IP and Technology

As businesses and individuals have, whether they like it or not, grown increasingly more dependent on the use of electronic data networks to communicate and transmit data and information, the ability to control the flow of such data and information has grown increasingly more valuable and more critical. To individuals, for example, the ability to protect one’s personal privacy and…

On or about September 10, 2002, an action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against A. Diamond Production, Inc., d/b/a The Futon Shop (“The Futon Shop”), a California corporation, alleging, among other things, breach of contract and copyright infringement. The Complaint was later amended to include allegations of unfair competition. the Futon Shop was…

Advances in Internet technology have spawned a litany of self-published authors, most of them appearing in the blogosphere.  A blog (short for “weblog,” a web-based log) is a media platform, typically hosted on a website, where an individual may post writings, pictures, videos, music, and other content.  Using blogs, ordinary individuals are able to quickly and easily communicate with the…

I. Introduction: The Internet and E-Commerce The Internet is no infant, given its genesis in the electronic communication networks of government researchers and educational institutions in the late sixties and early seventies. No longer is the Internet just a way to send electronic messages and computer files to friends and colleagues, as it was at its inception. With the introduction…