Science, Computers and Technology Law

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B2B Exchanges: We’re Not Talking Bobkes Here

A business-to-business (B2B) marketplace or exchange is a service which matches buyers and sellers in a particular industry. Sales take place either through online catalogs posted by each supplier or through real-time Internet-based auctions. In ...
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Badmouthing on the ‘Net

Continued popularity of the Internet has led to "side effects" such as increased use of the web for unlawful and abusive conduct. Because web abuses are limited only by the boundaries of the human imagination, victims of and laws governing such ...
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Be Careful With Those End Of Quarter Deals

As several Wall Street Journal articles recently have highlighted, when pricing a deal near the end of a fiscal quarter or at the start of a new fiscal quarter, but before a company's 10-Q has been completed (or nearly completed), underwriters and ...
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Beware of Cyber-libel: If you wouldn’t say it in a newspaper, don’t ‘say’ it on the net

The number of persons accessing the Internet is increasing at a tremendous rate. As Internet usage expands, so do the accompanying legal issues. The law is evolving to catch up with this technology and many legal conflicts have yet to be resolved ...
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Beware the Digital Dos and Don’ts

Now that your company has been sued, what are you going to do? Notify your defense insurance liability carrier? Call your attorney? Shift your company's assets to Swiss bank accounts? Skip the country? After having considered all these ...
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Biting the Hand that Feeds: Can Telecommunications Competitors and Consumers Bring Antitrust Claims Based on Incumbents’ Non-antitrust Duties?

The telecom mess has gotten messier. Thanks to the ingenious efforts of enterprising class action lawyers, a split has emerged among three federal courts of appeals, further complicating the legal swamp created by the 1996 Telecommunications Act ...
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Bulletin, Bulletin, Bulletin: Chicago’s Daley Re-elected

Meanwhile, in a seemingly-unrelated story, on February 23 Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley was re-elected. So? Well, money managers and stock exchanges donated more than $90,000.00 to his re-election campaign. Eight of the money managers actually ...
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California Enacts Country’s Toughest SPAM Legislation

On September 23, 2003, the governor of California signed California Bill ALS 487, enacting what is now the toughest anti-spam legislation in the United States. The new law, to be codified as Section 17529 of the Business and Professions Code ...
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California Raises the Bar on Data Security and Privacy

California has recently enacted two landmark pieces of consumer rights legislation, each of which creates new burdens for companies doing business with California residents. The first, Senate Bill No. 1386 ("SB 1386"), requires any company that ...
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Caltech Antitrust Case by CLEC Against Pacific Bell Proceeds to Trial

Morrison & Foerster has been monitoring developments in an antitrust lawsuit filed by Caltech International Telecom Corporation (.Caltech.), a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (.CLEC.), against Pacific Bell. The case may have potentially ...
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