Be careful what you say on review sites, blogs and other commentaries appearing online. Attorney Stanley P. Jaskiewicz examines the legal implications of online business criticism, ranging from writing a book review to creating a domain name and Web site.
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Competitors are increasingly cooperating with each other to develop standards that will help their products interoperate. Though the benefits of such cooperation often outweigh any potential harm, the FTC may get involved if it perceives that such development activities harm competition.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced that its Peer-to-Patent program involving public review of patent applications over the Internet has helped it quickly reject claims that are obvious or not novel in more than a quarter of the pilot program’s applications.
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The State Bar of California’s lawyers-only Web site, CalBar Connect, provides attorneys with benefits while generating non-dues revenue from companies on the site. The site also holds out the promise of “affinity circles” — social networks for lawyers of similar interests.
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Cross-border discovery is a subject that the U.S. and the rest of the world do not see eye to eye on. Although litigants may obtain discovery from foreign parties in a U.S. court, some countries have “blocking” statutes forbidding their nationals from cooperating with U.S. discovery requests.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Issues of fact exist over whether a claimant’s bipolar disorder was properly classified as a “mental illness,” an appeals court ruled March 28, reversing a grant of partial summary judgment (Jane Fitts v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. 07-7097, D.C. Circuit; 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 6451).
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INDIANAPOLIS - An appeals panel on April 8 reversed summary judgment granted to a can manufacturer, ruling that a spray paint company may pursue its indemnity claim (Carl F. Fitz and Theresa Fitz v. Rust-Oleum Corp., No. 71A04-0704-CV-209, Ind. App.; 2008 Ind. App. LEXIS 705).
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PASADENA, Calif. - On April 4, the en banc Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a panel decision that roommate finder Web site Roommates.com LLC is partially liable for allegedly discriminatory content on its site because it developed the framework that allows users to screen prospective roommates by criteria, such as race, gender or […]
JACKSON, Miss. - A trial judge was not required to hold a hearing before excluding the plaintiffs’ engineering expert’s affidavit because the plaintiffs had ample time to respond to the defendant’s objections, the Mississippi Supreme Court held April 3 in a 5-4 opinion that reversed its prior decision in the case (Lanikia Smith, et al. […]
A disaster recovery site is a necessity to keep going in worst-case scenarios, but its cost makes law firms wary to implement it. A critical step in the initial disaster planning process is to educate management on multipurpose, co-location sites and get true buy-in for your proposals.
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