In a recent decision, a U.S. District Court set standards that would indicate what on-line activities would and would not constitute racketeering under RICO, th…
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in a case of apparent first impression, held that an email sent from the domain name of a co…
The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland reinstated the Maryland Commercial Electronic Mail Act (MCEMA), reversing a Circuit Court ruling holding that MCEMA vio…
The United States District Court for the District of Nevada granted Defendant Google, Inc.’s motions for summary judgment, finding Defendant did not infringe Pl…
In this patent infringement suit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit considered the question of whether a patent holder retained the sta…
The Federal Circuit denied a petition for rehearing en banc over the issue of what is required in the written description to justify a patent’s claims. Lizardte…
Plaintiff Shelly Landry-Belle sued defendant Various Inc., the operator of AdultFriendFinder.com and several other websites, after Landry-Belle’s ex-boyfriend p…
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, granted plaintiffs’ Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) and Entertainment Softwa…
The district court for the Southern District of Texas remanded this Internet libel action to state court. Plaintiff had originally filed suit in state court ag…
This case involves the GNU General Public License (GPL), which governs the use of many products sold and distributed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), incl…
Defendant Thomas Millot worked for Aventis Pharmaceuticals as a systems analyst in the company’s information security department. Among other duties, Millot wa…
This decision granted a motion by intervenor the United States to reconsider a motion to dismiss granted on December 21, 2004, in the United States District Cou…