Science, Computers and Technology Law

This is FindLaw’s collection of Science, Computers and Technology Law articles, part of the Corporate Counsel Center Law Library. For related topics, see the Law Library’s Communications Law section. Here you will find a collection of articles dealing with everything from how to plan a successful law firm website to whether or not your employer can monitor your corporate email account. If you are looking for information on how to limit your firm’s liability risk of an employee’s misuse of the internet, we have that too. Articles below are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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IPO Participation Rights Could Be Wrong

To take advantage of escalating first day trading prices for many technology companies, venture capitalists often routinely seek initial public offering (IPO) participation rights as part of their pre-IPO investments. These participation rights ...
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Is The Internet Putting Your Corporate Identity At Risk?

With the Internet opening so many doors to the expanding global economy, your corporate identity may be more vulnerable than ever before. But with a proactive strategic trademark and domain name plan in place, you can remain one step ahead of ...
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Is Your Company Complying with South Carolina’s New Hire Law?

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 required employers beginning October 1, 1998 to provide the Department of Social Services (DSS) with certain information concerning new employees so that it can establish a ...
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Issue Four (Fall ’99)

Dear Clients and Friends, As I write this, the trees outside my office window are changing from green to gold. Somehow amazingly, autumn has arrived. It was one terrific summer! I coached by son's baseball team...enjoyed a peaceful vacation in Santa ...
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Issues Facing Technology Companies in Canada

After a dismal market for Canadian and U.S. technology companies from 2001 through 2003, 2004 demonstrated an improving environment in terms of both increased revenues and stock performance. Revenues generally grew among technology companies, but ...
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Issues in the Canadian Telecommunications Marketplace

For years, computer users have used their Internet service to implement a type of voice telephone service. Typically, it was a poor substitute for traditional voice telephone service. The quality of voice over internet protocol, or VoIP, calls was ...
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Jurisdiction in Cyberspace

Until the Internet's advent, a business operating within one state was subject to suit only in that state. Only a business developing a national or international focus had to assess the risk of becoming subject to suit in other states or ...
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Killing the Messenger: Pennsylvania’s New Child Pornography Statute is Aimed at the Wrong Parties

The "network of networks" that is the Internet has proven an incredibly powerful medium for the organization and dissemination of vast amounts of information in a wide variety of formats. For many users, the Internet is library, theatre, mall ...
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Labor & Employment: April 1999

Employees spend a significant portion of their day at work, and increasingly communicate by electronic mail, Internet or voice mail systems. Every employer, however, has heard stories about employees downloading pornography, e-mailing confidential ...
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Latest FCC Modifications on Slamming

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the fifth in a series of orders since 1998 modifying its rules relating to "slamming" (the unauthorized changing of a subscriber's telecommunications service provider). In the process ...
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