ROWAN LEGAL

Public Procurement, IT and Telco, Intellectual Property

Senior Associate

Samuel Král focuses his practice on legal advice in the areas of IT law, cybersecurity, intellectual property, franchising and general business-to-business contracts. His clients include Czech and international companies from the IT, online services, financial services and manufacturing sectors.

Samuel has extensive experience across the entire lifecycle of intellectual property within companies spanning various industries, including IT, electronics manufacturing, automation and robotics, game development, film and series production, as well as the production and sale of perfumes and cosmetics. In addition, he possesses broad expertise in IT and cybersecurity, covering areas such as copyright scope assessment and licensing audits (including OpenSource), drafting license agreements, preparing and reviewing contracts for the supply, development or servicing of information systems – including large projects worth billions. His experience also extends to cybersecurity audits and supporting the implementation of new legislation in this field.

Samuel is accredited by the Industrial Property Office to provide IP Scan and IP Enforcement services for the Ideas Powered for Business – SME Fund grant program.

He studied at the Faculty of Law at Charles University and in England. Professionally, he spent two years with the IP team at the international law firm Baker McKenzie and over four years with the IP/ICT team at Havel & Partners.

Samuel is a frequent speaker at local and international conferences and has authored several dozen academic and popular articles, mostly about IP law and cybersecurity.