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Post Frequency: 1/day Last Entry: March 21, 2011 at 13:19:17 Recent Entries: 109
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Leadership liability: Protecting directors, officers from exposure to patent infringement damages
Posted on February 11, 2008Corporate officers and directors take note -- you may be held personally liable for inducing patent infringement, even when you are acting solely through a corporation. Although most patent infringement lawsuits do not name an individual officer or director as...
Court Finds Famous Foreign Trademarks Protectible
Posted on February 04, 2008One of the foundational principles of United States trademark law, as well as the law of most other countries, is that trademark protection is national in nature and does not extend beyond a country in which the mark is used...
Constitutional Rights and Digital Dilemmas
Posted on January 23, 2008Government attempts to commandeer encrypted passwords and to search laptops at border points raise a host of constitutional issues from self-incrimination to unlawful search and seizure. On November 29, 2007, in a case believed to be the first of its...
Bluetooth Blues for Nintendo and Sony
Posted on January 17, 2008Nintendo and Sony face a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Copper Innovations Group in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania based company filed a patent in 1996 for a "Hand Held Computer Input...
2007 - An Exciting Year For Patent Law
Posted on January 14, 2008The patent law and business communities spent much of 2007 waiting anxiously to learn whether the Patent Reform Act of 2007 would become law. We now know the answer - it will not. Though once again Congress has failed to...
Lord to Commoners: Copy Away!
Posted on January 09, 2008Our friends across the pond are considering a new proposal that would change the rules regarding the copying of movies and music. Specifically, the proposal would allow the copying of legitimately acquired music and movies between storage devices for "private...
Gambling with the Video Gaming Industry
Posted on December 27, 2007Antigua and Barbuda, small island nations known for their sizable online gambling operations, may be entering a new business: legalized piracy. (The Hollywood Reporter, "U.S. copyright waived in tiny nation") The World Trade Organization, which administers trade disputes between members,...
The Thin Digital Line
Posted on December 27, 2007The line between digital fantasy and reality is becoming evermore blurred, as evidenced by the recent arrest of a 17 year-old Dutch teen and the questioning of five others.[1] Using a phishing scam, the teens were allegedly able to secure...
Fans: Friend or Foe?
Posted on December 14, 2007In a time long long ago, fans of certain fictional worlds portrayed in games or on television were relegated to relative obscurity. User generated content was generally confined to a well-crafted Klingon warrior outfit, the occasional love sonnet written in...
Not So Fast on Granting Summary Judgment for Defendant in Trademark/Copyright Case
Posted on December 14, 2007Click here to view a PDF copy of the document....
United States Supreme Court To Clarify Patent Exhaustion Doctrine
Posted on December 13, 2007One of the most significant and closely watched business cases to be decided by the United States Supreme Court this year involves the over one hundred year old doctrine of "patent exhaustion" or "first sale." The case, Quanta Computer, Inc...
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When Government Inversely Condemns Property by Regulation, Magnitude of State Interest Has No Bearing Upon Just Compensation
The New Jersey Supreme Court recently decided a case in which a p...
When Government Inversely Condemns Property by Regulation, Magnitude of State Interest Has No Bearing Upon Just Compensation
The New Jersey Supreme Court recently decided a case in which a p...
Eminent Domain in China: Private property rights law opens the door to capitalism
by Priya Prakash Royal'The revision of the property law delivers a...
Property Owner Fights Zoners Over Planned Cross On Lake Michigan
Friday's Grand Haven (MI) Tribune reports that a St. Joseph, Michi...
Eminent Domain, Fifth Amendment Property Rights, and Government Retaliation
On June 25, 2007, the Supreme Court of the United States dec...
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How do i go bout geting a free laywer to sue the durham police department for drug raids and nothing is found?they have been in my house 4 or 5 times seems like every 4 months or so and breaking down my door tearing up m
They need a warrant to get into your house...if they never showed you one...you ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
What is comparative negligence and strict liability in tort law?
A. comparative negligence
B. seller sells to buyer
B. defense of ...
How to prove housing discrimination based on sexual orientation in student housing?
There are several things you can do. First of all, contact any welfare advisors,...
Enter your questionIf my Mother in- law added my husband and his sister to the title of her house, who makes the decisions on it?
Sorry, but there is no shortcut to this answer - you will need to consult an att...
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