From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Using Justia.com and RSS to Follow a Case in Federal Court

October 23, 2008

Assume you’re interested in Jones Day v. Blockshopper, pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Go to Justia.com and click on the link US District Courts’ civil case filings. You can search for the docket of any federal district court case to find the case in Justia. Justia follows the Jones

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Zotero Lawsuit Illustrates Conflict Between Open Source and Contractual IP Rights

October 21, 2008

The following is background that may be necessary for some readers to understand the issues raised in the Thompson v. Zotero lawsuit, discussed below. The Mozilla Firefox web browser (the second-most popular web browser, after Microsoft Internet Explorer) allows anyone with the talent and interest to develop “add-ons”. An add-on is a computer functionality that

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Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Ignorance is a Defense to the Federal Crime of Identity Theft

October 21, 2008

Today, the Supreme Court agreed to decide this issue: Whether an individual who used a false means of identification but did not know it belonged to another person can be convicted of “aggravated identity theft” under 18 U.S.C. 1028A(a)(1). The case involves an illegal alien who was prosecuted for use of false identity papers. It

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Looking for a New Job? How About Federal IP Czar?

October 20, 2008

So, you’re unhappy in your law firm job? Ready to move on to a job that has lots of responsibility but doesn’t require hourly billing and client headaches? A job that puts you in close proximity to the President and his closest advisers?  You’d like a job that provides security and good benefits? A federal

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Google Makes the Case for its Advertising Deal With Yahoo

October 18, 2008

Here’s an interesting web page from Google entitled Facts About the Yahoo-Google Advertising Agreement. There, Google “makes the case” for its proposed deal with Yahoo, which it describes as follows: On June 12, 2008, Yahoo! and Google announced an agreement that gives Yahoo! the ability to use Google’s search and contextual advertising technology through its

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The (now notorious) Sequoia Capital Slideshow – RIP Good Times

October 17, 2008

Hard times, hard times, come again no more. Many days you have lingered around my cabin door. Hard times, come again no more. Hard Times, by Stephen Foster, 1854 _______________________________ Sequoia Capital Slideshow – RIP Good Times – Upload a Document to Scribd Click here to read more about this presentation. Share This:TwitterFacebookStumbleUponDiggDelicious

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A Great UDRP Decision Search Engine

October 17, 2008

USpeakWeType Technologies, LLC has done the trademark bar a big favor by creating a UDRP search engine. This is the first time we have had access to the enormous volume of material that has been decided in the UDRP arbitrations. An example: assume that you are involved in an arbitration that has been assigned to

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"Brandsucks.com"

October 17, 2008

Did you ever wonder how many large companies register their own “sucks” domain names (as in “microsoftsucks.com” or “AIGsucks.com”) in order to prevent someone else from doing so? Like, some unfriendly nasty that wants to use the site to bash the company? How many “CIOs” (“chief information officer,” for the uninitiated; don’t blame yourself if

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Judge Gants' Decision in NERA v. Evans

October 15, 2008

One of the great benefits of the Suffolk Business Litigation Session (the BLS) is that the judges tend to write detailed opinions explaining their decisions. This tends to be less true elsewhere in the Superior Court. Recently-retired Superior Court Judge Allen van Gestel created a tradition of written jurisprudence while he headed the BLS, and

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