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Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer

Biden Administration Signals Reversal Of Delrahim Position on Standard Essential Patents

Biden Administration Signals Reversal Of Delrahim Position on Standard Essential Patents

Nestled within the Biden administration’s recent, sweeping Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy is a small, rather oblique paragraph that has garnered little attention to date. Appearing as Section 5(d), it urges the Attorney General and the Secretary of Commerce to “consider whether to revise their position on the intersection of the intellectual property and antitrust laws,” in order to “avoid the potential for anticompetitive extension of market power beyond the...

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Trump v. Facebook, Twitter and Google

Trump v. Facebook, Twitter and Google

I don’t know how much money Trump’s lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (and their CEOs) will help him raise, or whether it will gain him political support, but I do know one thing about these cases - they have no basis in current law. Of course it’s not outside the realm of possibility that Republican judges in Florida will see it his way, but it seems very unlikely. At issue is the infamous Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) - 47 USC Section 230. The relevant...

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Final Thoughts On Google v. Oracle

Final Thoughts On Google v. Oracle

At long last - after more than ten years, two trials and three appeals - the copyright lawsuit in Google v. Oracle has come to a close. In a surprise ending (given the emphasis on copyrightability for much of the case) on April 5, 2021 the Supreme Court held that Google's copying of 11,500 lines of code from Oracle's Java SE Application Programming Interface (the “Java API") and its use in Google’s Android mobile operating system was copyright fair use. A deeply disappointing ending for...

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Governo Law: Mass SJC Clarifies Chapter 93A in Cases of Employee Misappropriation

Governo Law: Mass SJC Clarifies Chapter 93A in Cases of Employee Misappropriation

Every Massachusetts lawyer that drafts a civil complaint wonders - or should wonder - “can I allege 93A in this case?” This law, M.G.L. c. 93A, is the Massachusetts unfair competition statute. It makes illegal “unfair and deceptive” acts and practices in the consumer and business contexts. The law is attractive to plaintiffs because it is one of the few state laws that provides the prospect of double or treble damages, as well as attorney’s fees.  What is “unfair and deceptive”? There are many...

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