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By Jeff Pietsch

Last year, Google lost the first round of a court battle against Vulcan Golf, a golf club manufacturer, in a trademark and cybersquatting dispute. In that decision, the US District Court in Illinois ruled that Google could be sued for its role in serving ads on websites that use domain names that violate trademark and cybersquatting laws. In the latest round of decisions on this case, the court denied class certification damaging the plaintiffs’ hopes in prevailing in this matter.  

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By James Kachmar

          A California appellate court affirmed last month that an employer is entitled to immunity from tort liability for threatening emails sent on or through the employer’s internet/email system by one of its employees. On December 14, 2006, the Sixth Appellate District in the case Delfino v. Agilent Technologies, Inc., 2006 WL3635399, affirmed summary judgment in Agilent’s favor finding that Agilent, as an employer, was immune from tort liability under the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (“CDA”) for threatening emails sent and posted by one of its employees. This case, apparently one of first impression, extended the immunity protections of the CDA to cover corporate employers who provide their employees with internet access through internal computer systems. Employers thus have additional protection from claims that their employees have used the employer’s computer system to commit torts against third persons.Continue Reading Employers: You May Be Eligible for Immunity Under the Communications Decency Act

By: R. Todd Wilson

Early stage companies often hope to gain significant operational advantage by forming strategic alliances.#160 Such alliances may significantly accelerate the growth of such companies.#160 By collaborating to achieve mutual commercialization or implementation goals, the entities that form such alliances seek to maximize the value of each entity’s intellectual property in ways that, without such collaboration, would not be individually possible.Continue Reading Early Stage Companies and Strategic Business Alliances