IP & Data Protection: What Do You Need to Know About GDPR?

Data Privacy is a cross-cutting matter applicable to all sectors, including IP. IP practitioners are daily confronted with the collection and handling of personal data – not always sure to handle them properly.

In addition, European practitioners will be soon subject to the new provisions of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) entering into force next year. This workshop aims to provide an overview of the relevant aspects of Data Protection for IP practitioners.

Anna Forestan is In-House Legal Counsel at Dennemeyer Group since 2014. After her admission to the bar in Italy she gained first experiences in law firms in Italy and Germany with focus on international contract law. As In-House Legal Counsel she specialized in contractual law applied to IP-related field and collaborated to Data Protection Project at Dennemeyer.