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Do the rights to employee-created software belong to the company or the employee?

Posted on 10 Sep 201712 Sep 2017 by Fulvio Sarzana

The creation and transformation of software by companies (or by their employees) must be carefully regulated from the point of view of intellectual and industrial property, since the consequences of a written contract on the characteristics of a software can determine the loss of ownership of the computer program itself. The Court of Read more about Do the rights to employee-created software belong to the company or the employee?[…]

Can computer data be seized? The response from the Supreme Court of Cassation's Joint Sections.

Posted on 8 Sep 201719 Oct 2017 by Fulvio Sarzana

The United Sections of the Court of Cassation intervened in early September on the issue of evidentiary seizure of PCs and the difference between precautionary measures concerning computer data and those relating to the "container," or the computer itself that contains such data. The same ruling also includes a position taken by the Court on the validity of the precautionary measure. Read more about Can computer data be seized? The response from the Supreme Court of Cassation's Joint Sections.[…]

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