{ "name": "Rules on selling a hardware company's records", "title": "Rules on selling a hardware company's records", "kind": "terms-board", "url": "https://sellhardwaredatatoai.com/datasets/hardware-wind-down-sale-rules/", "csv": "https://sellhardwaredatatoai.com/datasets/hardware-wind-down-sale-rules.csv", "markdown": "https://sellhardwaredatatoai.com/datasets/hardware-wind-down-sale-rules/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-28", "license": "https://sellhardwaredatatoai.com/terms", "headline": "14 rules that decide who may sell a hardware company's design and test records, with whose consent, and what export and personal-data rules go with them, each quoted from its text, read 28 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "14 rules that decide who may sell a hardware company's design and test records, with whose consent, and what export and personal-data rules go with them, each quoted from its text, read 28 October 2026.", "Where the rule applies, by rule: Great Britain 7 of 14, United States, federal 6 of 14, Delaware (where most US startups are incorporated) 1 of 14 (14 rules, read 28 October 2026).", "What the rule governs in a sale, by rule: whether handing the files to a buyer can be an export 6 of 14, who holds the power to sell the company's property 3 of 14, personal data inside the records 2 of 14, what counts as the company's property 2 of 14, whose approval a sale needs 1 of 14 (14 rules, read 28 October 2026).", "The rule in its own words, by rule: stated 14 of 14 (14 rules, read 28 October 2026)." ], "citation": "\"Rules on selling a hardware company's records\", updated 2026-10-28, https://sellhardwaredatatoai.com/datasets/hardware-wind-down-sale-rules/.", "national": { "n": 14, "unit": "rules", "documents": 14, "published_sources": 14, "named_sources": 14 }, "board": { "type": "clauses", "noun": { "one": "rule", "many": "rules" }, "document": { "one": "text", "many": "texts" }, "fields": [ { "id": "jurisdiction", "label": "Where the rule applies", "counts": { "us-federal": 6, "delaware": 1, "great-britain": 7 }, "values": [ { "value": "us-federal", "text": "United States, federal" }, { "value": "delaware", "text": "Delaware (where most US startups are incorporated)" }, { "value": "great-britain", "text": "Great Britain" } ] }, { "id": "governs", "label": "What the rule governs in a sale", "counts": { "personal-data": 2, "who-may-sell": 3, "what-is-property": 2, "export-control": 6, "consent-needed": 1 }, "values": [ { "value": "who-may-sell", "text": "who holds the power to sell the company's property" }, { "value": "consent-needed", "text": "whose approval a sale needs" }, { "value": "personal-data", "text": "personal data inside the records" }, { "value": "export-control", "text": "whether handing the files to a buyer can be an export" }, { "value": "what-is-property", "text": "what counts as the company's property" } ] }, { "id": "text", "label": "The rule in its own words", "counts": { "stated": 14 }, "values": [ { "value": "stated", "text": "stated" } ], "clause": true } ], "lead": { "type": "count", "field": null, "value": null, "n": 14, "of": 14, "label": "Rules quoted from the text" }, "vendors": [ { "name": "11 U.S.C. 332", "answers": { "jurisdiction": { "value": "us-federal", "text": "United States, federal", "documents": [ { "document": "United States Code, title 11, section 332", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/11/332?link-type=html", "value": "us-federal", "quote": "Sec. 332 - 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"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.33", "label": "22 CFR 120.33 (technical data)", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.56", "label": "22 CFR 120.56 (release)", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/schedule/1", "label": "Insolvency Act 1986 Schedule 1 (administrator's powers)", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/schedule/4", "label": "Insolvency Act 1986 Schedule 4 (liquidator's powers)", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/section/436", "label": "Insolvency Act 1986 s.436 (property)", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3231/article/3", "label": "Export Control Order 2008 art. 3", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3231/article/2", "label": "Export Control Order 2008 art. 2", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/c001/sc10/index.html", "label": "Delaware General Corporation Law, subchapter X (sale of assets, dissolution)", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679/article/6", "label": "UK GDPR art. 6", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/export-controls-dual-use-items-software-and-technology-goods-for-torture-and-radioactive-sources", "label": "GOV.UK export controls on dual-use software and technology", "license": "quoted for comment from the publisher's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" } ], "methodology": "Each rule's own statutes, regulations and official guidance on selling a company's assets, export control and personal data were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row). For every text, three questions were answered from its own words: where the rule applies, what the rule governs in a sale, the rule in its own words. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the text read does not address the question. A rule with several texts reads 'varies' where they disagree. 14 rules, 14 texts.", "embed": "
14 rules that decide who may sell a hardware company's design and test records, with whose consent, and what export and personal-data rules go with them, each quoted from its text, read 28 October 2026.
Rules on selling a hardware company's records, sellhardwaredatatoai.com
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