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This is FindLaw's Legal Technology Center's collection of Technology Law News articles. Information on cyberspace law, internet law, ecommerce, court decisions that involve technology companies and more is provided here.
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Panel discussion on net neutrality, exploring issues such as whether an Internet service provider can prioritize different bits of information and charge a fee for faster delivery, treating Internet providers as common carriers, and rate regulation. -
HP today announced that it has settled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation regarding the company's disclosure of Tom Perkins' resignation from its board of directors in May 2006. -
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community. -
If you're a Web provider, publisher, author, or developer and you peruse the popular press, your sleep is probably punctuated by kafkaesque nightmares in which legions of lawyers swoop down upon you in some sort of horrific CourtTV remake of The Birds -
Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today issued the following statement in response to a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against it by patent-holding company NTP Inc. The NTP lawsuit claims that certain Palm products infringe seven NTP patents. All seven of the patents asserted are being re-examined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and have been rejected by the re-examiners as invalid. -
The future of keyword advertising-and by implication, other forms of online advertising-was recently put in jeopardy by the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit decision, which reversed the lower court, now permits Playboy to pursue its trademark law claims against search engines for using software (adware) to key advertisements to Playboy trademarks without Playboy's consent. As there is little authority in this area of law, the decision served as a menacing warning to Internet advertisers which will continue to ripple through Internet law waters for some time. -
Access the internet; find it; download it; then modify it, use it, distribute it, and/or incorporate it into a product. Best of all, it did not even cost a penny! What is It? It is open source code; source code that is licensed to the user under certain terms and conditions, without the requirement to pay a fee for modifying, copying or distributing the source code. -
June 27 fetched two huge Internet law decisions: the U.S. Supreme Court's MGM v. Grokster decision and the Second Circuit's 1-800 Contacts v. WhenU.com decision. In copyright law, the Supreme Court held that conduct manifesting inducement of copyright infringement is sufficient to hold liable P2P Companies that distribute software used primarily to infringe copyrighted works. In trademark law, the Second Circuit held that using a website address to generate competing pop-up ads does not constitute a "use in commerce" sufficient to support trademark infringement. The words in these two decisions are likely to bleed onto the pages of copyright and trademark law briefs for some time-the rulings are that big. -
As technology companies become established and financially successful, it is not uncommon for smaller companies and individuals to allege that the larger companies have infringed and trampled on intellectual property rights during the rise to the top. -
Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP") is arguably one of the most important recent developments in telecommunications, yet is virtually ignored by current federal and state regulations applicable to traditional telephone service. However, the growing popularity of VoIP in both the private and business sectors (some analysts claim that VoIP will replace traditional telephone service for the majority of users by the end of this decade) makes it likely that VoIP will be subjected to at least some regulatory requirements in the future.