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Trusting Porsche AG
The Economist, Nov. 13th, reports that Porsche is refusing demands from the German Bourse to issue quarterly (not seminannual) reports. Porsche argues that rep…
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Forum Selection Clause in Clickwrap Software Licensing Agreement Upheld Where Software Was Bundled With Essential Services
Plaintiff Mortgage Plus, Inc., a Kansas mortgage lender, sought to utilize defendant's DocMagic, Inc.'s proprietary software and services to assist in t…
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District Court holds that fair use allows copying of computer source code to extract embedded data for the purpose of improving
Evolution, a Kansas software development firm, created software (PF32) for STSC, a predecessor in interest to SunTrust, a Georgia bank, and PAC, a wholly-owned…
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EDPA Allows Record Companies' Case to Go Forward With Limitations
The District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted a motion by the major record companies to subpoena the names and information of University of…
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Company Not Liable for the Unauthorized Spam of an Independent Promoter Marketing the Company’s Products
In September 2002, the plaintiffs received unsolicited email messages advertising software products of Redmond Venture, Inc. (Redmond). The plaintiffs brought…
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Sixth Circuit Orders Cybersquatter to Transfer Domain Name “ForADodge.com” to DaimlerChrysler under ACPA
Plaintiff DaimlerChrysler has been using the “DODGE” trademark in the automobile sales and service industry since 1924. In 1994 DaimlerChrysler began advertisi…
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Online Gaming Company Ordered to Transfer Ownership of “trumpice.com” to Donald Trump
Real estate developer Donald Trump filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center against Fountainh…
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Internet Archive's Web Page Snapshots Held Admissible as Evidence
The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit effort to preserve Internet sites and other digital media and make them available online. IA’s spiders regularly crawl…
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NPR on Peter Pan
NPR's All Things Considered recently broadcast a background story about JM Barrie and the Peter Pan stories. The broadcast is available for download here.…
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Red States Receive Wealth Transfer from Blue States
This may be fairly well known by now, but a quick review by my friend Jack Ayer shows that the Blue States subsidize the Red States. Comparing Fed expenditures…
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Chief Judge Babcock affirms rulings by Magistrate Judge Boland
Chief Judge Babcock today affirmed Magistrate Judge Boland's ruling in August in which he granted in part Plaintiff's 56(f) motion and denied the govern…
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Golan: Court affirms magistrate's discovery orders
Chief Judge Babcock of the District of Colorado affirmed Magistrate Judge Boland's previous ruling which granted Plaintiffs' 56(f) motion (in part) and…