulia, Sicily), international large companies, research centres interested in technology transfer and venture capitalists.
The main goal is to foster forms of international cooperation at various levels and the opportunity to matchmaking with other companies interested in running projects from IT sector. You can find list of projects at this link: http://innovationlab2017.ice.it/list-of-projects.
The information was prepared by Kamil Trzaskoś of KG Legal Polish Law Firm. KG Legal provides specialised legal assistance to IT, Life Science as well as investment processes in Poland and organises networking between Polish and international companies and research centres. See our specialisations
KG Legal will participate in OpenLivingLabs Day event hosted in Krakow, Poland from 29 August to 1 September 2017. The four-day event will be hosted by ENoLL member Krakow Technology Park – one of the key actors in co-creating and implementing the Regional Innovation Strategy and promoting smart specialization and user-driven innovation approaches in the region. The event includes interactive sessions, workshops, discussion panels with excursions and off-site visits with the aim of giving the participants a wider insight about models, theories and technologies related to Living Labs.
Visegrad Patent Institute
On the 2nd – 3rd March 2017 the third edition of the BIAT – 