Employees and Intellectual Property: Risks and Workarounds to Protect Companies’ Intangible Assets (with Dr. Adi Gillat, Partner, H-F & Co.)
05/26/20 • 25 min
When security breaches make news headlines, they tend to be about nefarious hackers in another country or a catastrophic failure of technology. However, employees occasionally make mistakes that can pose grave dangers to the organization’s cybersecurity, from emailing valuable data to recipients to misconfiguring assets that enable unwanted access to company information.
Indeed, human mistakes reportedly account for one-fourth to one-third of data and intellectual property breaches within companies. The average cost of inadvertent breaches from human error is estimated to up to $3.5 millionannually; that’s without even including breaches resulting from employee willful misconduct. Many of the biggest breaches over the last decade would actually not have happened but for some form of human error.
Our guest, Dr. Adi Gillat, shares her experience related to security breaches, and to what extent intellectual property (IP) rights are at risk, particularly in the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted all businesses for the last few months.
Dr. Gillat has been an IP, IT, and privacy lawyer for almost 25 years, advising Israeli technology companies oncomplex tech transactions and compliance matters. Ranked among the top transactional IP lawyers in Israel, she is a founding partner at H-F & Co., based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and leads its IP, IT and Tech-Transactions practice. She is a licensed attorney both in Israel and in the U.S., where she previously practiced IP transactional and litigation law.
Every two weeks, on Tuesday, Brand & New gives the floor to inspiring individuals, with a 360-degree vision, to help brand owners, intellectual property lawyers, and marketing and finance professionals (and beyond!) stay curious and agile in an ever-evolving business environment.
Brand & New is a production of the International Trademark Association
Hosted by Audrey Dauvet - Contribution of M. Halle & S. Lagedamond - Music by JD Beats
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT INTA.ORG
To go further:
About Adi Gillat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adi-gillat-8a39371/
Also of interest:
- Harvard Business Review, The Biggest Cybersecurity Threats are inside your Company (link to https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-biggest-cybersecurity-threats-are-inside-your-company)
- INTA On-demand Webcast: Data Privacy 101—How to Ensure Data Protection and Enhance Brand Value in the Age of Data Privacy (link to https://learning.inta.org/products/data-privacy-101how-to-ensure-data-protection-and-enhance-brand-value-in-the-age-of-data-privacy)
- INTA Report: Recommendations to Enhance Brand Value Through Data Protection (link to: https://www.inta.org/Advocacy/Documents/2018/Recommendations%20to%20Enhance%20Brand%20Value%20Through%20Data%20Protection.pdf
- Infosecurity Magazine https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/employees-taking-data/
- Business Insights, Addressing Human Error causes Security Breaches (link to https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/addressing-human-error-causes-security-breaches)
- Forbes, Remote Work involves Cybersecurity Risks (link to https://www.forbes.com/sites/ca
When security breaches make news headlines, they tend to be about nefarious hackers in another country or a catastrophic failure of technology. However, employees occasionally make mistakes that can pose grave dangers to the organization’s cybersecurity, from emailing valuable data to recipients to misconfiguring assets that enable unwanted access to company information.
Indeed, human mistakes reportedly account for one-fourth to one-third of data and intellectual property breaches within companies. The average cost of inadvertent breaches from human error is estimated to up to $3.5 millionannually; that’s without even including breaches resulting from employee willful misconduct. Many of the biggest breaches over the last decade would actually not have happened but for some form of human error.
Our guest, Dr. Adi Gillat, shares her experience related to security breaches, and to what extent intellectual property (IP) rights are at risk, particularly in the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted all businesses for the last few months.
Dr. Gillat has been an IP, IT, and privacy lawyer for almost 25 years, advising Israeli technology companies oncomplex tech transactions and compliance matters. Ranked among the top transactional IP lawyers in Israel, she is a founding partner at H-F & Co., based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and leads its IP, IT and Tech-Transactions practice. She is a licensed attorney both in Israel and in the U.S., where she previously practiced IP transactional and litigation law.
Every two weeks, on Tuesday, Brand & New gives the floor to inspiring individuals, with a 360-degree vision, to help brand owners, intellectual property lawyers, and marketing and finance professionals (and beyond!) stay curious and agile in an ever-evolving business environment.
