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Cases · Technology & intellectual property · Patents, trade secrets & technology licensing

Protect a domain, app or software from misuse

Someone abroad is copying or misusing our software. What can we do?

WONE Global uses app store and hosting complaints, legal notices and court action where the copying happens.

Countries in the typical case Australia · Indonesia

The situation

What is happening

Your software or app is cloned, scraped or misused abroad.

What is at stake

Copies take customers and revenue and can damage trust in the real product.

Who faces this

  • Corporations
  • Mid-sized companies
  • Founders and growing companies

A scenario

SaaS companyFounder-led company · from Australia · in Indonesia

It finds a cloned version of its product sold in Indonesia.

Where it ends The clone taken down.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “Cloned app”“Software piracy abroad”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global uses app store and hosting complaints, legal notices and court action where the copying happens.

Usually led by Trade marks, patents and brands, with Data protection and cyber and Disputes and arbitration.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Week 1Evidence.
  2. Week 1App store complaints.
  3. Weeks 2-6Legal action.
  4. ThenMonitoring.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Copyright, database and contract remedies
  2. 02App store and hosting complaints
  3. 03Court action where assets exist

Outcomes

What you receive

  • A rights assessment
  • Takedowns and notices
  • Enforcement action

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Services

The services involved

One area of expertise usually leads; the others move with it. WONE Global keeps them connected across every country involved.

  1. Usually leadsTrade marks, patents and brands2 markets with a named lead→
  2. Often involvedData protection and cyber2 markets with a named lead→
  3. Often involvedDisputes and arbitration5 markets with a named lead→

Who handles it

Trade marks, patents and brands, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. Australiain the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. Indonesiain the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. Poland WONE Global Partner Anna Pawlikowska · Partner Brief this Partner →
  4. Uganda WONE Global Partner Tony Galandi Kiire · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  5. India On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  6. Saudi Arabia On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  7. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  8. United Arab Emirates On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  9. United Kingdom On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  10. United States On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

Other markets: WONE Global covers 100 countries. Name yours in the requirement →

Anna PawlikowskaKraków · Poland

WONE Global Capability Partner · Poland

Anna Pawlikowska

Partner · Zacharzewski & Partners Law Office · Kraków

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WONE Global Capability Partner · Uganda

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WONE Global Capability Partner · Israel

Karin Horev

Founding Partner · Horev & Co. Law Office · Tel Aviv

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Dr. Silvia Patricia MaccariPalermo · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari

Lawyer · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Palermo

She is a lawyer, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She took his first steps in the nation's judiciary, in the National Labor Court, where he developed a rapid caree…

Andrzej ZacharzewskiKraków · Poland

WONE Global Capability Partner · Poland

Andrzej Zacharzewski

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Partner · Zacharzewski & Partners Law Office · Kraków

Attorney at Law. Co-founder of the law firm. Provides litigation services to banks and advises corporate clients in international trade. Supervises the work of the Litigation Department and the International Desk. Chair…

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