In 1999, Eolas Technologies sued Microsoft for patent infringement over its implementation of ActiveX. The Patent, No. 5,838,906t, owned by the University of C…
Brian Tyson shot and killed a drug dealer during a feud with local dealers in his neighborhood. Tyson claimed that he acted in self-defense. Prior to his tria…
Passport Entertainment, which produced and sold “The Definitive Elvis,” a 16- hour video documentary about the life of Elvis Presley, appealed a preliminary inj…
The Superior Court of California upheld the online posting of an image of the California coast line, including a view of the Streisand estate in Malibu, made fo…
Southeastern Wisconsin municipalities collect various data regarding properties located on their territory (address, owner’s name, the age of the property, its…
In 1999, Cremers, who was an operator of website Museum Security Network, posted an allegedly defamatory e-mail from Smith, suggesting that Batzel’s art work is…
WhenU.com, Inc. (“WhenU”) makes software that observes what web sites a consumer visits and what terms he or she searches for on the Internet. Based on those o…
On November 10, Judge John Walters of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California rejected a request by several domain name registration comp…
Research conducted by John Halderman, a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, on MediaMax CD3 copy prevention technology developed by SunnComm Technologies sho…
The Chamberlain Group filed suit against Skylink Technologies in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging a violation of…
The Ninth Circuit ruled that the FBI could not require a provider of a telecommunications device to allow the FBI use the service to listen in on customers in t…
EU Directive 95/46, the so-called Data Protection Directive, was promulgated by the European Union in 1995 to protect the privacy rights of its citizens by limi…