Tomáš Chmelka

Email:
tomas.chmelka@havelpartners.cz

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Telecommunication

Tomáš Chmelka specialises in IT law, intellectual property and industrial property law, the law of contract, and international commercial law.

In IT law he focuses primarily on the legal aspects of the life cycles of information systems, web applications, mobile applications and other computer programmes. He also deals with domain names and domain-related disputes.

Tomáš has been involved in numerous complex cross-border projects entailing technology transfers, development, production and supplies of various products and computer programmes. He has participated in projects of private corporations as well as public authorities.

Besides graduating from the Law Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno, Tomáš majored in System Engineering and Informatics at the Brno University of Technology. He also studied at the Northumbria University in Newcastle, England.

Before joining Havel & Partners in 2017, Tomáš worked at a Czech law firm where he primarily focused on dispute resolution agenda.

Membership in professional associations

Czech Bar Association

Languages
Czech, English

Education

University of Technology in Brno, Faculty of Business and Management (2017), Ing. (Master of Science)
Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, Brno (2016), Mgr. (Master of Laws)
University of Technology in Brno, Faculty of Business and Management (2014), Bc. (Bachelor of Science)
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (2015), Erasmus+ programme

advising a multinational IT company on the implementation of information systems at Czech and Slovak banking institutions
advising a multinational retail chain on the implementation of several information systems
advising Czech companies in the development and launch of several online projects
advising multinational companies on unfair competition, protection of the corporate name and of intellectual and industrial property
conducting domain-related disputes on behalf of multinational companies
advising a global manufacturer of firearms on a technology transfer and on a configuration of their global distribution model
advising Czech and multinational companies in the engineering and automotive industries
advising an international lease company operating railway wagons
legal advice to a Czech company manufacturing railway wagons

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