Video Games & Interactive Entertainment

Our members advising within this dynamic industry are fully up to date on related developments and trends, including the role of  artificial intelligence and virtual reality as key enablers. Our firm is also an active participant in related events and conferences.

We offer advice and assistance on a wide range of topics that concern the video games and interactive entertainment sector, including:

• Registering, protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, including in the areas of e-commerce, consumer protection, advertising, audio-visual media law.
• Drafting and reviewing software development, consultancy, marketing, content distribution, licence and assignment agreements.
• Financing arrangements.
• Transactional and merger control assistance.
• Privacy and GDPR compliance.
• Antitrust matters.
• Litigation and dispute resolution.
• Employment and immigration issues.
• Tax considerations.

Our experience in the video game and interactive entertainment industry includes, among others:

• Representing a well-known international mobile games developer before the competent Cyprus Courts in a trade mark infringement action and successfully obtaining the first pan-European interim injunction issued by a Cyprus court in a trade mark infringement dispute involving EUTM rights.
• Assisting a video game developer in drafting software development agreements with external software developers, safeguarding our client’s rights to all commissioned copyright protected works.
• Obtaining clearance by the Cypriot Commission for the Protection of Competition regarding a transaction involving the purchase of a stake in an eSports organisation.
• Assisting an international retailer in the development of reward games app while being compliant with relevant privacy, e-commerce, consumer protection and lotteries legislation.
• Advising an international mobile games developer in a multijurisdictional copyright infringement dispute.
• Assisting in representing clients in proceedings concerning royalty claims.