Kathryn Rogers
Partner
I specialise in non-contentious commercial law, with a particular focus on technology and IP related matters. I enjoy getting to know more about my clients’ businesses and I find drafting complex contracts strangely rewarding.
The clients I work with include data management companies, investment managers, hosted service providers and digital media agencies and I also advise a wide range of corporate clients in other sectors with commercial contract requirements.
I enjoy coming to work every day because I’m a better lawyer than home-maker. My husband and daughter will attest to this!
It was rewarding to hear a client tell me: “It’s great having you on our team”.
Expertise
Commercial agreements
Software agreements
Service contracts
Standard terms/conditions of business
Intellectual property
Distribution
e-commerce
Competition
Agency
Joint ventures
Qualifications & memberships
Society for Computers & Law (London branch)Recent articles I've written:
- Brexit clauses – an update
- Post Brexit Border Issues – is tech the answer?
- Digital Services Tax: What is it? What will it mean for the UK Tech Industry?
- Distribution Agreements and UK / EC Competition Law
- Personal data use in marketing: a changing landscape
- Prices – new guidance on sales, promotions and price comparisons
- Future EU developments
- Just good friends? The status of app developer partners.
- Dealing with currency fluctuations in your contract
- Escrow Agreements – the basics
- A guide to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Part 5 of 5
- A guide to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Part 4 of 5
- A guide to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Part 3 of 5
- A guide to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Part 2 of 5
- A guide to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Part 1 of 5
- Brexit - technology
- Data protection
- Twitter, Facebook and others approve European Commission Code of Conduct on online hate speech
- High Court hands down a club to beat patent trolls with
- Anonymisation of data – could you still be in breach of data protection rules?
- Direct Marketing – Guidance on buying and using marketing lists
- The legal issues with running an advertising campaign
- Lease restrictive covenants held to be anti-competitive
- Native advertising – what is it and what are the risks to your business?
- Data Protection Compliance – more than just having a policy
- Data Protection Compliance – more than just having a policy
- Native advertising – what is it and what are the risks to your business?
- Rebranding – Benefits and challenges
- Rebranding - Benefits and challenges
- ECJ ruling encourages copyright holders to shoot the messenger
- ECJ ruling encourages copyright holders to shoot the messenger
- Cripps Pemberton Greenish's comment: Digital Marketing Magazine
- EU Data Protection Reform – Are we nearly there yet? In a word, no.
- Half price, and other marketing myths
- Charities’ use of technology and social media
- Data Protection Reform Update
- What is the point of a contract?
- Free isn’t always risk free
- The intangible elements of commercial contracts
- What can be done to stop internet trolls?
- Rihanna successful in Topshop t-shirt claim
- Exciting news
- The Advertising Standards Authority’s ‘Big 5’
- The legal and HR issues associated with ‘Bring your own device’
- Excluding the foreseeable
- ICO publishes data protection guidance for BYOD
- The dangers of widely drawn exclusion clauses
- Why exclusion clauses shouldn't exclude too much
- Notice provisions in commercial contracts
- Contract management, exit and TUPE transfers
- Contracts: dispute resolution and termination
- Graphing privacy
- An apple a day? New rules on food health claims
- New rules of Online Behavioural Advertising
- Percentage test does not work for assessing TUPE transfers
- Apple v Google (v the rest): how important are "ecosystems"?
- Placing Data on “The Cloud”
- Liability - How does it arise and how can it be limited?
- Registering Charges at Companies House: Update November 2012
- Amazon Kindles a row
- Passwords: cracking the code
- Risky communications during commercial negotiations
- Cloud Service Contracts – Best Practice
- Cloud Service Contracts – Best Practice
- The need for good faith in outsourcing contracts
- Twitter Joke Trial: what is a "menacing" communication?
- Is yours a winning app?
- "No derogatory links": Censorship? Or just lazy drafting?
- Legal Issues for App Developers
- Battle of the tablets: both sides win? Or both sides lose?
- ASA uses its power to ban a Twitter campaign for the first time
- Google Drive vs Dropbox: who owns your stuff?
- Back to back agreements
- Protecting a charity’s brand and reputation
- Breaching advertising guidelines? You’re not when you’re #spon
- When can you “reasonably” withhold consent in a commercial context?
- Talking Olympic advertising
- Photographic copyright: higher but wider?
- Olympic advertising ban: a pre-emptive ambush?
- Contractual Interpretation
- Laptop thefts and data protection
- Exclusion clauses and deliberate repudiatory breaches
- New top level domain endings
- Mistakes in tender documents
- Court of Appeal decision on economic loss
- The status of oral contracts
- ICO gives businesses a year to comply with new cookies law
- Death of the domain name?
- Cookies: the new regime
- Entire Agreement Clauses
- Court refuses to redraft a defective guarantee
- ‘Best endeavours’ versus ‘reasonable endeavours’
- Does consequential loss always include loss of profits?
- Registering charges at Companies House - changes ahead
- How distinctive is the App Store?
- Cookies and consent
- New rules on product placement
- Online paid for promotions
- Don't send a licence agreement to do a service agreement's job
- Bribery Act 2010 delayed (again)
- The Data Protection Act 1998
- Incorporation of standard terms
- Incoterms 2010
- Data protection: tighter rules on the way in 2011?
- Data protection penalties: the ICO bares his teeth
- Human Directors
- The risks of unsigned agreements
- Bribery Act 2010 & Corporate Hospitality
- Contract rectification
- New advertising codes
- Repeal of the Land Agreements Exclusion Order 2004 - Update
- easyDispute over trade mark
- "I have read, understood and agree to... unfair treatment?"
- When can a party terminate for late performance?
- Damages awarded for a loss of opportunity
- Settlement reached in the BSkyB v EDS case
- Contracts with consumers
- Shareholders’ Agreements
- Fraudulent Misrepresentations Made During Pre-Contract Negotiations
- Competition closed?
- Google’s “superphone”: who’s in control?
- Proposed changes to the law on bribery
- The cost of online privacy
- “Independently safeguarding” children’s websites
- Disclaimed?
- Vulnerability notified
- Chrome OS: the browser as operating system
- Getting the “red ink” out
- Tracking the terms
- How healthy are your software licences?
- Cancellation of Consumer Contracts
- Football League cries foul against BBC presenter
- Effective copyright: podcast link
- Effective copyright in a networked world
- SaaS and cloud computing: a low priority for 2009?
- An Open Platform – but read the small print
- Introduction
- Directors Duties - Conflicts of Interest
- Retention of Title Clauses