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Federal Circuit Again Addresses Patent-Eligibility Of Internet-Centric Claims
December 31, 2014
On Dec. 5, 2014, a divided Federal Circuit panel held that claims directed to systems and methods of generating a composite Web page combining certain visual elements of a "host" website with content of a third-party merchant were patent-eligible. However, the patent-eligibility of Internet-centric claims remains unsettled.
High Court Justices Gingerly Debate Internet Sales Taxes
December 31, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 8 scratched the surface of the looming battle over state taxation of Internet retailers and seemed troubled by what it saw.
Justices Gingerly Join Debate Over Internet Sales Taxes
December 31, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 8 scratched the surface of the looming battle over state taxation of Internet retailers and seemed troubled by what it saw.
Google Spars with Internet Users Over Privacy Before Third Circuit
December 31, 2014
Cookies are either a benign method for furnishing Internet users with relevant advertising or they are the foundation of a pernicious invasion of privacy, lawyers argued in front of the Third Circuit last month.
When Your Data Goes Viral: Insurance for Data Breaches
December 31, 2014
Data breaches are part of the technological age. Indeed, 2013 was dubbed the year of the "mega breach," and in 2014, as of October, there had been 621 publicly reported data breaches, exposing 77,890,487 records. In early October 2014, JPMorgan Chase reported a data breach affecting as many as 76 million households and 7 million small businesses, making it one of the largest data breaches ever reported.
When Your Data Goes Viral: Insurance for Data Breaches
December 31, 2014
This article explains the traditional insurance products that may provide a policyholder with insurance coverage for data breaches, and some of the newer products available to policyholders for these risks.
NY Court of Appeals Rejects Claim of Internet Jurisdiction
December 31, 2014
Long-arm jurisdiction over non-domiciliaries is an issue that continues to bedevil practitioners and litigants in the Internet age.
IP News
December 31, 2014
Federal Circuit Finds Internet Method Unpatentable Under <i>Alice</i><br>Federal Circuit: No Collateral Estoppel For Similar, But Unrelated, Patent
Ninth Circuit Arguments in <i>Innocence of Muslims</i> Case
December 31, 2014
Actress Cindy Lee Garcia's two-year quest to scrub the Internet of her appearance in the anti-Islamic film <i>Innocence of Muslims</i> was the departure point for roving arguments before an 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in December. The Ninth Circuit considered Garcia's claim to a copyright in her performance in the film and whether it warrants an injunction barring Google Inc. from hosting the video on YouTube.
Keeping an Eye on the Federal Trade Commission's View on Data Security Breaches by Companies
December 31, 2014
In recent weeks, the entertainment industry has been rattled by the hacking and public release beginning in November of a massive amount of internal documents and e-mails from Sony Pictures Entertainment. By mid-December, the incident had already generated several class action lawsuits, alleging negligence and violation of state statutes. But the frequent hacking of consumer information is a liability issue that entertainment companies must be prepared for, too.

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  • Private Equity Valuation: A Significant Decision
    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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