In U.S.A. v. Thomas Michael Whitehead, Case No. 2:03CR53 (C.D.C.A. Sept. 19, 2003), the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California alleged that Whiteh…
Hyperphrase Technologies sued Microsoft for patent infringement of three of Hyperphrase’s patents relating to storage and retreival of information in computer s…
Geoffrey Davidian publishes The Putnam Pit, a tabloid and website that monitors corruption in Cookeville, Tennessee. Davidian lives in California but developed…
The District Court of Massachusetts denied plaintiff's motion for class certification in a copyright infringement suit by three freelance photographers agai…
On September 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a proposed consent order settling complaints with AOL and its subsidiary, CompuServe. The FTC had…
The plaintiff, a New York resident, brought claims under the Lanham Act, Clean Air Act, Kansas state unfair trade law, and common law negligence against several…
Michael Zurakov filed a lawsuit based on Register.com’s practice of initially pointing newly registered domain names to a “Coming Soon” Page, which informs Inte…
Several groups representing telemarketing firms sued the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. The suit cha…
William Bradley Jackson reported his daughter Valiree missing on October 18, 1999. Police soon suspected that Jackson was involved in the disappearance and obt…
The UK’s ASA is an independent self-regulatory body responsible for supervising the CAP Code as applied to the advertising industry. The CAP Code is written by…
Verisign and the Federal Trade Commission have reached a settlement stemming from charges that Verisign’s Network Solutions unit, the largest domain name regist…