Intellectual Property Protection: Is Your Business Safe from IP Theft?
Intellectual property (IP) is the heart of the 21st-century company, an essential motor driving innovation, competitiveness, and the growth of businesses and the economy as a whole. According to the research conducted in the previous years by Ocean Tomo, the value of the intangible asset grew from 68% to 84% within just two decades – […]
Serbia Personal Data Protection Law: Are You Compliant 5 Years Later?
A rock star among legal documents, the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter: GDPR), which attracted enormous media interest and an unprecedented level of lobbying, started with implementation on May 25, 2018. GDPR introduced a complete transformation of understanding of the importance of processing and protection of personal data in the digital age. Although it is […]
Independent Contractor NDA – Better Safe Than Sorry
Hiring independent professionals, i.e., contractors for various projects or the provision of professional services seem like the best business model recently, especially in the IT industry. The reasons for establishing such cooperation are various, both for the clients and the contractor. Still, in comparison to the traditional ones, this type of business relationship can bear […]
Checklist If Your Employees Use Open-Source Code!
“I am a lazy person, which is why I like open-source, for other people to do work for me.” Linus Torvalds Never mind if you are just lazy or want to focus on creating innovations by the use of already established shortcuts, open-source libraries usually speed up and facilitate the development of software products in […]
Territorial Scope of GDPR in Serbia
On 25 May 2018, the GDPR entered into force. This means that from that date, compliance with its provisions is mandatory for natural and legal persons residing or established in the European Union. However, under certain conditions, GDPR in Serbia is also applicable to natural and legal persons. Given that the GDPR breach provides for […]
COVID-19 and Employee Data Protection: Answering Employers’ Dilemmas
Although the presence of the COVID-19 has become a part of our everyday lives, certain questions remain unclear in practice. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers are often facing situations in which their employees are COVID-19 positive. This challenge raises several doubts relating to the implementation of health protection measures in the workplace […]
Non-Compete Clause in Serbia: What You Need to Know
Our extensive experience has shown that the non-compete clause has become one of the most important topics and a “stumbling block” during numerous negotiations. That should not come as a surprise, as the absence of an effective non-compete clause can cause a loss of clients or an unexpected drain of manpower for an employer. On […]
The Law on Trademarks – Step Ahead into the Future
The current Law on Trademarks entered into force on February 1, 2020. It was expected that the changes made under the new Law should bring the national legislation closer to the European standards in trademark law. Aside from the novelties related to trademark proceedings (registration, renewal, etc.), the Law also introduced changes that, turns out, […]
Unfair Competition – From Prevention to Court Disputes
You surely do remember a period marked by news covers about “fake Plazma biscuits” after the suspect was arrested on suspicion of unauthorized possession of a biscuit production plant that was placed on the market under the brand of the well-known domestic producer “Bambi”. A certain time before that, we published a blog post about […]
Consumer Protection Law in Serbia: New Rules on Complaints & Disputes
In the past year, on September 19, 2021, the new Consumer Protection Law (hereinafter: the Law) entered into force, but its application was delayed for the next three months, until December 20, 2021. In our previous post, New Obligations for Traders = Justice for Customers, we have previously covered fresh legal concepts introduced for the […]