Brand & New is a production of the International Trademark Association
Hosted by Audrey Dauvet - Contribution of M. Halle & S. Lagedamond - Music by JD Beats
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT INTA.ORG
To go further:
About Adi Gillat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adi-gillat-8a39371/
Also of interest:
- Harvard Business Review, The Biggest Cybersecurity Threats are inside your Company (link to https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-biggest-cybersecurity-threats-are-inside-your-company)
- INTA On-demand Webcast: Data Privacy 101—How to Ensure Data Protection and Enhance Brand Value in the Age of Data Privacy (link to https://learning.inta.org/products/data-privacy-101how-to-ensure-data-protection-and-enhance-brand-value-in-the-age-of-data-privacy)
- INTA Report: Recommendations to Enhance Brand Value Through Data Protection (link to: https://www.inta.org/Advocacy/Documents/2018/Recommendations%20to%20Enhance%20Brand%20Value%20Through%20Data%20Protection.pdf
- Infosecurity Magazine https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/employees-taking-data/
- Business Insights, Addressing Human Error causes Security Breaches (link to https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/addressing-human-error-causes-security-breaches)
- Forbes, Remote Work involves Cybersecurity Risks (link to https://www.forbes.com/sites/ca
Previous Episode
The Life Sciences Sector in Times of Pandemic: Innovation and Public Interest (with Marc Holtorf, Partner and Emmanuel Gougé, Partner, Pinsent Masons)
News reports have never been as science-oriented as they tend to be these days due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Testing capacities, hospital medical equipment, potential treatments, and vaccine research are front and center, and it seems it is going to stay that way for some time given the direct and tangible stake that the public has in all those discussions. And as a consequence, pharmaceuticals and life sciences stakeholders—major intellectual property (IP) rights holders—are suddenly expected to deliver solutions to solve a major, worldwide health crisis.
Our guests today, Marc Holtorf and Emmanuel Gougé are partners at the law firm Pinsent Masons in Munich, Germany, and Paris, France, respectively. They both specialize in IP law, advising international companies on their IP management, development, and enforcement strategies. Mr. Holtorf has been working for the life sciences practice of international law firms for over 20 years, and he is now the Head of IP and Life Sciences for Germany at Pinsent Masons. Mr. Gougé also has over 20 years of experience as an IP attorney, with experience in the UK, Belgium and France, where he leads the Intellectual Property department.
They share with us their perspective on the very unique situation the life sciences sector finds itself into these days, in between the private market dynamics and the imperatives of global health policies and the public interest.
Every two weeks, on Tuesday, Brand & New gives the floor to inspiring individuals, with a 360-degree vision, to help brand owners, intellectual property lawyers, and marketing and finance professionals (and beyond!) stay curious and agile in an ever-evolving business environment.
Brand & New is a production of the International Trademark Association
Hosted by Audrey Dauvet
Contribution of M. Halle & S. Lagedamond - Music by JD Beats
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT INTA.ORG
To go further:
About Emmanuel Gougé (link to https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-gougé-043a974b/)
About Marc Holtorf (link to https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-l-holtorf-500aa9b7/)
Also of interest:
- MIT COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (link to https://innovation.mit.edu/cord19/)
- Pinsent Masons Analysis about COVID-19 Patents Rights and Public Interest (link to https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/analysis/coronavirus-patents-rights-public-interest)
- Forbes, Innovation Imperatives from COVID-19 (link to https://www.forbes.com/sites/henrychesbrough/2020/03/18/innovation-imperatives-from-covid-19/#6dbf48456fb1)
Next Episode
Supporting Businesses and Innovation in Times of Crises: IP Australia Case Study (with Michael Schwager, Director General, IP Australia)
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries worldwide have been implementing more or less stringent social distancing and lockdown measures, and the operations of intellectual property (IP) offices have been impacted just as any other businesses or institutions. Many IP offices around the world have implemented emergency policies to limit their services, and some even have shut down for the foreseeable feature. For companies and individuals with worldwide trademark or patent portfolios, now is a critical time to be aware of any changes that may impact their IP management strategies – for the best or the worst.
Our guest today is Michael Schwager, the Director General of IP Australia, based in Canberra. IP Australia is the country’s IP office responsible for administering IP rights, including trademarks, patents, designs, and plant breeder's rights applications. It was ranked in April 2020 in the Top 10 most innovative IP offices in the world, based on World Trademark Review’s analysis of 50 IP offices.
Before leading IP Australia as of September 2018, Mr. Schwager spent almost 13 years with the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science of the Australian Government, where he was in charge of what we would call today innovation policy—that is, developing and implementing strategies to foster an internationally competitive, innovative, and sustainable business environment in Australia.
Every two weeks, on Tuesday, Brand & New gives the floor to inspiring individuals, with a 360-degree vision, to help brand owners, intellectual property lawyers, and marketing and finance professionals (and beyond!) stay curious and agile in an ever-evolving business environment.
Brand & New is a production of the International Trademark Association
Hosted by Audrey Dauvet
Contribution of M. Halle & S. Lagedamond - Music by JD Beats
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT INTA.ORG
To go further:
About Michael Schwager (link to https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwags/?originalSubdomain=au)
Also of interest:
- Australian IP Office Website (link to https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au)
- United States Patent and Trademark Office notices about COVID-19 (link to https://www.uspto.gov/coronavirus)
- INTA’s 2020 Annual Meeting & Leadership Meeting Goes Virtual (link to https://www.inta.org/INTABulletin/Pages/2020_Annual_Meeting_Goes_Virtual_7510.aspx)
- INTA Daily News: Nurturing Innovation—IP Offices and SMEs (link to https://www.inta.org/PDF%20Library/2019Daily/2019DailyNews_Day1.pdf)
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